sounds good, don't go over 12 hours though. it would be a good idea to have a google hangout set up for the hackfest.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Nicholas Skaggs < [email protected]> wrote: > On 03/14/2013 04:13 PM, Carla Sella wrote: > >> On 03/13/2013 11:41 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: >> >>> I know we're all knee deep in testing this week, but I would like to >>> talk about planning for our next hackfest. We've done 3 so far this cycle, >>> and I'd like to squeeze in one more if we can before beta2 testing. >>> >>> I'd love to hear preferred days/times, what you'd like to see covered / >>> format (IRC vs g+ vs ?), etc. I'd like to see manual and automated tests >>> being written and hacked on as part of the 'fest. Now is the time to get >>> your feedback in :-) >>> >>> To give you something concrete to work against, here's my thoughts on >>> how I would run the fest. >>> >>> We'll pick a 2-4? hour window on IRC on freenode in #ubuntu-quality >>> We'll encourage pending open bugs, aka, needed cases, to be try and >>> closed as part of the fest >>> We'll commit and merge everything possible at the end of the fest >>> We'll celebrate with virtual party supplies once complete :-) >>> >>> Happy testing, >>> >>> Nicholas >>> >>> >>> Hello, >> Well for me it would be better to hold the Hackfest at night after 20 UTC >> if it's during the week (I'm at work during the day :D ) or during the >> week-end in the afternoon (that is after 13 UTC). >> For the duration 4 hours would be nice, the longer the better. >> IRC or Google+ is the same. >> Bye. >> Carla >> >> In the past we've done all day, but I found that a bit confusing, hence > the specific timeframe. What if we had like a 12 hour window -- might that > work out a bit better? Sounds like IRC will work well also. We can generate > hangouts as needed. I setup this page to link everything since we're > expanding beyond the initial automated testing hackfests (yay!). > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**QATeam/Hackfest<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Hackfest> > > So I'd like to roll with Javier's and Sergio's idea. Can you guys setup > this page linking out to our TODO bugs, help target some and give a little > explanation (link out to tutorials, etc). Setup the page similar to the > hackfest for the automated testing (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/** > QATeam/AutomatedTesting/**Hackfest<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/AutomatedTesting/Hackfest> > ). > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**QATeam/ManualTestingHackfest<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/ManualTestingHackfest> > > I went ahead and tried to link in the new hackfest page ( > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**QATeam/Hackfest<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Hackfest>) > to the activities and contributing pages, but please feel free to edit the > wiki accordingly to get this content linked in properly. > > Finally, as to the date and time, how does March 19th 1200 UTC - 2300 UTC > sound? That covers pretty much everyone I trust at some point during there > waking hours, and lines up well for someone with expertise in each area to > be around (at some point!) for each type of test being contributed. > > If we don't get any complaints, I'd like to start broadcasting this > time/date tomorrow to everyone. Thanks! > > Nicholas > > > -- > Ubuntu-quality mailing list > [email protected].**com <[email protected]> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/** > mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-**quality<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality> >
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