https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57811
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Bug ID: 57811
Summary: Implementing volunteer testing tracking framework
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Extensions requests
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Implementing volunteer testing tracking framework
Wikimedia frequently deploys changes to software. It is always useful to test
features as early and thoroughly before deployment. Currently Wikimedia doesn't
have a proper process to communicate with volunteer testers and invite them to
test features. Sometimes the wikitech-ambassadors list is used, sometimes new
features run in beta and volunteers are invited to write up their experiences
on a talk page somewhere, but very frequently features are not announced at
all. The situation is complicated by the fact that the different Wikimedia
sites work in almost 300 languages with different fonts, different string
lenghts, different templates, different extensions, different CSS etc.
One way to solve this is to develop some tools and procedures to communicate
with prospective volunteer testers and to collect feedback from them, both
positive and negative. It can be a simple form that says: feature x, languages
XX, OK/FAIL. See an example from Fedora here: QA-L10N:nautilus test day. In
Fedora, the technical side of things is actually just a MediaWiki table. We
could just use that, or we could do something even better: maybe a MediaWiki
extension, or maybe even some non-MediaWiki-based technology.
In any case, an easy-to-understand workflow would be very important, even if
the technical tools are good, and writing these tools and procedures would be a
very useful contribution to the MediaWiki developers' and users' community.
--Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:36, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
URL:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Implementing_volunteer_testing_tracking_framework
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