On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 09:23:39 Myriam Schweingruber wrote: > > Is there some information source where potential Beta Testers can > > contact the Quality Team? If someone wants to do this, is there some > > formal way of getting involved? > > Well, the article says where: #kde-quality. Just getting in touch with > us is enough to join The topic of the channel tells all needed > information. > > > Where is the list of functional testing items? > > http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Testing/Beta#Upcoming_tests > > But we really want people to get in touch with us first, so giving any > more information is not a good idea, they can get everything needed > from us
Holding back information, or make it harder to find relevant information from my experience doesn't work. > > Are there times for the IRC training? How will people know when to show > > up? > > Still to be determined. Again, they need to get in touch with us first. Would be good if we could include those, the more concrete, the better. > > http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Building_An_Existing_Applica > > tion is more than I would recommend for "anyone who wants to get > > involved". Ordinary users are not Git-ing. > > Erm, we don't ask people to build from git, nor should they install > anything blindly, all necessary information on how to get a beta > version is here: > > http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Testing/Beta/InstallingBeta1 > > And to stress this again: they should get in touch with us first. We > need to know who is testing so we can coordinate, giving away those > links beforehand is not a good idea IMHO. Many people will be interested in seeing the list of things to test. Also, having a concrete list of items to be tested is more engaging than a vague idea. People will think "yeah, I can do that", rather than "probably out of my league", so adding links to these testing pages is a good idea. We can always mention that for valuable testing, things need to be coordinated. Imagine you're looking for a product to buy, and you find 20 possible dealers, half of them showing a price. Which ones are the ones who are ditched from the list first? :) Cheers, -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ Kde-testing mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-testing
