Re: [tdf-discuss] QA - Bug Confirming: Volunteers required

Hi all,
On 17/04/2011 05:20, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi Steve, *,
>
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Steve Edmonds
> <steve.edmonds@ptglobal.com>  wrote:
> > How was the session on triage.
> "Failure" basically - (or also bad timing, as 3.4beta has not been
> available, and when it was, it turned out that it wasn't running /
> there were big problems installing it, so people stayed away)
Yes, and also localization period that for me prevent more 
participation. So next time, I need to better coordinate this with the 
development schedule.
> But that doesn't mean of course that it was in vain, just means that
> it can only get better next time :-)
yes :-)
> (and this time there were less than 20 unconfirmed bugs anyway, so it
> doesn't hurt much to not have lots of/any participants)
yes, that will serve to improve the process anyway
> > I suggest a latest working release
> > instead of a beta, I cannot afford my LO not to work as I need it every
> > day and are unsure if I can install a beta and a release copy at the
> > same time. I do not want to take the risk.
> Yes, I agree - fur the (expanded) purpose of verifying whether
> resolved fixed issues are actually working in the release, there
> should be a RC at least (or a version that can be installed alongside
> the stable version without "dirty tricks".
>
> But of course it is always hard to tell why people did not show up...
>
> For the next time, we must make sure that all people do know about it.
> I'm not sure whether people did read the announcements/were aware of
> it, so next time we should put a big note on the homepage and on the
> wiki, then this aspect is out of the question.
+1
> Or maybe people did join, waited a little and then left again without
> writing a word, because the channel itself was silent. So maybe a
> dedicated people being "rolemodels" might help. Or maybe give an
> IRC-Talk as introduction. (There were quite a few in the
> OpenOffice.org project, that I enjoyed very much, but unfortunately
> this all died when the person driving it (making a schedule, asking
> people to give a talk...) "vanished")
The irc talk introduction is a very good idea, that will fix a meeting 
point for people (you know with no deadlines...). Making 2 introductions 
to cover more time zone is also something to think about.

Kind regards
Sophie


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