[Attention] Ubuntu GNOME QA Team

[Tim]

On 18/12/14 06:14, Bruce Pieterse wrote:
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> On 12/16/2014 04:23 PM, Ali/amjjawad wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm going to send this 'before' starting any blueprints for 15.04 cycle. This is part of a plan [1] I have in mind for Ubuntu GNOME as a
>> whole but let's start from one of the most important parts, that is QA :)
>>
>> Long story short, the model of one-man-task is simply (at least IMHO) a key to failure while the model of community and team-work is simply
>> (again, at least IMHO) a key to success.
>>
>> Why?!
>>
>> Because:
>> *ALL* of us are *smarter* than anyone of us.
>>
>> That said, starting from the QA team of Ubuntu GNOME, I'd like to propose this:
>>
>> Instead of one-man take the burden of this team on his shoulder, why not more are involved (phase 1)? and why not the whole team is involved
>> (phase 2)?
>>
>> Simply, this is not Ali-QA-UbuntuGNOME nor Tim-QA-UbuntuGNOME ... there 'must' be a 'team' and there must be a 'community' efforts.
>>
>> What does that mean?
>>
>> *It means, QA team should have MORE than just one driver. One driver is not enough at all. *
>>
>> There is this team on Launchpad:
>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnome-qa <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntugnome-qa>
>>
>>
>> With 29 members:
>> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnome-qa/+members#active <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntugnome-qa/+members#active>
>>
>> I see no logical reason why there is only one man handling most if not all the main tasks within this team? it means there is something wrong ...
>>
>> So, either we work as a team or we delete that team and there is absolutely no need to it.
>>
>> If the choice is mine, I'd step in and share the burden and move forward with 'better' quality. Having everything between one-man-hands is
>> just not right. I could write a long list of reasons but I'm 100% sure I don't really have to as I'm 100% sure you all can understand and
>> figure out what I'm trying to explain here.
>>
>> Reply to this email if you're interested.
>>
>> More and further information can be discussed later with only interested and serious people.
>>
>> NOTE:
>> This is not taking over the QA Team, this is an invite to share the burden and drive this team as a community/team.
>>
>> Good night!
>>
>> [1] - http://amjjawad.net/my-ultimate-goal/
>>
>> -- 
>> Best Regards,
>> Ali/amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad>
>> *Remember: *"All of us are smarter than any one of us."
>>
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>> http://torios.org - StartUbuntu <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StartUbuntu> - http://amjjawad.net
>>
>>
>>
> Hi Ali,
>
> I don't mind stepping up for QA Acting Team Leader. If you have any notes/resources to share with me that goes into a cycle, please do share.
> I'm also helping out with testing and bug triaging as well now.
>
> As a new comer to the entire QA process, information currently seems scattered and I ideally would like to document the entire cycle process
> for QA (without duplicating any thing that is out there already) in one or few pages for anybody that would also like to participate in the QA
> process specifically for Ubuntu Gnome.

There is plenty of documentation on the actual testing, but I don't think there is anything relating to the overall QA process, partly because
so far the QA team hasn't participated in much apart from testing and/or me Ali have been doing them. Obviously there is more to it than just
testing though!


>
> Thanks
> -- 
> All the best,
>
> Bruce
>
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