<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div>I will be helping with the testing of VV on my desktop (I need to replace the hard drive on it anyway so installing a fresh OS is not a bad idea). Of course, I will report the progress on the QA Tracker I just need to find the time to do that this week.</div><div><br></div><div>I will be pushing for more active QA testers on our social media channels and within my personal contacts. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Ali/amjjawad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amjjawad@gnome.org" target="_blank">amjjawad@gnome.org</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone,<br><br>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 :)<br><br></div>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. <br clear="all"><div><div><br></div><div>Why?!<br><br></div><div>Because:<br></div><div><b>ALL</b> of us are <b>smarter</b> than anyone of us.<br><br></div><div>That said, starting from the QA team of Ubuntu GNOME, I'd like to propose this:<br><br></div><div>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)?<br><br></div><div>Simply, this is not Ali-QA-UbuntuGNOME nor Tim-QA-UbuntuGNOME ... there 'must' be a 'team' and there must be a 'community' efforts.<br><br></div><div>What does that mean?<br><br></div><div><b>It means, QA team should have MORE than just one driver. One driver is not enough at all. </b><br><br></div><div>There is this team on Launchpad:<br><a href="https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnome-qa" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnome-qa</a><br><br><br></div><div>With 29 members:<br><a href="https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnome-qa/+members#active" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnome-qa/+members#active</a><br><br></div><div>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 ...<br><br>So, either we work as a team or we delete that team and there is absolutely no need to it. <br></div><div><br></div><div>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.<br><br></div><div>Reply to this email if you're interested. <br><br></div><div>More and further information can be discussed later with only interested and serious people.<br><br></div><div>NOTE:<br>This is not taking over the QA Team, this is an invite to share the burden and drive this team as a community/team. <br><br></div><div>Good night! <br></div><div><br>[1] - <a href="http://amjjawad.net/my-ultimate-goal/" target="_blank">http://amjjawad.net/my-ultimate-goal/</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Best Regards,<br></div><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad" target="_blank">Ali/amjjawad</a><br><div><div><b><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)">Remember: </span></b><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)">"All of us are smarter than any one of us."</span><br></div></div><br></div><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/OneStopPage" target="_blank">Ubuntu GNOME OneStopPage</a><br><span><div><div><div></div><div><a href="http://torios.org" target="_blank">http://torios.org</a> - <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StartUbuntu" target="_blank">StartUbuntu</a> - <a href="http://amjjawad.net" target="_blank">http://amjjawad.net</a><br></div></div></div></span><br></div><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME" target="_blank"></a></div></div></div></div></div>
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