ISO Testing Feedback

[Nicholas Skaggs]

Greetings everyone! After each milestone I generally review everything 
that happened during the milestone, trying to understand how we did, and 
how it went for you as a community. The release team does the same, 
comparing how their team did on respins, communicaton, etc. However, 
especially given the recent confusion of cadence testing, and it itself 
being an experiment, I'd like to take a moment to specifically invite 
everyone to provide feedback on how iso testing has been this cycle, and 
in particular this last week. This is entirely open-ended, but I'll 
leave some questions for you to think about.

Did you find the testing itself easy to complete?
Was it easy for you to follow along with how the testing was going?
Did you have fun!?
Specific to the idea of "cadence testing" (that is, to test outside of 
milestone at regular intervals), did you find the testing useful or 
otherwise productive expenditure of our collective "time and effort" as 
a community?

I don't want to share too much of my thoughts so as to not influence the 
discussion at first. However, I will say it can be difficult to keep 
abreast of what's happening during the testing weeks as it is and that 
without the ability to use the isotracker effectively during a cadence 
week makes it even harder. During the cadence week, using the 
isotracker, people were lost as to what to do or the status of what was 
trying to be achieved. If we continue to aim for this type of testing, 
we'll need to expand the workarounds and ultimately enhance the 
isotracker to support the testing effort.

Nicholas

P.S. Just a quick note; I am always available for feedback or discussion 
in any manner you wish. Email, IRC, voice or google hangout, skype, 
whatever you wish. Any idea or topic is fair game. I'd love to hear from 
you!
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