Exploring Ask ubuntu for quality!
Nicholas Skaggs
nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com
Wed Dec 19 22:47:15 UTC 2012
I should mention, if we have any askubuntu gurus in the community,
please speak up and help guide all of us in this endeavor (me included!).
Nicholas
On 12/19/2012 05:45 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
> I'd like to propose all of us as a community embrace Askubuntu as an
> outlet for getting help and asking common questions about quality and
> testing. The past couple cycles we've spent ensuring our wiki area
> became more and more of a resource for understanding and providing
> help getting started. However, the wiki is not able to be interactive,
> which is why we have things like the mailing list and the irc channel,
> as well as social media, the forums etc.
>
> Although irc, mailing lists, the forums, etc can be interactive, these
> mediums are not good places to store and retrieve information. In
> addition, we have new and expanding knowledge barriers with autopilot
> tests, autopkg, and the expansion of manual testing and cadence weeks.
> It is my hope that having ask ubuntu as an outlet to ask questions and
> get answers and personalized help and feedback in the ever changing
> quality world. The upside is that unlike IRC, mailing lists (to some
> extent), and forums, etc, this feedback is naturally collected,
> sorted, and moderated on ask ubuntu. This should allow the questions
> and answers to complement our documentation and wiki pages.
>
> Now I am by no means an expert at the site, but I started by creating
> a "quality" tag that we can utilize to ask, tag, and find posts
> pertaining to quality. I'll be watching this page, and ask ubuntu in
> general to answer any questions that pop up.
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/quality
>
> Feel free to post some questions (and answers!), and give some
> feedback on what you think about using askubuntu. When you post,
> simply tag it quality (http://imgur.com/JDFk0) to make sure it shows
> on the filter tag page for each general browsing by the rest of us.
>
> Ohh, here's some example questions I thought might be useful for
> asking / answering. Note, I've haven't yet asked/answered them (yet!),
> but I would encourage you to feel free to write good questions and
> answers to these and other questions you may have! NOTE, you can ask
> and answer your own question for the purpose of distilling information.
>
> What is . . .
> the qatracker?
> cadence testing?
> smoke testing?
> milestone testing?
>
> How do I . . .
> test a piece of software that has a 'call for testing' event?
> see a list of testcases available for a package?
> see a list of testcases available for an image?
> test an image of ubuntu?
> participate in cadence or milestone testing?
> contribute a new autopkg testcase for a package?
> contribute a new autopilot testcase for a package?
> contribute a new manual testcase for a package?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nicholas
>
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