<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Eric Hedekar <<a href="mailto:afterthebeep@gmail.com">afterthebeep@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Cory suggested on IRC that I write a quick proposal on this and run it by the list, so here goes (please offer any opinion you may have on the matter): I'd like to create an Ubuntu Studio Testers team on Launchpad. The purpose of this team would be to thoroughly test the development version of Ubuntu Studio. This team would help to solve a number of current testing issues/problems, they include but are not limited to: - No/small testing community. We currently only have a user and development community structure. This team would create belonging amongst testers which would likely result in more active testing (I've received a handful of direct e-mails re:testing Ubuntu Studio). People would have to actively remove themselves from the testing group to stop receiving notifications & e-mails, rather than just forgetting about their commitment. - No formal communication channel for testers. Currently testing results are published to the entire ubuntu studio development or users mailing list (inconsistent behavior) - there's no formal policy for how to report test results (other than ISO test results). This team would include a launchpad mailing list that would allow for questions on testing, testing coordination, discussion of test results, and subscription to the ISO build notifier, all without overburdening either the users or dev mailing lists. This would also allow for a larger number of testing requests without annoying our user base. - Lack of organized testing. We currently only have organized ISO testing. This team would be in charge of building a suite of tests for Ubuntu Studio and ensuring that they are met across releases, this includes notifying the developers should the tests fail. I would imagine this team could be used to follow important bugs, create testing scripts, and build wiki documentation on testing the software shipped with Ubuntu Studio. I'd be quite willing to create and lead this team, as well as announce it's creation on the ubuntu studio mailing lists, qa mailing list, and bugsquad mailing list. Essentially I'd like to create a means for Ubuntu Studio testers to work together more effectively. - Eric Hedekar _______________________________________ Vice President of Vancouver Pro Musica Society <a href="http://www.vancouverpromusica.ca" target="_blank">http://www.vancouverpromusica.ca</a> Ubuntu Studio Developer <a href="http://www.ubuntustudio.org" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntustudio.org</a> Web Designer & Audio Artist <a href="http://www.erichedekar.com" target="_blank">http://www.erichedekar.com</a> -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel</a> </blockquote></div> +1 from me. Anything that will improve testing is a good thing. I think that there are many people that want to help but do not have experience or knowledge to do it. This could provide a ready gateway for them to do so. They help us and learn in the process.