<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>FYI</div><div><br></div><div>Stephen Michael Kellat<br><br><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Nicholas Skaggs <<a href="mailto:nicholas.skaggs@canonical.com">nicholas.skaggs@canonical.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> October 23, 2013, 2:36:46 PM EDT<br><b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com</a>>, "<a href="mailto:ubuntu-bugsquad@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-bugsquad@lists.ubuntu.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-bugsquad@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-bugsquad@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>A proposal to combine quality and bugsquad teams</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<font face="Verdana">Hello everyone! To the bugsquaders, my name
might not be too familar with you. I am the QA Community
Coordinator on Jono's team. My goal has been to help the quality
community succeed and do great things within ubuntu. It's been
wonderful learning and growing together over the last several
cycles. However I've not interacted much with the bugsquad during
that time because of the seperation between the QA team and the
bugsquad.<br>
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Historically the quality team and the bugsquad have been seperate.
Today I want to propose that we end that seperation. I would like
to adopt the bugsquad under the quality community team. I want to
encourage those of you who are in the bugsquad to consider some of
the new oppurtunities that are availible to the greater QA Team.
And for the QA team, I want to encourage us as a community to
learn more about bugs and take part in the tasks the bugsquad has
traditional held. For instance, triage activities and SRU's, bug
hug days, etc.<br>
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To help with this I've created a series of roles for the quality
community; <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Roles/">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Roles/</a>. For the tester
role, I've incorporated bugsquad activities in addition to the
traditional activities a QA team member could partake in. I feel
like the listed 'tester' role could be assumed by anyone today in
the bugsquad, but please correct me if I am wrong. We can
certainly define an additional role if it makes sense.<br>
<br>
Traditionally we as a quality community host a series of workshops
at the beginning of the cycle to help newcomers learn skills to
contribute to quality. </font><font face="Verdana"><font face="Verdana">I trust those of you who are veteran members of
the bugsquad might be able to bring us as a community up to
speed on how to be good triagers, and reporters, etc as part of
these workshops.<br>
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I would like everyone's feedback before I think too long about
the the implementation details. Simply put, as a quality team we
need to know how to be good bug reporters. And as testers we
have the skills needed to triage and verify bugs and fixes. I
think it makes sense to utilize the skills both teams posess and
combine them as part of the quality community.<br>
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What do you think?</font><br>
<br>
Nicholas<br>
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