Fwd: Re: Helping to improve advertising of test days and other things

[Adam Williamson]

On 2012-08-22 19:18, Arnav Kalra wrote:
> Maybe you can try making a simple SQL database in which people post
> their results. It should have different tables for different test
> days. This would allow you to easily sort the data and would not be
> very difficult to implement.
>
> The advertisement part is easy to do but I think your main problem is
> collection of data and making that data easily accessible to users.

It...really isn't that simple, unfortunately. I wrote an overview a few 
days back on devel@, so I'll just link to that:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-July/170437.html

The 'edit your results into a wiki table' approach certainly isn't the 
perfect answer to managing test day results, but making it better is a 
more complex problem than it might appear. In practice, I don't think 
it's something that's a massive dampener on people's willingness to 
participate in test days, though we don't really have any evidence 
either way on that, so it all comes down to gut feeling...
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