FAD for User Driven Testing

[Tom Callaway]

Recently, I threw out an idea on how we might be able to do "User Driven
Testing" with some new code on both the client and server side, to
leverage our existing userbase to test package updates.

I've documented the framework of this here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Driven_Testing

As Colin Walters pointed out "This needs to go through the Fedora Design
group.", and as Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote "I think it's big enough that
it would be worth organizing a FAD for.  It's
exactly the kind of 'infrastructure of participation' solution that
requires significant investment, but drives major change."

I agree whole-heartedly with both of them. So, let's do a FAD and see if
over the course of a few days (possibly as much as 5), we can hash out a
solid design and the basis of an implementation.

Schedule-wise, I'm looking at sometime between June and September 2010.
If you're interested in participating, please either reply here, or let
me know offlist. We'll figure out where the best location for this is
when we have an idea of who wants to participate. Also, if you want to
participate, but have specific dates which will not work, be sure to
state that too.

This isn't just for Red Hat folks either! If you want to help, please,
chime in!

Thanks,

~spot

[Steven M. Parrish]

On Wednesday 31 March 2010 02:42:56 pm you wrote:
> Recently, I threw out an idea on how we might be able to do "User Driven
> Testing" with some new code on both the client and server side, to
> leverage our existing userbase to test package updates.
>
> I've documented the framework of this here:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_Driven_Testing
>
> As Colin Walters pointed out "This needs to go through the Fedora Design
> group.", and as Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote "I think it's big enough that
> it would be worth organizing a FAD for.  It's
> exactly the kind of 'infrastructure of participation' solution that
> requires significant investment, but drives major change."
>
> I agree whole-heartedly with both of them. So, let's do a FAD and see if
> over the course of a few days (possibly as much as 5), we can hash out a
> solid design and the basis of an implementation.
>
> Schedule-wise, I'm looking at sometime between June and September 2010.
> If you're interested in participating, please either reply here, or let
> me know offlist. We'll figure out where the best location for this is
> when we have an idea of who wants to participate. Also, if you want to
> participate, but have specific dates which will not work, be sure to
> state that too.
>
> This isn't just for Red Hat folks either! If you want to help, please,
> chime in!
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~spot
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Count me in.  Anytime is good for me with enough notice to get the time off.  
For location I vote Raleigh since its home for me. -)

Steven

[Mel Chua]

> > Schedule-wise, I'm looking at sometime between June and September 2010.
> > If you're interested in participating, please either reply here, or let
> > me know offlist. We'll figure out where the best location for this is
> > when we have an idea of who wants to participate. Also, if you want to
> > participate, but have specific dates which will not work, be sure to
> > state that too.

This actually strikes me as a cool thing that Campus Ambassadors could 
do to kick off the school year - maybe do a first FAD during the summer 
(June-Sep) to get a first round up and going, and then student groups 
can pick it up immediately afterwards (in September, say) and say "okay, 
cool - let's try this out as a way to get new contributors on our 
campuses started!" and have people in the background hacking on code 
and/or docs more if needed.

Campus Ambassadors, for context, the discussion is from: 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/fudcon-planning/2010-March/000603.h...

--Mel