RFC: the draft of new i18n test day page

[Ani Peter]

Hi Tagoh,

On 02/15/2013 09:03 AM, Akira TAGOH wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm sending this mail to share it and a future plan for
> that, also asking for comments if any.
>
> * Background
>
> The amount of the test cases are growing up every time to
> cover more and more. that's basically good to make sure no
> regressions. though the human resources are limited so some
> test cases might needs to be cleaned up, polished, or
> integrated if possible.
> That said, current page[1] is being messed up due to this
> and is hard to obtain the necessary information and
> interests, what languages we've tested and what languages we
> have issues. this is relevant to what languages the
> community would support in a certain release. which we
> aren't explicitly saying anything so far and possibly giving
> different result per releases due to the resource
> limitation.
>
> * Proposal of changes
>
> I want to update it to the language-based matrix instead of
> tester-based. you can find the draft page out here:
>    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tagoh/Draft/I18n_Test_Day
>
> This would makes more visible to see the above interests.
>
> * Future plan
>
> I eventually want to use this matrix to indicate certified
> languages list on a release once we have enough tester
> resources and test cases. I think that would helps for
> people who are looking for their language support in
> Fedora. also helps to improve the quality of the release,
> if, for instance, we can add sort of `90% of cerfified
> languages in previous release at least needs to be passed
> all of testing' to the release criteria.
>
> Though I don't mean this should be applied with this
> proposal at the same time. it's just an rough idea yet for
> long-term plan and guess there may be someone who disagree
> with it :)
>
>
> Anyway, any comments are welcome!

Really appreciate your proposal. But there is a concern here: On test 
day, when all testers access the page [1]  simultaneously, it would 
again increase the load to that page. This will result in testers facing 
difficulty to update the wiki page with the results. ie, the same 
problem we face in [2]. Infact, the new language matrix implemented from 
Fedora 18 [3] was introduced to eliminate this load on the main test 
page on the test day.

Maybe, it would be a better idea to distribute the load by providing the 
test cases for each package on different pages and later collect all the 
test results in a report format similar to Fedora 18 report [4] ?

Thanks


[1] - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tagoh/Draft/I18n_Test_Day
[2] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-09-18_i18n
[3] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-09-28_l10n#Test_Matrix
[4] - 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FLTG/Reports/Test_Day_Reports#Fedora_18_Test_Day_Report


>
> [1] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-09-18_i18n
>
> --
> Akira TAGOH
>
>

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