Fedora 14 Schedule

[James Laska]

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 16:06 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 06/18/2010 03:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >> QA gang, any thoughts here?
> >>      
> > I'm not big on putting the Test Days into that schedule, I think the
> > current system works fine from a scheduling POV.
> >
> > I don't think having fewer Test Days would improve attendance. I think
> > people just show up to Test Days they're really personally interested
> > in, no matter how many there are. I don't think many people are thinking
> > 'well, I'd come out to all the Test Day events, even ones I don't care
> > about, if there were fewer of them!' That's just my gut feeling, though.
> >    
> 
> Similar to my gut feeling..
> 
> Perhaps if we advertise it more and increase the test period from a day 
> to a week we might get a better test coverage since testers might not be 
> available exactly during the test day's time and think to themselves hey 
> we just missed the test day so we wont perform those tests.
> 
> We could group more tests into a test week and advertise as a Fedora 
> test week and ask the testers to perform what ever test that interest 
> them from the list of tests we provide for the test week and we would 
> then gather the result in a weeks time instead of a day.
> 
> This would give both maintainers and tester a bit more flexibility 
> regarding the usage of their time instead of forcing them to bound to a 
> single day. They might only be able to spare an hour per day which would 
> only give us an hour for a test day but 7 hours of testing for a whole 
> test week.
> 
> If we want to improve test cover in general we might need to split tasks 
> amongst people. John and Linda take test a - c, Betty and Bertha test y 
> - z etc.

I've included the 'test week' concept on the recommendations page.  It
seemed to work really well with Adam's Graphics Test week, and probably
would have fit well with the Virtualization event.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_QA_Retrospective#Test_Days

Definitely an option to keep in mind when proposing F14 test days.

Thanks,
James
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