Re: New Desktop Testing team

[Luis Villa <luis tieguy org>]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:09 AM, API <apinheiro igalia com> wrote:
> From: Luis Villa <luis tieguy org>
>
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Ara Pulido <ara ubuntu com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > We are proud to announce that a new GNOME team has been created, focused on
>> > desktop testing automation.
>> > If you have ever wondered how could you test your application writing
>> > scripts that mimic what a normal user would do, join us in this new effort.
>> >
>> > We have a mailing list [1], a wiki page with documentation[2] and a SVN
>> > module [3] with the initial work that we have done, but we need more people
>> > to get involve to make GNOME better and better.
>> >
>> > Please, join now the GNOME Desktop Testing team!
>> > Still not sure? Here [4] you will find a small how-to on how to run the
>> > available examples. Just give it a go!
>>
>> This is really terrific news! Has been needed for a long time.
>
> So the idea is add this Team to the current "Testing" section on GNOME Live?:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/JoinGnome#head-5fe33d37a35959b484d52ee0fb0d6d642d3730d1
>
> Probably a good idea, could be a kind of integration with build-brigade, if
> possible (although I don't know if possible, I miss some information).

Integration with build-brigade would be terrific. I did some work on
automating the use of 'make check' in the build system ages ago, but
for a variety of reasons it never took off. If something similar were
to happen now that would be a huge boon for the project.

Luis