[jokosher-devel] The new testing and quality assurance team!

[Laszlo Pandy <laszlok2 gmail com>]

**See the bottom for the time and date of the testing team meeting and 
Gstreamer debugging tutorial**

After many bug filled releases I have decided that it is time to put 
some processes in to make sure we don't do anything stupid for the grand 
1.0 release. To prevent all the bad stuff from slipping through, a new 
testing team will be created.

The official title is the "Testing and Quality Assurance Team" and 
offers for membership are being extended to *any* member of the 
community. All you have to be able to do is run Jokosher and write on 
the wiki if it works or not. Obviously we would like you to do more than 
that if possible, but no programming skills are required (just testing).

Here are the responsibilities of the testing team:
 * Make a large checklist of everything that should be working for the 
next release.
 * After each beta release go through the checklist and make sure 
everything is working.
 * Prioritise bugs in the bug tracker. Small bugs that ought to be 
fixed get lost because other big important bugs take too long to 
implement. Make sure the devs know where the concentrate.
 * Constantly harass the developers until the priority bugs are fixed. 
This is a perfectly legitimate way for someone on the testing team to 
get the bug they hate most fixed.
 * Help me (and possibly other devs) implement automated testing. 
Basically I need to sort through the large checklist and see which parts 
can be easily automated.

Pecisk has been given the position of leader of the testing team, but 
anyone else can join. You will need a userdocs.jokosher.org account, and 
possibly a wiki account, which you can ask us for on IRC. Also I can add 
you to the jokosher-bugs team on launchpad so that you can modify bug 
details.

The testing team will have its first meeting to figure out what needs to 
be done, and who should do it on Sunday, June 10th at 16:00 UTC. 
Following the meeting will be a Gstreamer debugging tutorial so everyone 
can get experience tracking down the nasty gstreamer bugs.

Laszlo