Amarok Testing (matej at laitl.cz)

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Matěj,

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Matěj Laitl <matej at laitl.cz> wrote:
> On 28. 11. 2012 Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>> I transferred the current Amarok tests to a spreadsheet from
>> http://community.kde.org/Amarok/Development/Testing. It is still WIP,
>> please feel free to add or remove tests that you see fit.
>
> What is a reason to do so? I must say I oppose such initiative, KDE Wiki is
> perfectly fine for such information IMO.

I think you misunderstand the reason I make a spreadsheet:

this is in no way to replace the wiki, but to make a testing document
available to testers, who currently don't have any such thing. I don't
know how you test software, but usually one needs a document to submit
with the results, and it is a very useful checklist when working on
tests.

> Google Docs is not our infrastructure, plus a document there cannot be "owned"
> by a community, but by an individual, and this just adds to fragmentation of
> information about Amarok. Furthermore you need a Google account to edit it,
> someone perhaps just doesn't want that. This is against many sane principles
> like keeping everything in one authoritative source etc.

The idea is to be able to help me make the spreadsheet, it will then
be saved in an open format and be available for downloads for testers.
Again, this is not a replacement for the wiki, but I don't know how
often you have made tables in a wiki: it is a hell of a PITA to do so
and I simply am not ready to invest my time in making tables in wikis
when a spreadsheet is the perfect way to do so
>
> Ideal state IMO is that all developer and user information is just in the
> source repository and KDE Wikis. (which we were close to)

The final version of the spreadsheet is Open DOcument format can then
be added to the source, but right now it needs to be made and I would
really welcome some help... if you were on IRC you would know what I
am doing right now and why...


Regards, Myriam
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