[Kde-accessibility] Testing plan

[David Bolter]

Henrik,

Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:

> David Bolter wrote:
>
>> We are happy to add authors to:
>> http://larswiki.atrc.utoronto.ca/wiki
>
> Perhaps you should consider opening it up as an actual wiki. I think 
> that would encourage more people to contribute. I'm involved in 
> running several Moin wikis and we really don't seem to have any 
> problems with spam and such. You might open up most of it and leave a 
> few pages with tighter control for more official stuff.
>
>> I'm not sure what is best in terms of coalescing all this related 
>> information. It seems that many distro's, companies, and some 
>> applications have their own location for documentation and bug 
>> reports, test suites, and forums. It can be detrimental IMO.
>
> Yes, I agree. Though some of the information like test results are 
> distro specific. I wouldn't feel comfortable about dumping all our 
> Ubuntu-specific ramblings on the Lars wiki and all our bug reports in 
> the Gnome bugzilla. That would probably just annoy those hosting the 
> sites.
>
>> I'm not exactly sure what function the larswiki should serve and we 
>> are open to suggestion from the a11y community.
>
> Is there any chance we could all set up shop in a common location, 
> like wiki.a11y.org, say? We could have wiki.a11y.org/lars, 
> wiki.a11y.org/gnome, wiki.a11y.org/kde, wiki.a11y.org/ubuntu for the 
> things that need to be separate and then the root location for common 
> stuff. There would be advantages to


I really like this idea. One question regarding scope... I notice your 
examples are linux specific. Do you also envision things like 
wiki.a11y.org/windows or wiki.a11y.org/java or wiki.a11y.org/airlines?

> working in the same physical wiki in that we would see the changes 
> various people were making on a daily basis and could move common 
> content around. We were planning to develop our own content a bit more 
> in our own wiki, and then move the bulk of it on to a dedicated site 
> like access.ubuntu.com, but I am happy to recommend that we go with a 
> common site instead.
>
> It feels like esp. now with this push to introduce ODF in MA by 
> 01.01.2007 that this is the time to band together and push things 
> forward :)  Thoughts?
> (I'm CCing the KDE list as well, which I'm not subscribed to ATM. Hope 
> it gets through)
>

The sentiment is excellent.

> - Henrik
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