Hello there

[Mark Berry]

Ok,

I appologize ahead if I am not reading something, or if your repeating 
instructions you already gave me.  I am just trying to get the process 
down of what I should be doing to help, as to not waste valuable testing 
time.

I have built a bleeding edge version of KDE out of CVS and have it 
running in a second X term (yay).  I have the khtmltests module checked 
out, and now I am sorta lost on what I should do next. 

I have an account setup on bugzilla, and I have been spending a bit of 
time reading other various reports trying to get a feel of what style is 
used when posting a bug.

I am not sure what I am supposed to be doing now though ;-/ .   Should I 
pick a bug, such as :
  
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33903


Now , I pop open the bug.. and it looks like it's very complete.  A test 
case is already completed and various people have already commented on it. 

Should I be looking for newer bugs, such as :

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76811

I hope I am not sounding too pushy by asking for explicit direction on 
where my time is best spent.  I haven't much experience yet working with 
Open Source projects of this size, and just want to make sure that my 
time is very well spent and productive.  Once I have an effective 
procedure sorted out and a task ahead of me, I should be able to chug 
away and hopefully help make our fav desktop tools even better. :)

I look forward to helping chip-away at whatever I can, I love to feel 
like I am helping things progress.  Helping smack bugs down in bugzilla 
is a very measurable way of accomplishing that. :)

Thanks again in advance for the response, and for your patience, 
hopefully I am not missing the wide open clues to answer my own 
questions ;/

Cheers

.mark

Carlos Leonhard Woelz wrote:

>On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 02:24:13 -0800, "Mark Berry" <mark at bx2.net> said:
>  
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>>Hello,
>>
>>I was recommended to come here and see if I could help you guys out with
>>some testing.   Any tips for a newbie getting started?  I suppose I need
>>the advanced KFM testing framework, and access to the bug database.
>>
>>1.  Where is the bug database located, do we use bugzilla?  Where can I
>>read on where to get started with procedures on that and whats expected
>>in terms of bug reports and testing reports.
>>    
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>
>
>Bugs database:
>
>http://bugs.kde.org
>
>It is bugzilla based indeed.
>
>
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>>2.  Is there documentation on the KFM testing framework, and where can I
>>get a hold of that software and begin work.
>>    
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>There is the khtmltests module on KDE CVS.
>
>  
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>>I am very anxious to get started and help where I can.  If you can point
>>me in the right direction, and surely answer a few silly questions (I am
>>guaranteed to have a few), I hope to be a great asset to your team.
>>    
>>
>                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^
>_Our team_ :)
>
>For questions about general volunteer support and general KDE stuff,
>please use and subscribe to the kde-quality mailing list. For specific
>KFM and khtmltests questions, subscribe to kfm-devel and post there. Do
>you kfm developers have something else to add?
>
>Cheers,
>  
>

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