QA Testing for 4.9.1

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Martin,

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi QA-Team,
>
> there has been one thing with KDE's release process which I have disliked for
> quite some time: the fact that we release bugfix versions without any testing.
>
> Most developers are using master and backport to the stable branch. This
> branch is hardly tested by anyone and I as a developer get feedback after the
> release that a fix is wrong or causes regressions.
>
> Now with the QA team around I was wondering if we could do something about it.
> In the case of KWin we know exactly what went into the 4.9.1 release -
> everything is nicely documented in bugzilla [1]. Every bug should also have an
> instruction on how to reproduce.
>
> So is there the chance that testers go through the list and verify that the
> fixes work as advertised?

This sounds indeed like a very good idea, and with a clear set of
tests it is also not that difficult to achieve. With the 4.9.1 tagging
around the corner (tomorrow IIUC:
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.9_Release_Schedule#Thursday.2C_August_30.2C_2012:_KDE_4.9.1_tagging)
we should be able to work on this this weekend.

Now hopefully we have enough testers around to do that, but I think it
is possible.

Who among the testers is running a git build and is available for that?

Regards, Myriam

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