Beta Testing KDE-Telepathy

[Anne-Marie Mahfouf]

On 04/08/2012 06:16 PM, David Edmundson wrote:
> Given that this the KDE Quality group is a new project it's going to
> have a few quirks and a lot where we're not really sure what we're
> doing.
>
> As a possibly completely controversial idea, we could have a trial of
> an organised of the beta testing program on a much smaller scale. (a
> beta of the beta testing?)
>
> The KDE Telepathy team is planning a release in late May, so we will
> be in a beta testing period between late April and mid May, just
> before KDE 4.9 makes its first beta release. It seems like a good
> opportunity to try out this new structured beta testing.
>
> We can test whether it all works in practice, whether we get lots of
> common questions that need to go on a wiki, whether the reporting
> quality is any good, or any other issues we haven't thought of. My
> immediate concerns is that the developers will spend all their time
> helping people getting set up (which I know is one of your things to
> solve), and that bug reporters will spend their entire time filing
> longterm wishlist items and big rewrite ideas that aren't the sort of
> thing that should be fixed in a beta testing phase.
>
> This would all be on a much smaller scale so it's less important if it
> doesn't run smoothly so I think it would be a good learning
> opportunity for the kde-testing team, as well as obviously useful for
> us who get some more beta testing out of it.
>
> It's something I'd want to run anyway, and it seems like a good
> opportunity to involve you, but it's purely an idea/offer.
>
> Dave
Are you starting your beta release and can we plan something or are the 
different parts too difficult to set up and test?

Anne-Marie