[kde-promo] Dot article for Beta Testing

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 09:23:39 Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> > Is there some information source where potential Beta Testers can
> > contact the Quality Team? If someone wants to do this, is there some
> > formal way of getting involved?
> 
> Well, the article says where: #kde-quality. Just getting in touch with
> us is enough to join  The topic of the channel tells all needed
> information.
> 
> > Where is the list of functional testing items?
> 
> http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Testing/Beta#Upcoming_tests
> 
> But we really want people to get in touch with us first, so giving any
> more information is not a good idea, they can get everything needed
> from us

Holding back information, or make it harder to find relevant information from 
my experience doesn't work. 

> > Are there times for the IRC training? How will people know when to show
> > up?
> 
> Still to be determined. Again, they need to get in touch with us first.

Would be good if we could include those, the more concrete, the better.

> > http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Building_An_Existing_Applica
> > tion is more than I would recommend for "anyone who wants to get
> > involved". Ordinary users are not Git-ing.
> 
> Erm, we don't ask people to build from git, nor should they install
> anything blindly, all necessary information on how to get a beta
> version is here:
> 
> http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Testing/Beta/InstallingBeta1
> 
> And to stress this again: they should get in touch with us first. We
> need to know who is testing so we can coordinate, giving away those
> links beforehand is not a good idea IMHO.

Many people will be interested in seeing the list of things to test. Also, 
having a concrete list of items to be tested is more engaging than a vague 
idea. People will think "yeah, I can do that", rather than "probably out of my 
league", so adding links to these testing pages is a good idea. We can always 
mention that for valuable testing, things need to be coordinated.

Imagine you're looking for a product to buy, and you find 20 possible dealers, 
half of them showing a price. Which ones are the ones who are ditched from the 
list first? :)

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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