Testing RC2 changes. Was Re: Another RC?, was: Re: Akonadi-Nepomuk Feeder Improvements

[David Edmundson]

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 01, 2013 01:38:33 PM David Edmundson wrote:
>> What I think to we do need to do is come up with a wiki page on how to
>> thoroughly test these two areas. I want a full test checklist for the
>> two areas that have changed, and then get a few people to go through
>> them testing them thoroughly. Something like our plasma tests [1].
>>
>> I've made two new pages:
>> http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Quality/Beta/4.10/DolphinInformation
>> http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Quality/Beta/4.10/PIMFeeders
>
> What I'd really appreciate on pages like that is just a teensy bit of tester
> and/or developer information so that you can actually quickly get those bits
> of software to test. Tester information would be "If you use an OS/Distro that
> has KDE 4.10RC2 packages already, get them from <somewhere on
> download.kde.org> and install the <wherever dolphin lives> package." Developer
> information would be "Get the git-repo <such and such> and build the
> <whatever, possibly master> branch".
>
That's a very good idea.

For packages we try and keep a central wiki up to date:
http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Quality/Beta/4.10/Installing,
I'll add a link.

However now you point it out, we haven't put version numbers in here.
You can't see what distros are beta1, beta2, rc1 or the crucial,  as
yet unreleased rc2. There's no point someone trying this out on RC1..
I'll add a sentence on how to check the version number too.

That's a mistake we can learn from and fix both now and for 4.11. I'll
try and start filling that in.

AFAIK, both of these are either merged into the 4.10 branch or will be
ASAP in time for RC2. RC2 is released on the 3rd of Jan.
I'll find out the repo names and put them in the relevant wiki pages.

> Maybe I'm just missing a bunch of kde-testing background information

If you were missing something, then we have a communication problem
that needs fixing. So please don't hesitate to comment :)
(that applies to everyone reading.)

David Edmundson