Krita Developer Testing Gathering

[Emmet O'Neill]

Hey all, are you still planning on having a testing day on the 27th?

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:55 PM Emmet O'Neill <emmetoneill.pdx at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think we should wait until the new year to start, since the next few
> weeks are quite busy and I expect most people will be taking at least some
> time off over the next 2-3 weeks.
> I know it depends where you are in the world, but I don't think people
> should feel compelled to do this kind of thing in the middle of the
> holiday. Just bake some cookies instead, eh?
> As important as testing is, it's equally important that people have some
> time to take *real* breaks. Including habitual support-givers and
> MR-testers. ;)
>
> I'm not totally opposed to the 27th, but what do you all think about the *first
> thursday of the month*, starting on *January 7th* *@ 20:00CET*?
> It might be a good way to start out the new year and start thinking about
> our plans and goals for Krita 5 in 2021.
>
> > This is great thing to do. Some how i missed it in the meeting. Will it
>> be
>> > open for only developers? Will it be for whole day?
>>
>
> You may have missed it because we were having some issues with Matrix IRC
> bridging...
>
> Anyway, it's Krita, so of course it'll be open to anybody to participate
> if they can and want to. The more the merrier. :)
>
> Right now we have a number of full-time developers, so the idea is to take
> a small chunk of that time to actually use and test the program for
> ourselves.
> Because when we are singularly focused on squashing the next bug in the
> list, or making the next change to our MR,
> It's very easy to spend all of your time and mental energy on the code in
> the IDE, and not on the program itself.
> Ultimately, it does cost us a few developer hours, but I think it'll have
> a return of better vision, more ideas, and a better feel for what we're
> working towards.
> (If it's not worth the time, we drop it and try something else after a few
> months. But I think it will.)
>
> While working it would be nice to take notes, whether it's "fix this
> annoying widget behavior here" or "wouldn't it be nice if this tool could
> do that"...
>
> After some talk, it seemed
>> like we should try to (voluntarily) organize on BBB, everyone turns on
>> screen sharing and you know, we'll just draw and chat a bit.
>>
>
> I'm all for this, and starting at 20:00CET would work fine for Eoin and I,
> since that's around the time we usually.
> I do think that the diversity of timezones (coupled with everybody working
> on their own schedule) will make virtually organizing pretty hard to pull
> off.
> There's no harm in trying it out though, even if people just pop in and
> out whenever they can. I have a feeling it'll get lonely for Eoin and I
> later in the day. lol
>
> We won't be stuck with anything, so if things don't work out well we can
> always adapt.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 7:23 AM Raghavendra Kamath <raghu at raghukamath.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 15 December, 2020 6:11:42 PM IST Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>>
>> > That would be 20:00 CET -- that can work for me, though might be a bit
>> late
>> > for Raghukamath...
>>
>> Yes that would be midnight for me, but I think if everyone is comfortable
>> with
>> the time I have no problem :)
>>
>> --
>> Raghukamath
>>
>>
>>
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