Krita Developer Testing Gathering

[Emmet O'Neill]

Ok, sounds good to me.

On Sun, Dec 27, 2020, 6:43 AM Tymon Dąbrowski <tamtamy.tymona at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Let's do it in January? Like you said: January 7th, 20 CET?
>
> niedz., 27 gru 2020 o 08:22 Emmet O'Neill <emmetoneill.pdx at gmail.com>
> napisał(a):
>
>> 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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