Krita Developer Testing Gathering

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Same here.

On Monday, 28 December 2020 01:56:43 CET Emmet O'Neill wrote:
> 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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