[Owncloud] Announcement: The "ownCloud Test Pilots"

[Klaas Freitag]

On 18.04.2013 09:02, PcPostar wrote:
> Just a few days ago I was wondering of something exactly like that.
> Personally, I'm not a developer, but I'm an advanced user. I test things,
> report instability.
Exactly than the test pilots are for you! Great, thanks for joining, I 
hope we can create a cool group of experts with a lot of fun and benefit 
for ownCloud :)

regards,

Klaas

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> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Mathias Johansson <
> mathias.johansson at dovado.com> wrote:
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>> Good initiative hope you gets people who apply
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>> Sent from nexus 7 via Dovado
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>> Klaas Freitag <freitag at owncloud.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> with an increasing amount of features in ownCloud, it becomes
>> harder for the developer community to keep up good quality in
>> all functions ownCloud is offering today. To ensure that, we heavily
>> depend on the people in our community who use this or that feature
>> or setup and can report back how it works, test special setups or
>> give insights on how things should be implemented.
>>
>> We thought we should put a little more organization around that and
>> as a result I am happy to announce the idea of the "ownCloud Test Pilots".
>>
>> The ownCloud Test Pilots is an open group of community members who
>> have fun to help to improve ownCloud and are willing to do a bit
>> more than a normal user. An ownCloud Test Pilot has any kind of special
>> experience(now or also in the future, for example with setting up
>> ownCloud with other web servers than apache, or with certain
>> platform/database combinations, with LDAP or external mounts or
>> many users or such. For example, somebody running an ownCloud on a
>> Windows server using a Postgresql database would qualify perfectly
>> for the ownCloud Test Pilot group.
>>
>> She or he will be open to communicate with other Pilots and developers
>> about ownCloud, help each other to reproduce error situations and test
>> that upcoming releases work like expected.
>>
>> Note that it's not about supporting other users (that can be done
>> anyway ;-) but about a focused technical group around special setups
>> and effective testing of the various scenarios.
>>
>> How would you join?
>>
>> Simply stand up and introduce yourself on the mailing list
>> testpilots at owncloud.org [1]. Tell us your name and your experience
>> with ownCloud or your area of expertise. Please do that NOW!
>>
>> Over time we will create a "Pilots Lounge" documentation corner and
>> whatever the group of people will come with once we got the wheel
>> spinning. We as a community can make ownCloud great!
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Klaas
>>
>> [1] Subscribe: http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/testpilots
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