how about a Global Testing Jam?

[Mike Rooney]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Jordan Mantha <laserjock at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> At this week's meeting I brought up the idea of perhaps having a
> Global Testing Jam. I was thinking about the idea of these Global Jams
> and thought that maybe ISO testing (and testing in general) would be
> another way to not only get people involved with Ubuntu, but also get
> some more widespread hardware coverage.


This sounds like a good idea to me and actually I think makes more
sense than a Bug Jam. I thought about coordinating a Bug Jam with my
LoCo since I am a bugsquad/bugcontrol member, but I realized many of
them aren't familiar with Launchpad or triaging processes. In other
words, it would have been a lot of work and many people may not have
been interested in learning.

On the other hand, getting a whole bunch of people together who
already use Ubuntu, to test out the latest version and report bugs, is
something that doesn't require much learning and probably will
interest a wider variety of people, especially if there is an
experienced Launchpad person there helping to coordinating bug
reports, making sure they have all the right stuff.

>There's 3 main things I came
> up with that we need to determine:
>
> 1) When to do it. Suggestions are Alpha 5 or 6 to get as much testing
> in before the Kernel freeze or at Beta to try to pick up more people
> for the final push. Perhaps we can do both or make one a LoCo-focused
> Jam and another a Testing Day more akin to Hug Days.

Alpha 5 sounds good Intrepid-timeline wise, but not far-away wise :)
It might be a little close to get the whole process started, get
people organized, et cetera. We could do it in between the two,
though, and let all the metabugs get worked out, which might actually
be advantageous. Having a huge test-fest right after a new alpha could
result in obscene amounts of duplicate bugs.

>
> 2) Who's going to coordinate with the LoCos and oversee organizing the Jam
>
> 3) What documentation/wiki pages do we need? There's a fair amount of
> documentation under https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing but we may want a
> specific Jam page that pulls it all together and has more specific
> instructions of what we want people to do.

Definitely a listing of the most popular bugs (there is a `metabug`
tag on LP but I am not sure how many people use it, we could use this
in combination with bugs with the most dups reported recently, or
something).

~michael