shaun mallette wrote:
I can start helping in the testing.
Shaun Mallette
Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in KDE SIG, we currently have most of the roles in the packaging
> workflow covered:
> * packagers (several)
> * triager (tuxbrewr a.k.a. SMParrish)
> * rel-eng member (rdieter)
> * live CD maintainer (svahl)
> etc.
> but there's an important role missing: testers!
>
> Of course, the purpose of this e-mail is not to discourage anybody
> wanting to help us in some other area, additional help is always
> welcome. However, one or more testers would be really needed, as
> currently all of the testing falls either on us developers or on some
> users who just quickly test one thing. It would be great to have
> dedicated testers, also in light of the new critical path QA which
> was recently decided by FESCo.
>
> Being a tester has a much lower barrier to entry than most other
> forms of contribution, you just need:
> * some HD space to install test systems to
> (ideally, you'd have Rawhide, Fn and Fn-1 on at least one machine
> each,
> but even just testing one release is helpful)
> and
> * some spare time.
> (Of course, we cannot and will not expect you to work full time on
> this!
> We know unpaid volunteers' time is limited. Several of us KDE SIG
> members, me included, are not paid to work on Fedora either.)
> No programming, drawing, technical writing etc. skills are required.
>
> If you sign up, you will be volunteering with the KDE SIG and the QA
> project. You will get more directions from the KDE and QA teams, but
> basically your tasks will include trying to reproduce bugs, doing
> some basic functionality testing of updates (especially critical
> ones) to test for regressions, and similar things. While not strictly
> required, attending the KDE SIG and QA meetings on IRC would be helpful.
>
> If you are interested, please reply to this call for help. (The reply
> should be going to the fedora-kde mailing list.) You can also contact
> us on #fedora-kde on FreeNode IRC.
>
> Note that this is a call for volunteer help, NOT A PAID JOB OFFER!
>
> Kevin Kofler
>
>
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