Re: Coordinating on media responses

On 1/16/06, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: Oops, I fired off a personal response to http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=5971 before reading this thread in my gmail backlog. Sorry about that. -jef Here's the text of my email response: Good Morning, I have a request, if in the future you write reviews concerning fedora test releases can you please add information concerning how people are to get involved in the ongoing testing process. While I'm thrilled that fedora is shaping up towards a fc5 release, and I'm glad you found the test release reasonably useful, I'm not excited about novice users seeing reviews and snapping up the test release without having an idea as to what is expected from testers. Just downloading test releases and taking them for a drive isn't very useful to the project. We need people who are going to follow up with bugreports when they experience unexpected behavior. As an active tester, I would greatly appreciate it if you could add information into the lead-in overview page paragraph of your article which points people to the fedora-test-list mailinglist and to http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/TestingGuide , though the Draft status of that page will change as the text firms up. Beyond explicitly adding information in the lead-in paragraphs concerning how someone gets invovled in the testing process. I think it would be a very good idea if your led by example and referenced bugzilla report tickets urls in the body of the review for any of the outstanding issues you noticed while you did your own personal testing leading up to the review writing. Like the oddness invovling the mounting problem. As much fun as it is to tell the masses about your experience and to get them excited about fc5.. what really matters for the test releases is making sure that bugs get reported to the developers and that means searching for and filing bug tickets. I think if you referenced actual bugtickets in your review, that could help bugzilla usage by readers who find the test release by reading your review. Also currently http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FC5Test2CommonProblems attempts to track widespread problems and bugzilla ticket references for test2.