Re: Proposed directions for proven testers
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 09:30 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi, everyone. I've written up a very rough draft of instructions for
> what proven testers should look for:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_proventesters_instruct...
>
> I'm not really super happy with the format, I plan to revise it into
> something less wordy and more functional - 'here's what you should do
> from Step 1 to Step 5' kind of thing. But I'd just like to make sure
> everyone's happy with the general direction I'm aiming in, first. I'll
> post further drafts for comment as I go. thanks!
Here's a second draft, which turns it into more of a 'list of
instructions':
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_proventesters_instruct...
it still feels a bit mushy and long at the end. Suggestions on how to
reformat or rewrite it to be more 'punchy' and less eye-glazey are
welcome! Thanks.
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I worked on this draft a bit on my own user-page. Specifically, I
wikified some of the links and heavily edited the overview paragraph.
I'm not an expert by any means on the proven-testers proposal, so I
might have introduced inaccuracies. Here's the link:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dafrito/Draft_proventesters_instructi...
I wonder if the article would read better by shaping the article
around responsibilities directly. Each responsibility might be a
separate section. Here's an example:
Overview
Responsibilities
- Find & install updates to test (Explain updates-testing, Bodhi,
--enablerepo, etc.)
- Ensure minimum required functionality (Explain release criteria,
critpath actions)
- Investigate problematic updates (Explain techniques?)
- Report karma to Bodhi, and Bugzilla if necessary (Explain karma rules)
On the other hand, if it seems like these responsibilities share a lot
of information, then the separate sections could instead become bullet
points under a 'Responsibilities' section. The shared infomration
would then become separate sections:
Overview
Responsibilities
Getting Updates (ways to enable updates-testing)
Criteria
- release criteria
- critpath actions
Tools
- fedora-easy-karma
- bodhi
This might be too article-centric. If the goal of the page is to
strictly define proven-testers, then a step-by-step outline makes more
sense. However, linear instructions imply strict adherence, and there
seems to be a lot of flexibility in how proven-testers can/should
work.
I'd be happy to continue working on this by implementing one of the
outlines above on my draft, or by doing something entirely different,
too! I just figured I'd throw some ideas out before I got ahead of
myself. :)
-- Aaron Faanes