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;Community Brainstorm notes Thurs Jul 22, 2010
* Attendees
* Attendees
** Matt Evans
** Matt Evans
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** Why do people volunteer their time and effort?
** Why do people volunteer their time and effort?
** Stories about why Tomcat got involved with the project (mozilla)
** Stories about why Tomcat got involved with the project (mozilla)
*** fascinated and wanted to learn how
*** fascinated and wanted to learn how:
*** we did open source project management
*** we did open source project management
*** team communication (remote)
*** how we did testing
* L10N Teams
** rather isolated
** good example is the Balkans
** meetups occur
** Milosh
** Macedonia
** Asked would you want to test?
*** yes, but don't know how
** Need L10N leverage
*** dark_skeleton is from the polish community
*** L10N as outpost and forward troops
**** will be able to advertise for us
**** specific on how to improve L10N testing
** L10N testing is a very uncoordinated process
** Currently no QA communication channel to localizer community
** No encouragement to do QA testing
** TomCat: L10N and QA Localization contact representative
*** Tomcat is suited to be a QA contact for L10N
*** He knows the L10N teams and they know him
* Nightly testers
** Need to coordinate more
** Guide them on what to test
;Notes from Tomcat, Thurs Jul 15
* Proposal for Localizer QA Representative
* Proposal for increase testing participation from Nightly/Alpha users
* Obejectives
** More testing coverage
** Community participation
** Goodwill towards community
** Community goodwill
** feedback from localizers
*** specific to localized versions of FF
** Advertise new FF features to localizsers
** QA testing of new features
*** Manual testing
*** Automated testing via Henrick's automated mozmill extension and localized build support
** Increased community communications
* Tie in with DrumBeat? Maybe a stretch
* <font color=red><b>Need to have a QA newsletter!</b></font>
** What's the design
** Send to users via email
* <font color=red><b>Need a mailing list interface to QMO</b></font>
* Mozillazine entry with changelog
** [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1949297| http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1949297]
* Need to define and specify Tomcat's world tour....

Revision as of 16:23, 28 July 2010


Community Brainstorm notes Thurs Jul 22, 2010
  • Attendees
    • Matt Evans
    • Marcia Knous
    • Tomcat
  • Historically hired people from the community but never replaced them
  • Marcia: interested in events that bring in new people
    • expose new people to Mozilla
    • teach them how to get involved
    • groom people to be ambassadors
      • for their region
      • to carry the torch for us (Mozilla and Mozilla QA)
      • Should speak the local language
    • Similar to drumbeat project
      • DB is more about open web
      • but somewhat same objective
      • can we leverage DB and open web for QA?
  • Tomcat
    • Big community with big market share
    • Make it easy
    • Make it clear
    • Clarify what we need
    • Needs to have meaningful value to volunteers
    • Why do people volunteer their time and effort?
    • Stories about why Tomcat got involved with the project (mozilla)
      • fascinated and wanted to learn how:
      • we did open source project management
      • team communication (remote)
      • how we did testing
  • L10N Teams
    • rather isolated
    • good example is the Balkans
    • meetups occur
    • Milosh
    • Macedonia
    • Asked would you want to test?
      • yes, but don't know how
    • Need L10N leverage
      • dark_skeleton is from the polish community
      • L10N as outpost and forward troops
        • will be able to advertise for us
        • specific on how to improve L10N testing
    • L10N testing is a very uncoordinated process
    • Currently no QA communication channel to localizer community
    • No encouragement to do QA testing
    • TomCat: L10N and QA Localization contact representative
      • Tomcat is suited to be a QA contact for L10N
      • He knows the L10N teams and they know him
  • Nightly testers
    • Need to coordinate more
    • Guide them on what to test


Notes from Tomcat, Thurs Jul 15
  • Proposal for Localizer QA Representative
  • Proposal for increase testing participation from Nightly/Alpha users
  • Obejectives
    • More testing coverage
    • Community participation
    • Goodwill towards community
    • Community goodwill
    • feedback from localizers
      • specific to localized versions of FF
    • Advertise new FF features to localizsers
    • QA testing of new features
      • Manual testing
      • Automated testing via Henrick's automated mozmill extension and localized build support
    • Increased community communications
  • Tie in with DrumBeat? Maybe a stretch
  • Need to have a QA newsletter!
    • What's the design
    • Send to users via email
  • Need a mailing list interface to QMO
  • Mozillazine entry with changelog
  • Need to define and specify Tomcat's world tour....