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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....