On ??????? 22 ????? 2009 07:06 ?????, 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 > > Hi Kevin, I would like join KDE testing. I have few systems with KDE on rawhide and fedora 11. Thanks A S Alam -- A S Alam --------- Punjabi Open Source Team http://www.satluj.com/
