On 06/19/2012 10:45 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 22:33 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
On 06/19/2012 10:19 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
Basically the plan was to reach out for example to the
Gnome/KDE/XFCE/LXDE/Sugar community's to ask for assistant to cover
their relevant part of required testing if that was the case.
If you think about it who are better qualified and more willing to test
those components other then the people that are using it on daily bases...
This is fine in theory, but it doesn't hold up terribly well in
practice. Just about every time we roll a TC/RC, I mail the lists for
each desktop - GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and Sugar - and ask for help in
filling out the validation matrix. We get help fairly often for GNOME
and KDE, and satellit_ usually covers Sugar, but we very rarely get
anything for Xfce or LXDE.
Oh I'm pretty sure our solution works as well on paper as it does on the
field.
What's happening in the XFCE/LXDE community's is that the head of those
SIG's aren't doing a great job of mobilizing their community to increase
activities and participation in them which means that we ( QA ) might
have to step up and be more visible in those community ( that is if they
cant increase more activities in them ).
I'm not entirely sure your perception of these 'communities' is
accurate. The LXDE list had one mail in the entirety of May, for
instance. (It's had a staggering four so far this month).
Xfce is substantially more active, and we might have more success in
getting testing if we make a stronger effort there, I guess. But I am
not sure the Fedora LXDE 'community' is strong enough that we can
reasonably expect contributed testing on a regular basis.
I always look at the [1] and the top spins for (potential) contributing
base and always when I look there people seem to be downloading LXDE
more than XFCE heck I even mention that to Christoph one time and he was
not sure if he should laugh or cry since he has put more time in
maintaining the XFCE spin than he has with the LXDE one.
Looking at mailing list activities is not a good measurement either
since participation there is highly depended upon discussion on that list.
JBG
1. http://spins.fedoraproject.org/
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