On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 07:51 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 06:55:44PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I just want to make sure anyone who wants to do this goes in with an > > accurate knowledge of the work that's likely to be involved. I also want > > to explain that the folks we have in QA already who are interested in > > working on tools are already full-time working on other things, and yes > > we have considered OpenQA (and various other GUI automation frameworks, > > and various other possible uses of our time apart from working on > > Taskotron and the other tools we're working on), and come to the > > conclusion that the stuff we're working on right now really is the most > > important stuff to be working on right now. > > > > We certainly do welcome anyone who wants to spend some of their spare > > cycles working on OTHER things, though. :) > > I'm not trying to undo your welcome :) but, also, one completed QA > automation framework is approximately 18,000,000× more valuable than two > partially-completed ones, so if anyone is interested in this in general but > hasn't gotten started, finding where you could contribute to Taskotron would > be *even more* helpful. Hum, well. OpenQA exists and does what it does already; there wouldn't be a lot of duplication going on. Taskotron is a far, far more generic framework; it could certainly be used to do GUI automation testing, probably by using something like dogtail inside it, but there'd be a lot of bits to build, I think. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
