[WG: Sakai QA] [sakai2-tcc] IMPORTANT: Help needed for 2.8

[Corey McGarrahan]

As far as I know it will be recorded and all materials generated for/from
the event will be shared in hopes of reuse. All the resources will be
aggregated in Confluence, that process starts today.

Corey

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque <
jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr> wrote:

> Nate and Rob:
>
> I think this webinar could also be useful for people who might not be able
> to attend because of the time zone difference.
>
> Will this webinar be recorded?
>
> Will support material from this webinar be shared?
>
> - J-F
>
> Nate Angell a écrit :
>
>> Seth:
>>
>> Thanks for bringing these needs to our attention. As you may know
>> through other channels, some of us have been at work organizing some
>> events and resources to try to bring more people and focused attention
>> to functional QA, which you identify as a need in your message.
>> Ideally we would have initiated this effort earlier, but identifying
>> the need, the best approach to meet it, and aligning resources to
>> address it took some time. We hope to have a positive effect on the
>> 2.8 release and establish some practices that can be carried forward
>> for future releases. We welcome the support and suggestions of the
>> whole TCC and larger community. Rob Egan's post announcing the effort
>> follows.
>>
>> - Nate
>>
>> <snip>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Rob Egan <Rob.Egan at marist.edu>
>> Date: Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:50 PM
>> Subject: Help test the next Sakai community release!
>> To: announcements at collab.sakaiproject.org,
>> sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org, pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org,
>> sakai-qa at collab.sakaiproject.org
>>
>>
>> Dear Sakai Collaborators,
>>
>> Would you like to get more involved with the Sakai community and have
>> a direct impact on Sakai? If so, consider contributing to testing
>> efforts now underway for release 2.8 of community Sakai by becoming a
>> functional tester. Whether you’re an administrator, instructor,
>> student, or technologist, if you can use Sakai, you can help!
>>
>> To help you join the effort, the community has organized a free
>> kick-off webinar that will explain the testing process, show you where
>> to go to get started, how to gain access to test Sakai instances,
>> scripts to follow and other resources, and walk you through on how to
>> submit your test results into the Sakai community issue tracking
>> system. Sakai QA expert Corey McGarrahan from rSmart will lead the
>> webinar.
>>
>> Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011 10:00AM-12:00PM PST
>> Register for the free webinar now:
>> https://www.gotomeeting.com/register/523635654
>>
>> Functional testers—new comers and old hands—will then also join
>> together in a series of functional testing "fests" to test different
>> areas of the Sakai 2.8 release. Current test fests are scheduled for
>> 10AM EST on 20 and 27 Jan 2011, but more may be organized. Stay tuned
>> to the Sakai QA Working Group wiki home page for more information
>> about this effort and scheduled test fests.
>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/QA/Home
>>
>> This effort is the result of a close collaboration between myself, as
>> a volunteer to coordinate the 2.8 functional testing effort, Alan
>> Berg, Sakai Foundation QA Director, Anthony Whyte, Sakai Foundation
>> Release Manager, and Corey McGarrahan and Nate Angell, rSmart, along
>> with other Sakai community QA volunteers. We welcome any and all
>> community members who can join us in communicating about and
>> participating in this important effort.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Rob Egan
>> Support Specialist, Academic Technology & eLearning
>> Marist College
>> Library 305
>> Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
>> (845) 575-3590
>> Email: Rob.Egan at marist.edu
>> </snip>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Seth Theriault <slt at columbia.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> This is important, so please read it carefully.
>>>
>>> There is an ongoing discussion among the Release Management folks
>>> about revising the date for the first 2.8.0-rc01 release
>>> candidate (currently next Tuesday, 11 January 2011). This is
>>> because of the presence of a number of blocker issues and a
>>> concern that too few QA resources have been volunteered in
>>> support of functional testing.
>>>
>>> While no decision or recommendation has been made, it seems clear
>>> that 2.8 continues to struggle for any number of reasons and that
>>> any delay in the release of an RC tag could endanger the current
>>> 1 March 2011 target date.
>>>
>>> As such, we need your help to release 2.8 in a timely fashion.
>>> Some concrete ways to help include:
>>>
>>> - If you are a tool or project lead, please verify that all bugs
>>>  and approved features that are supposed to appear in the 2.8
>>>  release are actually there. If you have specific test plans or
>>>  the like, make them public. If you have SQL conversions, make
>>>  sure they are the Jira tickets are marked.
>>>
>>> - If you know of or direct QA resources, we need to muster them.
>>>  Please coordinate with Alan Berg to find out where the greatest
>>>  need exists.
>>>
>>> - Review the current 2.8 critical+blocker list and if you have
>>>  expertise on any of these or can provide help, make yourself
>>>  known:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=12539
>>>
>>> - Volunteer to help out with the release notes, verify conversion
>>> scripts, etc.
>>>
>>> Again, getting the a good-quality 2.8 release out the door will
>>> allow the TCC to continue its work for 2.9 and the outstanding
>>> maintenance releases.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Seth
>>>
>>


-- 
Corey Jack McGarrahan
rSmart
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