[sakai2-tcc] IMPORTANT: Help needed for 2.8

[Nate Angell]

Jean-Francois:

Yes, the functional testing kickoff webinar will be recorded and
shared. All resources generated by this effort will be shared via the
central community QA wiki.

As Rob indicated in his announcement, the goal of this effort is to
create processes/resources that can be built on for future release
cycles as well.

- Nate

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Corey McGarrahan <corey at rsmart.com> wrote:
> 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
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> Corey Jack McGarrahan
> rSmart
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