[pLog-general] Re: pLog 1.0 testing plan

[Oscar Renalias]

Doesn't anyone really have anything to say? No wonder I don't inform 
about things anymore so often... nobody really cares too much.

Anyway, due to the lack of feedback I will consider this plan approved 
an publish it in plogworld.net sometime next week.

Oscar

On 21 Jan 2005, at 12:19, Oscar Renalias wrote:

> Hello,
>
> since most of you have asked me about a clear plan for the beta
> testing period, here you are :-)
>
> My idea was not to start the testing period until at least the English
> locale is ready. Since I'm building it from scratch (it was easier to
> create it again instead of reusing the old one), it has taken quite a
> while but I'm hoping it'll be ready in 2-3 days. Even though some of
> the screens need to be finalized (the dashboard, some "intermediate"
> screens and other pages like "new locale", "new template") I think
> that a preliminary version of the locale will be good enough.
>
> The whole testing period should last, maximum, until April. And before
> you say that that's too much, I really do think that we're really
> going to need a lot of time for testing... There are way too many
> changes in 1.0.
>
> Pending your opinion(s), my idea is to divide the beta testing round
> in 2 phases.
>
> Phase 1
> ---
> Phase 1 should last for about 4-6 weeks. Tentative dates are
> 29.01-25.02 but if things go better than expected, we can always
> shorten this period (or extend it if things are not looking good)
>
> Users will be informed where to find the svn repository and how to add
> issues to our bug-tracking system. This means that we will not release
> .tar.gz packages during this phase and the only way to get the code
> will be via svn. The idea is that only people who are really willing
> to help will go to the trouble of installing svn, checking out the
> code, etc and I'm hoping that only dedicated and motivated users will
> join this phase. We might find lots of complicated issues and I'd like
> to have people around who know what they're doing.
>
> It also means that whenever a fix is made, everybody who is using code
> from svn will get it inmediately instead of waiting for the next beta
> snapshot to be released (and therefore making life for people like me
> easier)
>
> During this phase we will only test the core features, we will not
> test additional templates or plugins. The English locale and all the
> missing screens should be finalized during this period.
>
> Phase 2
> ---
> Phase 2 should last from the end of phase 1 until the 1st or 2nd week
> of April (again, 4-6 weeks but this can be extended if needed)
>
> During this phase we will start releasing "official" beta packages for
> everyone to test (hopefully we will have ironed out all the biggest
> issues during phase 1) I haven't decided yet how many of how
> frequently these packages should be released.
>
> Translators should finish their work during this phase. Templates and
> plugins will be tested during this phase.
>
> What you can do now
> ---
> - We need all help we can get, either just by installing the dev
> version and using it as your day-to-day blog or by helping us to
> create test scripts (http://devel.plogworld.net/testitool/)
>
> - Take a look at Mantis (http://bugs.plogworld.net) and help out in
> some of the issues such as http://bugs.plogworld.net/view.php?id=152 ,
> http://bugs.plogworld.net/view.php?id=116 , or
> http://bugs.plogworld.net/view.php?id=162.
>
> - Help out in the wiki documentation effort.
>
> If all goes well, we should see a final release sometime in April :-)
> but in the meantime, it'd be nice to hear your opinions :-) Once this
> plan has been approved we will post it in plogworld.net (and
> plogworld.org.tw and plogworld.de, optionally)
>
> Oscar
>