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Erwann
Qi-Bo Paul Mei wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am Paul Mei, the QE manager for JDS in Beijing.
>
> After discussing with my team and other peoples, I'd like to suggest to setup
> one community called desktop-testing. The purpose for it is like:
> 1. We want to have one place to share all desktop-testing related information
> We have regularly bi-weekly testing result for desktop. We want to share
> our test result in the community, because I heard lots of people are
> interested in the desktop quality status, like firefox, flash, pidgin in
> opensolaris, IPS GUI ...
> There are lots of new project integrated into Desktop, like firefox3,
> flash 10, metatracker... People have interest about them, its test plan, its
> quality, etc.
>
> 2. Attract and organize more people to involve in desktop-testing
> The people outside of Sun can contribute lots for desktop testing/quality,
> because they are using the desktop applications for daily work. Currently we
> have cooperated with Mozilla community to organize students in China to do
> the test day for firefox on Solaris, it is very helpful for our testing. I
> hope we can do more through the desktop-testing community in OpenSolaris.
>
> My thinking is that it will be one sub-community under desktop community of
> OpenSolaris. And there is one link from testing community of OpenSolaris for
> it, then people can easily find it from testing community.
>
> I wrote one draft proposal for desktop-testing community. Please give your
> suggestion what we need to do for setup one community like this.
>
> Please kindly have a look and give your comments.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul.
> *
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Proposal for desktop-testing community*
>
> *1. Brief introduction*
> OpenSolaris Desktop is based on open source communities, with many community
> members directly to those upstream projects. Desktop quality is very
> important for OpenSolaris community. Its quality is related with everyone
> using OpenSolaris, it is critical for customer.
>
> *2. Purpose*
> Desktop testing is to communicate desktop application testing progress and
> its quality, attract and organize people to involve desktop quality-related
> work. Desktop testing is related with all applications in the desktop, like
> firefox, thunderbird, lightling, gnome, evolution, flash, Compiz, pidgin,
> multimedia, Ekiga, Gamin, Vino, A11Y, SSA, MetaTracker, etc. There are lots
> of open source community or third parties involved in desktop testing. There
> are lots of OpenSolaris desktop-related testing result in different
> community, it is hard for people to find out all the related information from
> different places. The desktop-testing community can benefit desktop user and
> tester if there are one place to share all the quality information.
>
> *3. Discussion Area in this community*
>
> Below are some areas in mind:
>
> _/*GNOME*/_
> * Integrate latest gnome version to OpenSolaris
> * Gnome Asia Summit
> We are working on this, it will be held on Oct. 2008, Beijing.
>
>
> _/*Mozilla*/_
> * Contribute firefox latest version to mozilla community
> * Integrate latest firefox/thunderbird/lightling into OpenSolaris community
> * Involve the testday and bugday on mozilla community
>
> _/*Flash/Acroread*/_
> * Flash 9.4 integration into S10/Nevada, OpenSolaris
> * Flash 10 on testing
> * Acroread in x86(TBD)
>
> _/*Multimedia*/_
> * Fluendo/Gstreamer in OpenSolaris
> * Realplayer 11 in OpenSolaris
>
> _/*A11Y*/_
> * A11Y assessment for desktop application
> * A11Y bi-weekly testing report
>
> _/*Compiz/Pidgin/Ekiga/etc
>
> **Test Day/*//*Bug Day*/_
> Test Day/Bug Day is the event we involve people out-of-Sun to involve our
> testing work
> Currently we are involving students in China for the desktop application
> testing, like firefox, metatracker on Solaris. It will extend in gnome and
> other applications
>
>
> _/*New applications integration*/_
> There will be lots of new applications integrated into Desktop.
> * Ubuntu parity applications testing for OpenSolaris, it is targeted
> OpenSolaris Nov.
> * Printing enhancement
> * IPS GUI, etc
>
> _/*Automation Testing*/_
> We have done lots of automation work for Desktop applications:
> * Automation testing development for gnome
> * Automation testing development for A11Y
> * Automation testing result based on bi-weekly build
>
> _/*Process*/_
> * Make some guideline how to involve the desktop tesing
> * Test Case Management tool
> ApTest: test case managment tool, we have evaluated some test case
> managment tool. ApTest is the tool we are using, and hope it can be used in
> OpenSolaris community for desktop testing. It can save all test cases, test
> result, test session in it.
> * Bug System
> Bugster/OpenSolaris bugzilla
>
> *4. Communication*
> * mail alias: we want to setup one mail alias to discuss about desktop
> quality and testing
> * IRC: Setup one channel for it
>
> *5. Sponsor core contributor and on-work engineers*
> Dave Lin (core contributor)
> Alfred Peng (core contributor)
>
> Patrick Gu (contributor)
> Emily Chen (contributor)
> Conny Cheng (contributor)
> Ava Zhang (contributor)
> Tony Yuan (contributor)
> Tim Miao (contributor)
> Vicky Sun (contributor)
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
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Erwann Ch?ned?,
Desktop Group, Sun Microsystems, Grenoble
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