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) > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org No American contributers? Sad. Sun can pay me a penny and give me a contract for now and I'll join :-)
James
