Hi Jim, all. On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 14:11 -0700, in another thread, Jim Walker wrote:
> The testing community has been looking at establishing a "beta test" > project that would be geared toward focusing the energies of the > community on finding issues in the OpenSolaris product. This would > augment the shotgun approach being used now. Sounds like an awesome idea! Please include me amongst the contributors to this project. My official/primary interest and background is around accessibility. In addition, I have three desktops and two laptops in my home all with bare metal OpenSolaris installs all pointing to the dev repo. Combine that with my non-engineery background and odds are excellent that if something can be broken in a (previously) unfathomable way, I will find it. ;-) > Some of the things this project could do are: > > - develop a list of use cases that anyone could perform and provide feedback > - develop a list of tests, test cases and test automation for use in testing > - get input from developers, testers and the community on what to focus on > for each build > - develop a simple beta test cycle process that focuses the project members > and broader community on key old and new features needing testing per build Sounds good. I was also wondering about the internal builds which I gather precede the publicly-available dev builds: Are they internal primarily due to legal issues or due to a desire to reduce the likelihood of external users stumbling across anything major? If the latter, perhaps the definition of "internal" could be expanded to include those of us willing to accept the risk? (Or is this what you meant by your fourth point?) Thanks and take care. --Joanie _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
