Thanks to all who came - garycmartin, tabitha_, fhop, kevix, anna_bham, Caryl, bjordan, adricnet, gregdek, aly, martin_xsa, marcopg - especially in the middle of the G1G1 preparation rush.
Log: http://meeting.laptop.org/olpc-meeting.log.20081113_1659.html Notes (includes links to log): http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_testing_meetings/2008-11-13 Next week's agenda: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_testing_meetings/2008-11-20 NOTE: We won't have a 2008-11-27 meeting due to the U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving (which affects many of our current testers), unless at least 4 people email me before the 2008-11-20 meeting and say they'd like one and that they would be there. Our next meeting after 2008-11-20 will be on 2008-12-04. Highlights: * Our first short-term goal (proposed thanks to Caryl): All 28 G1G1-2008-shipped Activities tested by Dec. 25, 2008. Definition of "tested" well on its way to being solid - this time next week we'll have a metric-o-riffic progress report! See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_testing for our current progress and measurements of such.) Longer-term plan: this will enable us to stress-test a good community testing participation framework so that we can recruit Lots Of New Volunteers (G1G1 donors?) starting in January. Resources: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_test_an_Activity, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Reporting_test_results * Tabitha and Alastair from the NZ Wellington OLPC community test group introduced themselves and their work - they have great procedures, months of experience testing Activities and are going to lead the charge in putting up oracles and reaching out to Activity developers. Their group meets again tomorrow. A warm welcome to all our NZ testers - and thank you to Martin for the introduction! * Many thanks to Anna from the Birmingham deployment for her work on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Dsh on the XS - looking forward to hearing more about her + Kevix's experiments with the school server! * Ben, Gary, Kevix, and Mel have drafted an http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_testing_automation design, and experimental implementation has begin in parallel with a design review, and Gary has begun to work on Sugarbot-on-XO implementation with Sugarbot's original developer, Zach. * More participants in meeting leading to more exciting - but also noisier, faster, and more chaotic - meetings. Still ok, but maybe time to think of ways to scale? * Suggested test completion metric: Ponies, supplemented by pony-eating dragons. (You... had to be there.) http://www.berlinwallpaper.com/PrissPrints/images/Stickups/MLP.jpg Action items (due next meeting): * '''bjordan, gregdek, Caryl''': Continue focusing on making http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_test_an_Activity a good set of instructions through testing it with your Activities (Speaak, Paint, and TamTamEdit respectively) and giving feedback - Caryl with a focus on newbie testers, Greg with a focus on metrics. * '''garycmartin, kevix, gregdek, mchua''': 1-2 hour sprint to implement a first draft of a subjective 'complete' metric (and a 'participation' metric) to show the group next week, along with the "by our metrics, we are X% done with our G1G1-yay! goal" (Mel to see if skierpage would like to join us.) * '''martin_xsa, marcopg''': choose date for a testing meeting to devote mainly to developer-tester relationships, probably after Sugarcamp * '''tabitha_, aly''': pick some Activities for the Wellington test group to tackle, go through the http://wiki.laptop.org/go/How_to_test_Activities "oracle-making" section for them (optional: go through your 2 previous test notes and put those in the oracles of the Activities you tested in the past). * '''tabitha_, aly''': with the Wellington test group, explore how we can build excellent test/developer relationships. This is a very open-ended charter - come back next week and tell us what we should do / what you're doing / what the plan is for this. (Might want to sync up with martin_xsa and marcopg on having that conversation with developers.) * '''garycmartin''': continue working on sugarbot with zach, post updates to the testing mailing list (side note: marcopg and mchua can be dragged in to join the sugarbot party when sugarcamp/G1G1 passes a bit.) * '''anna_bham''': Documenting dsh/ssh-to-remote-XO work - mchua to help figure out how to fit this into http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Testing_tools. * '''anna_bham, mchua''': Gather to brainstorm out a plan for XS community testing; we should see if we can make it fit in with our G1G1 Activity testing goal somehow (maybe to set up large #s of XOs for test?) _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
