On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 06:46:37AM -0800, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Brian Murray <br...@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 05:07:00PM -0800, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> >> I'm thinking of making the focus on our Jam on QA, i.e. testing and
> >> bug triage as a whole workflow towards providing useful feedback to
> >> developers. Anyone think we should do something else?
> 
> > While I think helping with bug triage is a useful thing, I think there
> > can be a longer feedback loop between getting a bug to a complete state
> > and having it fixed by a developer. Subsequently, I think it might be
> > more rewarding to work on a process with a shorter feedback loop like
> > the verification of Stable Release Updates.
> 
> True if all the contributors need instant gratification. I'm not sure
> they do. But we can certainly work on both!
> 
> > Another nice thing is people who aren't running the development release
> > will have something to do. (Yes, you can improve bugs if you aren't
> > running the development release, but you can't really test to see if
> > they exist in it.)
> 
> Well, with a virtual machine, you can pretty much handle 90% of bug testing.

While that's true, I wouldn't expect everyone to have a Vivid virtual
machine available and ready to go.

> > Either way I'm happy to help with either or both activities.
> 
> Ooh, you're going to be there?

I'm certainly planning on it.

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Brian Murray

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