Hi all,
There's been some discussion about testing recently and as part of
that its been mentioned that I'm going to be concentrating on
providing coordination and planning assistance for OpenACS4 and
onward.
Just thought, prior to getting something more detailed out, I'd make
a quick introduction and help set the scene a little.
Many of you don't know me at all I'm sure, but I came to the OpenACS
community reasonably recently via the AD community. My company has
been using ACS4 for a while now, and suffered some of the pains when
the TCL version was being maintained (?) by AD. So naturally I'm
delighted that this version has now found a good home with the
OpenACS community. I'm also really encouraged by the (remarkable)
porting effort thats been going on and the possibilities that now
exist. Therefore I was really pleased to learn that there's
something I can offer by way of contribution i.e. coordinating and
focussing on testing.
I'm grateful to Don and Ben in particular for providing the
opportunity to help and I hope I can bring something of genuine
benefit.
Anyway, right now I'm looking to get a simple plan and strategy for
testing together and in particular to help get some focussed
activity going for the alpha release (and then beyond).
Essentially what I hope to provide is
- The time and availability to concentrate on testing issues and QA.
- A single coordination point for everyone to (hopefully) make life
easier for everyone and to ensure your all getting the feedback and
support you need.
- To help create a good, solid strategy for testing and quality in
the future, the goal being to create an unrivalled quality product.
- To highlight the importance of testing both in development and
individually.
I'm looking to get started pretty quickly, and I'll be putting up
some ideas and so on for discussion within the next few days. I've
been trawling through the old bboard postings and so on to get a
feel for some of the main issues and priorities for the community
and this has given me a pretty good handle on things. I would
however like to encourage *anyone* who wants to to get in touch with
ideas, suggestions, requests and so on to do so. I do want to try
and make sure this is as an inclusive a process as practically
possible.
I'm pretty good at getting back to people and will make every effort
to answer everyone. (If its a general question, better to post it to
this thread, so I can respond morre quickly.)
Ok, well I won't go on any more till I have something a bit more
concrete for you all to digest.
Looking forward to it.
Regards
Simon
