Re: testfest

Ligaya Turmelle wrote: > I wish to help with the testfest. Lukas told me to start asking some > questions in here. So to help organize things I will add this > information to the testfest wiki page and if you want pass on any > changes for the testfest web page (or you can give me cvs access if you > want). > > 1) Who is willing to be a mentor? What areas do you want to mentor? > What areas are you willing to mentor? Where are you physically located > if the local user group would like to work with you - what time frames > would you be available? (feel free to respond off list to me with your > info) I guess I'll mentor ;) I'm nearest to Chicago, but it's an almost three hour drive there. Time frames...errr... whenever. I'm busy but I can probably make time. I'm most comfortable with the edge stuff - and anything pertaining to windows (shmop, other little known extensions in core) and also PDO > > 2) How are UG's with no mentors locally available going to find a > mentor? Should they contact someone personally that volunteers (info on > the wiki or I don't mind being a connection point) or should they not > worry about it and you (internals) will divvy up them up afterwards? Heck if I know > 3) What areas does the group want to have people _really_ work on for > the testfest (looked at gcov and am assuming anything in red - but > anything in particular)? What areas would you prefer the people to work > on (assuming yellow)? For beginners - what would you recommend people > work on (core functionality)? Actually I think small extensions are a good place to start for beginners - it's actually harder to walk into a fairly well covered extension than it is to get "base" tests in place for an uncovered extension. I'd say shoot for the red, then yellow, than green ;) > 4) I am assuming you would prefer to have people work on 5.3 for the > testfest. Is that correct? Will there be a RC for the testfest or > should people just use what is available from snaps? Heck if I know, I'd say either latest release or 5.3 snaps > That should give me enough to get started. Any other info, ideas or > suggestions would be appreciated. > Have fun! Elizabeth