Re: testfest status

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org> wrote: > Hi, > > The current sign up list from testfest events and mentors can be seen here > which Lig has collected diligently with just the right amount if > persistence: > http://wiki.php.net/qa/testfest > > I think for doing this the first time the amount of people is ok. Its big > enough so that we can hope to make a real contribution but not too much > either that we might end up being totally swamped and in the process pissing > off potential contributors. > > What I am still missing is more of a stir from our mentors, especially > tutorial style blog posts that either expand the current documentation or > just illustrate how to apply them I think this would increase awareness > about the documentation we have and might also help in exposing things we > are still missing in the documentation about phpt. I'm in the process of writing a document just on general test case writing, should be done by the end of the week! Where would the best place for me to put it be? > > > Aside from this David, Raphael and Ant seem hard at work on finishing up > the interface for the contributors and mentors: > http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-testfest-web/ > > Starting Friday evening I will be online very little in the following 16 > days (with only 2 days back home and the rest traveling the world on my > Ultimate Frisbee mission). So I guess I will be missing the first couple of > testfest events. Obviously the testfest thing is not just my thing, but I > have gotten the feeling that I have been the "go-to guy" for peoples > concerns. So if anyone still has some concerns, the time window to get in > contact with me is closing. The better approach anyways would be to take > things to this list. > > Ah that reminds me, maybe we should encourage testfest participants and > mentors to mingle in an IRC channel. Should be grab a new challenge for this > or use some existing established one? I would propose either freenode or > efnet. Most end users will more likely be on freenode, but most of the > mentors will more likely be on efnet. Then again quite a lot of either > groups will be on both. What are peoples thoughts on this? > > regards, > Lukas > Thanks, Josie