RE: [PHP-QA] Update PHPT details page.

Thanks Stefan/Zoe - these pointers certainly help to give us a sense of structure for the event. I'm going to be putting out some threads on our Org list and see what comes back. Best, H > -----Original Message----- > From: zoe [mailto:zoe.slattery@googlemail.com] > Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 10:50 AM > To: Stefan Koopmanschap > Cc: Hans Zaunere; Eric Stewart; PHP QA > Subject: Re: [PHP-QA] Update PHPT details page. > > Stefan Koopmanschap wrote: > > Hi Hans, > > > > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Hans Zaunere <lists@zaunere.com> > wrote: > > > >> One thing we're still trying to figure > >> out, however, is the actual logistics of the day and how to keep > everyone on > >> track (and in fact what those "tracks" are). > >> > > > > Last year we had 10 attendees and one mentor (Sebastian). The "track" > > was relatively simple: We had an introductory presentation by > > Sebastian on how to test. Sebastian had made the choice of going to > > test the Reflection API, so we made a list of untested functions in > > Reflection, which were written on a whiteboard. Then, functions were > > assigned to the attendees based on what the attendees wanted to work > > on. As they finished the tests for a function, they marked it as done > > on the whiteboard and assigned themselves a new function to test. > This > > worked remarkably well, at least for the 10 attendees we had. But I > > think this is scalable. It might work well to prepare the lists of > > things to test (we did it then and there, but it is something that is > > easily preparable by checking code coverage reports). > > > > During the test-writing, Sebastian was helping people with problems > > they came by, and the organizers helped as well here and there with > > more general problems (workstation setup, submitting the tests to the > > issue tracker). > > > > Our biggest issue (setup problems) is solved by the virtual machines > > that are now available (or will be tomorrow, as I understood from > > Pierre). > > > I think it was about the same for London, our set-up problems weren't > too bad because we had sticks with (a) A PHP source tree (exe on > Windows), (b) the docs. Even so, we had about 20 attendees and 5 (?) > helpers - the helpers were kept pretty busy getting people's > environment > set up. The network was a bit of a headache. The thing that none of us > anticipated was that the air conditioning was automatically switched > off at 18:00 :-/ It was like a sauna by 22:00. There's always > something > you don't think of... > > Zoe > > -- > PHP Quality Assurance Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php