Re: Interested in becoming a PHP/QA Team Member

Hi, On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:10 PM, zoe <zoe.slattery@googlemail.com> wrote: > Michelangelo van Dam wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Since I'm heavily involved in organizing test fest for Belgium and try to >> work on a solid solution for running tests, I would like to express my >> interest in becoming member of the PHP QA team. > > Welcome - and thank you for all the hard work  :-) > > Many people have helped with TestFest this year and it has made me wonder if > we should have a named team. We haven't right now, and the names listed in > PHP Credits under QA are http://www.php.net/credits.php > don't reflect the > people that are currently involved in test writing although some  have > certainly contributed a great deal to PHP. > > If we do have a set of names I think the best place for it is probably the > QA site, but maybe it would be best to start with a discussion about what >  being a member of the PHP QA team means? > > I think, for example, that it would mean that your primary role in the PHP > project is to test PHP. That might encompass helping with TestFest, > contributing to the QA pages, writing tests, writing test tools, running > tests regularly and making the results available. Maybe there are other > things? > > One advantage of a named team is to provide a set of go-to people for > questions on testing PHP. But that would mean it would have to stay current, > so maybe there would need to be a way to take names off such a list too? > > These are just ideas, I'd welcome discussion of them, particularly from > people who have got involved in PHP testing recently. As I mentioned during the discussion at PHPVikinger, I think it is a great thing to have an official QA team. I would like to refer to Helgi's article in php|architect of may '09 for some pointers. Let's bother him with questions instead of reinventing the wheel ourselves. There's tons of QA knowledge in the PHP community, we just need to get it together. To give more info on the PHPVikinger discussion for those that were not there, another "fear" that kept people from joining QA was the fact that they can't commit to dedicate a set amount of time to it. I think that, even if you are part of an official QA team, you should not need to dedicate a set amount of time. People that are able to, over a given period (say, a year), contribute small bits and pieces on a regular basis could still be part of such a team. All of this is my opinion of course, and open for discussion :) Having said that, if I can somehow contribute to QA, I'll gladly do. Having been involved in three testfests and writing tests during those testfests I already have some ideas on what we can do, and some of those ideas I've already mentioned to Zoe at PHPVikinger :) Sincerely, -- Stefan Koopmanschap http://www.stefankoopmanschap.nl/ http://www.leftontheweb.com/