Re: TestFest 2010

2010/3/2 Johannes Schlüter <johannes@php.net> > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 02:14 -0500, Eric Stewart wrote: > > TestFest 2010 > > > > ##### New Wiki Page ##### > > I'd like to create a new wiki page for this year's TestFest ( > > http://wiki.php.net/qa/testfest-2010). I'd like to > > keep the old one up > for > > reference, and maybe posterity. Any objections? > > thanks for driving this topic! > > > ##### When ##### > > I got quite a fair amount of feedback from people last year wishing the > > event ran longer. So I propose we run it from April to July 2010 (4 > Months) > > this year. > > People are welcome to submit tests even outside the testfest, and I'd > like to see testfest as an initial motivation to get started. > Excellent point. In fact a lot of what I'm planning this year I hope to keep available all year round. TestFest will in a sense be a test bed for developing and deploying better tools for QA as a whole. > > ##### Prizing ##### > > > 1. PHP ElePHPants. These are very popular and sought after. If we don't > > currently have any to give away, can we get a corporation to sponsor a > run > > of say 50 little ones for random test writers and 1 BIG ElePHPant to go > to a > > lucky User Group. > > I'll talk to Damian about this. They make great prizes, encouraging PHP > fans. > I appreciate your help. Anything you can do will be well received. > > 2. PHP email addresses. Also very popular and pretty inexpensive. Give > maybe > > 5. > > These are no prizes. This is a tool for PHP contributors to talk toeach > other (as in finding the correct current mail address of somebody whodid > a commit) As such they shouldn't be given to people by chance but as > part of the account for their work. > > > 3. 5-10 Zend Studio Licenses might make a popular prize. > > There are many good PHP IDEs out there, don't know why we should feature > one specific. If Zend sponsors them I won't oppose but well ... > > (Disclaimer: I work for a vendor of a very good free OpenSource PHP IDE) > Sorry for any offense. I certainly didn't mean to imply that Zend Studio was the best PHP development tool out there or push any particular agenda on the event. It's just a commonly used tool that is not free and might be interesting to some of the contributors. (Disclaimer: I do not work for any PHP IDE company ... hehe). > > 4. 5 Laptops. Anybody know somebody? I know, maybe a bit much, but if you > > don't ask, you won't get! > > I prefer quality over quantity submissions,such a price might give us > many contributions but many of very small quality which makes it harder > for us - given the limited review capacity. Good point. Probably not the best idea so far. I was just trying to think big and maybe find some bigger incentives than we've looked into in the past. I'm not married to the idea though. > > 5. 5 Licenses of Windows 7 Ultimate to random contributors of Windows > > specific test writers? > > 5. 5 Licenses of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server? > > Same as with the above prizes. RHEL is even more questionable if we want > to promote a distribution offering way outdated PHP (5.1), especially as > the only worth of such a distribution is the support which is mostly > relevant for production use, where one system isn't much. Being an open > source project I'd prefer promoting OpenSource Operating Systems over > closed source operating systems - if at all. But again: If they come to > us I won't object but I'd not actively search there. > Again, I'm just spit balling here. I'm also not a fan of the PHP version lag in RHEL. But the RPMs aren't the only way to get PHP on a RHEL box. And many people don't have the luxury of choosing the environment they're employers run in production. I digress, bottom line I'm not particularly for or against it. It's just something I came up with. > (Disclaimer: I work for a company having its own Linux distribution and > a true Unix system) > > I'd rather give out books or conference passes or such kind of stuff > (conference passes are complicated due to the global nature though ...) > > > Any corporation who sponsors prizes will be highlighted in a sponsor > section > > of the Wiki as well as in the news announcements on PHP.net. > > In general php.net doesn't promote companies too much, mirror sponsors > get their logo, some hardware/bandwidth sponsors get a text link other > than that php.net is rather neutral. Thanking companies is fine but I > don't favor selling ads. > > johannes > > Eric Lee Stewart