Some ideas for the QA team

Hello PHP/QAT People! I have spend a good part of my evening vainly trying to write up a framework plan for the qa team. In my imagination, the document was brilliant. It was to be a glorious work of analytical planning so elucidative that it would be considered the seminal document for organizing open source quality assurance teams in years to come. However, I now realize that this was all a hallucination brought on by far too many consecutive hours of penguin / daemon wrestling (aka linux and oBSD system administration) Here are the sketchiest remains of my ideas... read at your own caution. :) The php/qa team has been working together for about 6 weeks. I think that everyone now has a much better grasp on what the qa team needs to do. Some of the people on the team have really shined and I am very proud of you (as I am sure that everyone else is as well) I would like people to step up and take on the roles outlined below. Here are the tasks and roles that I believe the QA team should handle. The QA team: Led by the 'All-Seeing Eye' ;) (or eyes for that matter) they take care of: Smoke Tests Full build and install tests QA Checklists Regression Tests Next we have the 'Entomologists'... They take care of: Bug Tracking Bug Tracking Application Bug Hunting Supporting the QA team and the bug hunters, we have the 'QA Team Mothers'. They would take care of: Administration Organization Motivation Advocacy / Evangalism Other boring Due Diligence issues And finally, I would like to have a archive/library team that scours the mailing lists looking for possible bugs, gleaning useful tips and collection the scattered wisdom of the developers. These do not need to be ultra formal teams (At least, I don't think that they need to be formal :) - just as long as someone who is talented in whatever area they are in helps keep the work rolling along, as well as keeping people motivated and interested.) I would also like for the team leaders to have a nice title that they can put on their resume :) Also, I have realized that I am not any good (yet) at building and installing PHP Release Candidates. I am going to keep strictly to mothering the QA team and doing the occasional bug hunt. Please send your comments and feedback to the list. As always, these are just ideas. As often happens, it is the feedback of other, smarter people combined with some time that will turn them into good ideas. Now, I am going to go take some painkillers and watch TV until my brain turns into a loaf of soy cheese. Wish me luck! See you tomorrow. :) - zak @:~]>