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Implementing volunteer testing tracking framework
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Author: vladjohn2013

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Implementing volunteer testing tracking framework

Wikimedia frequently deploys changes to software. It is always useful to test features as early and thoroughly before deployment. Currently Wikimedia doesn't have a proper process to communicate with volunteer testers and invite them to test features. Sometimes the wikitech-ambassadors list is used, sometimes new features run in beta and volunteers are invited to write up their experiences on a talk page somewhere, but very frequently features are not announced at all. The situation is complicated by the fact that the different Wikimedia sites work in almost 300 languages with different fonts, different string lenghts, different templates, different extensions, different CSS etc.

One way to solve this is to develop some tools and procedures to communicate with prospective volunteer testers and to collect feedback from them, both positive and negative. It can be a simple form that says: feature x, languages XX, OK/FAIL. See an example from Fedora here: QA-L10N:nautilus test day. In Fedora, the technical side of things is actually just a MediaWiki table. We could just use that, or we could do something even better: maybe a MediaWiki extension, or maybe even some non-MediaWiki-based technology.

In any case, an easy-to-understand workflow would be very important, even if the technical tools are good, and writing these tools and procedures would be a very useful contribution to the MediaWiki developers' and users' community. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:36, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

URL:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Implementing_volunteer_testing_tracking_framework


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vladjohn2013 wrote:

This proposal has been listed at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects and we are filing a report to gather community feedback and share updates.

You can get in touch with Quim Gil / Chris McMahon who should be able to help drive this.

Lets follow up on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects . Bugzilla is not the best place for initiating new projects :-D