From kde-devel  Sun Sep 23 07:12:06 2007
From: Anne-Marie Mahfouf <annemarie.mahfouf () free ! fr>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:12:06 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Walt Mossberg - a recipe
Message-Id: <200709231111.48600.annemarie.mahfouf () free ! fr>
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Hi,

<devel ranting>
We did a Polishing Edu Day for a few KDE-Edu applications. It was advertized 
on the Dot. 
http://dot.kde.org/1189514559/
However, read the comments on the Dot. "Maybe wrong priorities" 
and "KDE-Edu"... From a developer point of view, there's a constant bitching 
about what we do. Did we have lots of people happy to help improve KDE4 and 
joining, if only to say: "I don't have KDE4 or KDE-Edu 4 but good 
initiative!" Very few people came but fortunately the ones who were there 
rocked so much that lots of work was done. And we isolated problems about 
KNewStuff (kdelibs) for example that we will try to tackle in a next 
polishing day.

So next time please pop up to help, there will be more such days. There 
was "Help Wanted" big sign!!! And Edu is as part of KDE 4 as Dolphin.
</ranting>

Now the recipe:
Practically, what can you do? It's easy! Write a wiki QA for the application 
you want to see polished (say Dolphin).
See http://wiki.30doradus.org/index.php/KStars_Quality_Check it is 
self-explanatory. Are all menus and actions items working as expected? Is the 
interface intuitive (new users are therefore the best, take a friend of yours 
and put him/her in front of Dolphin, it takes 3 minutes to see what (s)he 
does with it and to note down comments).
Then point people to that page and ask them to test as much items as possible 
in as much situations as possible (a different language than English, ...) 
Mark the items being buggy or not. Add a Comment section at the end of the 
page. 

Regards,

Anne-Marie

 
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