TestMtg, 2007-10-22

Attending: Alex, Kim, Michael, Danny, Bernie, Ricardo

Test Sprint -

1. Review of test plans on the wiki
2. Test Activity
3. Tinderbox

• Michael summarized the Test Activity logging feature: purpose is to reduce the cost of testing by distributing the testing and automate the logging upload. In the short term, we should focus on getting the logging
  • Modify sugar to put a wrapper around an activity to turn on its logging. Then a crash or a user initiated activity close will zip up files and send them to a central server.
  • The central server can start off with a generic account (perhaps password-less smtp, or something). Could possibly have a local smtp server to send an email with attachment.
  • Start with a list of the system status (build version, firmware versions, maybe some of Yani's network config info)
  • Is there a lot of overlap with syslog? Bernie can probably help with getting the logs

• The three pieces that need to work for this are:
  1. Local collection of logs
  2. Packaging of the logs for sending
  3. Reliable delivery in the face of network downtime

Things we learned from sprint:

• Takes too long to get outside developers up to speed and contributing
  • focused documentation
  • too much overhead to get hosting for access to git repository

• On the manual side, we also didn't have enough planning to get people going quickly:
  • Need to get on Trac
  • Need to get on mailing lists
  • Need to get on irc
  • Need to edit wiki pages

Should we have someone spend a few hours on the getting started wiki pages so that new developers or testers really can get started.

Should we hire someone to organize the community efforts; answer their questions