Hi, we have now a mailing list dedicated to software quality assurance:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/

Testing is a good activity for new contributors, improving the quality of the software used by MediaWiki sysadmins and users. No prior experience in testing / QA is required.

See the rationale and background below.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: First post (almost) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 15:14:15 -0700 From: Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org Organization: Wikimedia Foundation To: qa@lists.wikimedia.org

Welcome to the QA list!

This mailing list is an umbrella to host people and discussions focusing on software quality assurance in all its aspects: exploratory testing, browser automation testing, unit testing, continuous integration, the beta cluster, bug management and community QA activities.

We hope this list becomes useful to integrate and retain people primarily interested in testing / QA. We are seeing many people interested in testing from different angles. Some people are current developers willing to learn and discuss more about this topic, best practices, etc. Some are people new to the community that see testing / QA as a way to contribute in technical tasks other than development.

This specialized list follows the good results offered by precedents like the Analytics, Design of Editor Engagement lists. wikitech-l subscribers will still receive the deep & wide QA related announcements. No teams comfortable with the status quo will be encouraged to change their current communication practices because of this list.

There is a bit more background at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48057

Now, who's next?