On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Chris McMahon cmcmahon@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Community QA is less about deadlines and more about organizing around windows of opportunity. My best example is the testing session that we ran for AFTv5 just before the first limited release to production. A nice mix of Wikipedians and outside software testers provided well-considered testing, and we changed AFTv5 in significant ways before the release as a result of that feedback.
Thanks for the rest your response Chris, especially regarding how you view the role of QA.
We should probably talk off-list, because the example of AFTv5 is a red flag to me that says volunteer QA would likely not be useful to my team. It is the kind of project perhaps most dissimilar from how E3 operates. But it sounds like much of my objections are E3-specific here, rather than applicable to all use cases.
Thanks,
Steven