On 01/04/2013 02:33 PM, Chris McMahon wrote:
I've sorted, linked, tagged, organized, and gardened our collection of QA pages on mw.o to be more useful. Of course there is always more to do, so comments, criticism, edits are welcome.
In the past days I went a mile (or two) further. I think we have a good structure of pages under QA now. What is missing are more specific calls to action for contributors and polishing some pages. Even inside the WMF teams we are having difficulties to nail down tasks for contributors and testing sprints. Coincidence? Surely not. We _just_ need better coordination beyond our own little projects and teams, and better collaboration with e.g. extensions developers craving for testing and feedback.
Currently we have guidelines to be a good contributor in Features testing and Browser testing. What we miss are specific projects that need help right now. Otherwise potential contributors hesitate choosing a project or fear the risk of working in something already done somewhere. In order to fix this we need the involvement from the projects (WMF or not).
Probably related to this there is the fact that different teams have different pages for testing & QA e.g. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_QA http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_%28Notifications%29/Testing and even pages in Wikipedia or Meta. You can help at least making sure that those pages are connected to the QA umbrella.
fyi this is how QA is structured now:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Features_testing ---> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Features_testing
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/How_to_contribute http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/Running_tests http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/Test_backlog ---> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Groups/Proposals/Browser_testing
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA_and_testing/status http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Strategy (needs polishing) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Roadmap (needs polishing)
Feedback and help is welcome.