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adueppenHi, I'm doing a QA test for Google Code-in and the current testcase failed. I checked, and the issue I'm experiencing isn't in the "Bugs to look for" section. What should I do?02:13
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balloonshttp://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/testers/top10015:25
balloonsbut the link on the sidebar wasn't updated15:25
dkesselAnd I am not on it :(15:31
balloonsdkessel, not enough runs eh?15:43
balloonsLook like 100 is the cutoff15:43
balloonsthat's the weird thing about that. quality > quantity15:44
balloonscheckout those gold bugs :-) http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/318/builds15:57
flocculantballoons: awesome sauce :)16:00
balloonsand the hardware profile stuff is gone16:01
balloonsSo just a minor snafu on the top20 -> top100 transition16:01
flocculantexcellent :)16:02
tsimonq2flocculant: and yes, the top 100 tracker actually shows people who contributed more then just a few testcases20:01
tsimonq2flocculant: #100 has 100 test cases done XD20:01
flocculanttsimonq2: still think that the top tester reports are pointless20:04
tewardthey are pointless20:04
teward100% pointless, in my opinion20:04
tewardbecause what does it matter if someone uploaded 100 test reports/cases, or just 320:05
tewardor even 120:05
tewardthe point of QA is to make things better, there's no real sense in saying "Oh, you did more than me, so now I have to do more."20:05
flocculantyep20:05
tsimonq2*shrug*20:05
tsimonq2moral support20:05
tewardsuch competition is, in my opinion, detrimental to the point of Ubuntu in general20:05
tsimonq2I know it isn't the point20:05
tsimonq2and I don't focus on it20:05
dobeytop tester: /usr/bin/python20:05
tewarddobey: LOL20:06
flocculantdobey: :)20:06
tsimonq2ut it is good for moral support20:06
tsimonq2*but20:06
tewardtsimonq2: how so?20:06
tewardI don't see any such moral support through that20:06
tsimonq2teward: like, I made a difference through x test cases!20:06
tsimonq2idk, like that20:06
tewardtsimonq2: with even one test case, they can make a difference20:07
tsimonq2yeah, and a significant difference with 10020:07
tewardi don't see how assigning a number to their contributions helps change that20:07
tsimonq2I can agree with that a bit20:07
dobeybetter to help develop automated test cases that run all the time via automation, than to run the same test 100 times manually20:07
teward^ that20:07
tsimonq2although it feels good to be on a leaderboard :)20:07
tewardtsimonq2: and therein lies the additional headache:20:07
tsimonq2mhm20:07
tewardwe don't run on leaderboards20:08
tewardleaderboards push for competition20:08
tewardcompetition is not the point20:08
tsimonq2I know20:08
dobeyK/D ratio ftw20:08
tsimonq2but the fact that the top 100 exists can encourage more testing20:08
* teward shrugs20:08
tsimonq2balloons: weren't you pro-top 100?20:08
tewardI disagree with that opinion, but you're allowed an opinion20:08
flocculanthow can it possibly encourage more testing?20:09
teward... bloody hell, that libuuid issue again20:09
* teward hates sbuild20:09
tsimonq2heh20:09
tsimonq2flocculant: by wanting to be on a pointless list20:09
tsimonq2:)20:09
tsimonq2talking with wxl, he hasn't said anything bad about it. Do you have anything to add, wxl?20:09
* teward throws wxl into /dev/urandom for a while for no reason, except for the fact the Lubuntu ISOs aren't working after zsyncing20:10
teward:P20:10
tewardanyways20:10
dobeymeh20:10
dobeypointless list indeed20:10
tewardyay, sbuild's working again20:10
flocculanttsimonq2: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2015/12/17/%23ubuntu-quality.html#t19:05 - balloons comments at 19:1620:11
tsimonq2oh?20:11
balloonswhat's this now?20:11
tewardi was just saying too didn't we discuss this yesterday20:11
tewardballoons: testcases leaderboard20:11
flocculantwe're just rehashing :)20:11
balloonsI was happy to push the leaderboard to 100. But yes, I'm not sure why it exists20:11
balloonsother than to help show how many tests you've run.20:12
dobeybecause quantity > quality > quantity20:12
tewardballoons: is such a report really useful though20:12
tewardother than saying how many tests someone's run, i don't see any real benefit20:12
balloonsI'm leaving the idea of if it's useful or not out. If it is useful, reporting more than 10 is useful20:12
balloonsso we changed it20:12
tewardmmkay20:12
balloonsit's data that is buried in the tracker db. I'd rather see more of that data come out, rather than less20:13
balloonsit would be better if done in a different way, but making a big public list is easy, and it was already done20:13
dobeyi'd rather see more automation20:13
tsimonq2balloons: and quite frankly, I would be completely okay with axing the top* if we had a search20:14
tsimonq2balloons: so you can see how many you have completed20:14
tsimonq2balloons: with filters for series or something20:14
tsimonq2thoughts from anyone else?20:14
dobeyand a button to share on twitter or facebook20:14
tsimonq2¯\_(ツ)_/¯20:14
tsimonq2that could work20:15
dobeylol20:15
balloonslol.  Yes. But at the moment, I'm more given to thoughts about doing a UI overhaul more than anything. Someone putting down a useful design would be lovely20:16
tsimonq2balloons: redwolf from the Lubuntu team would probably love to help, he is pretty good with that kind of stuff20:17
redwolfO.O20:17
tsimonq2probably :)20:17
redwolfwhat's the matter?20:17
balloonsI dislike many parts of how it works. If we could keep the paradigm (to avoid lots of coding changes and assume how we do it really is best practice), but but a nicer bow on it, that would be great20:17
tsimonq2+120:17
redwolfwhat are you trying to do?20:17
balloonsWe can start small I guess, but a big picture direction would be nice20:17
balloonsI knew I had the old knome mokcup somewhere: http://imgur.com/UCyuoZk20:18
balloonsflocculant, see I'm not crazy ^^20:18
dobeydesign for what?20:18
dobeyoh, iso testing20:19
redwolfdo you want to change the page or something?20:19
tsimonq2balloons: yeah, the results on the bottom is...not my favorite20:20
balloonsdobey, yes the tracker20:21
tsimonq2balloons: maybe you(or someone else) should take to the ML20:21
flocculantballoons: yep - remember seeing that now20:21
tsimonq2then we can get a wider range if input20:21
tsimonq2*of20:21
tsimonq2you know, the little things that people don't like about the tracker20:22
tsimonq2balloons: then we can make a lot of GCI tasks! XD20:22
dobeyballoons: i'd say QA anything should be integrated into LP, but alas, we know how that will go :P20:23
balloonstsimonq2, crowdsourced design :'-(20:23
flocculant:)20:24
tsimonq2balloons: why, do you not like that? :P20:27
dobeyhttp://francis-moran.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Design.png20:29
tsimonq2:(20:30
dobeyeveryone will have different opinions about what data is or isn't important20:31
tsimonq2balloons: so what DO we do then?20:32
balloonswell, someone gets to play kingmaker, heh :-)20:33
* tsimonq2 raises his hand20:33
tsimonq2ooh ooh ooh pick me pick me pick me20:33
balloonsBut seriously, as with most things, do the work and you get to make the decisions20:33
tsimonq2XD20:33
* tsimonq2 starts right away20:33
balloonsso the person willing to put the time in to do the re-design will get the chance at feedback, and then will likely get to shape the direction20:34
balloonsohh, and I'm the one who can deploy changes, so, heh, I get to final veto20:34
teward:P20:34
balloonsthe bigger point of not asking on the mailing list is we don't need ideas, we need designs. As with many things, ideas are cheap. We need work20:35
tsimonq2got it :)20:36
tsimonq2link me20:36
tsimonq2:P20:36
balloonswell please, feel free to create some mockups for what the new tracker should look like20:38
dobeyballoons: haven't we got a team for that?20:39
dobeytwo teams even20:39
balloonsdobey, teams of?20:39
dobeyballoons: design team, and web team20:39
balloonsahh sure. And they have guidelines, though nothing to cover an old drupal site I'd guess20:39
tsimonq2balloons: can you link me to the guidelines?20:41
dobeyyeah i guess you need someone to make a drupal theme20:41
dobeyballoons: you/dpm should probbably try to get it brought up in the web team's stakeholder meeting, and try to get some time assigned for it20:42
balloonsgetting a full on theme and design would be a long-term investment into drupal20:42
dobeymaybe they can get you a nice theme for it, or even replace drupal with something else20:43
balloonsI'm not sure anyone (me included) wants to do that20:43
dobeywell, moving it off drupal then :)20:43
dobeymeh, all i want right now, is a preempt-rt kernel :(20:44
adueppenI'm new to the QA program, when I submit an in progress result, do I need to include any information?23:36

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