[Systers-dev] GSoC Test Cycles 3 and 4

[Robin Jeffries]

Sure, I am about to start some testing (though Anna has really done the
lion's share of the testing already for this round, but you would get
familiar for other rounds).
I'm posting this to the list so it will inspire others to try.  It's really
not that hard.  And you can send me, anna (anna.granudd at gmail.com) or Jen (
jenred at gmail.com) email and one of us will answer (Anna is in Sweden, so
she's most useful in the morning or if you are a night owl).

First, to get started and understand the background of our custom mailman, I
suggest you read
http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/good_to_know

At some point you should also read the pages here
http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/general_how_stuff_works  but I think
you can do the testing we need for this cycle without that info.

This is the template/checklist for this release
http://systers.org/systers-dev/doku.php/checklist_for_wishlist_integration

To be able to update the page (which in their raw form are rather funky, but
it shouldn't be too hard to figure out which is the place you want to enter
your name, whether the test passed, etc. -- just ask if it's too weird for
you) you need an account.  Click on the login link at the bottom of the
page, and then register to create an account.

We do our testing on abiwt.org  Anna has created a list called wishlist
which we will use to do most of the testing.  you access that at
www.abiwt.org/mailman/listinfo/wishlist.  The first thing you want to do is
to join the list (But see below; maybe not given what I am assigning you).
 It should look very similar to what you did when you joined systers.  It's
probably useful to join under a couple of email addresses (as different
people), so that you can see what happens as a sender and also a receiver of
the same message.

Some things you may need to be admin for.  The admin password is admin.  (it
sometimes asks for it twice.  It's a bug we haven't tracked down yet)

If you can do the set of tests under membership management page, that would
be great.  that page is
www.abiwt.org/mailman/admin/wishlist and click on membership management in
the navigation in the top left.  Some of the instructions and the signifiers
that it passed may be a little too terse.  Just ask us.  This one starts
with mass subscription, so depending on how many email addresses you have
access to (you might ask your spouse/kids/roommates if you can use them, as
you will just delete them a few steps later), you might not want to
subscribe to the list at all and use the mass subscribe to get yourself
subscribed.
  the places where it asks you to do a "moderator activity", go to the admin
page listed above, and click on tend to pending moderator requests (top
right).  It's usually obvious what to do.  Remember, this list exists for
testing purposes only, so if you mess up, you will just run the test again
(worse case, if you do something disastrous, we'll create another list).

When you finish a test, fill out that line in the wiki (after logging in,
click on edit page).  We want your email to know who did the test, and the
time, preferably in UTC so that we can check the logs and see if there was
some invisible problem. P/F for pass/fail should be obvious.  Comments are
for when it failed, what happened that made you think it failed (send me an
email the first time that happens, and I will show you how to file a bug for
it, but for now just put it into this document. ) It's OK to put "X
happened, bt it wasn't clear to me whether that was supposed to or not" and
someone else can fill in P or F.

I think that will be enough to get you started.  I'll be online for another
hour doing my testing, so if you start now I can answer your first couple
rounds of questions.

Robin

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:16 PM, P. A. Grubel <pagrubel at tularosa.net> wrote:

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> I haven't helped at all because I have been gone but am willing to help on
> something. Is there anything I can come up to speed on and do for you.
> Pat
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