Re: Underlying DE for the Fedora Workstation product

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 16:00 -0500, Mike wrote:
> > [...]
> > I don't know how does the testing goes inside RedHat, but I found GNOME 3
> > still needs to be tested far more than now before each release. Example
> > above indicates that the testing process does not even consider about
> > existence of input context at all.
>
> Wait a minute. GNOME is developed by a bunch of people, volunteers and
> from different affiliations. Some of them are Red Hat employees to work
> full time on GNOME, everybody appreciate that.  But that is not a reason
> to dismiss the effort of many volunteers who work on GNOME in their
> spare time.
>
> It is known in GNOME that we lack of testers, people who take the time
> to build and test the whole desktop *before* it is released. That was
> also true in the GNOME 2 era.  Something that should start changing with
> gnome-ostree (you should take a look at that!).
>
> You would be very welcome to test GNOME and file descriptive bugs that
> allow to improve the quality of a GNOME release.


Actually, we are spinning up a GNOME QA team.  It's been a slow start,
but we are hoping that we can start work on doing the right testing
and also get help from teh community at large to help.

sri