On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Nicholas Skaggs < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone! To the bugsquaders, my name might not be too familar > with you. I am the QA Community Coordinator on Jono's team. My goal has > been to help the quality community succeed and do great things within > ubuntu. It's been wonderful learning and growing together over the last > several cycles. However I've not interacted much with the bugsquad during > that time because of the seperation between the QA team and the bugsquad. > > Historically the quality team and the bugsquad have been seperate. Today I > want to propose that we end that seperation. I would like to adopt the > bugsquad under the quality community team. I want to encourage those of you > who are in the bugsquad to consider some of the new oppurtunities that are > availible to the greater QA Team. And for the QA team, I want to encourage > us as a community to learn more about bugs and take part in the tasks the > bugsquad has traditional held. For instance, triage activities and SRU's, > bug hug days, etc. > > To help with this I've created a series of roles for the quality > community; https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Roles/. For the tester role, > I've incorporated bugsquad activities in addition to the traditional > activities a QA team member could partake in. I feel like the listed > 'tester' role could be assumed by anyone today in the bugsquad, but please > correct me if I am wrong. We can certainly define an additional role if it > makes sense. > > Traditionally we as a quality community host a series of workshops at the > beginning of the cycle to help newcomers learn skills to contribute to > quality. I trust those of you who are veteran members of the bugsquad > might be able to bring us as a community up to speed on how to be good > triagers, and reporters, etc as part of these workshops. > > I would like everyone's feedback before I think too long about the the > implementation details. Simply put, as a quality team we need to know how > to be good bug reporters. And as testers we have the skills needed to > triage and verify bugs and fixes. I think it makes sense to utilize the > skills both teams posess and combine them as part of the quality community. > > What do you think? > > Nicholas > Hi all, I do support this idea/proposal and both teams whether we agreed to join forces or not, you all have my full help and support :) I have more than one role and do many tasks but what is related to this subject/matter, I am the QA Lead of Ubuntu GNOME and Ubuntu Quality Social Media Administrator. Looking forward to work together and share everything :) Thank you! -- Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us." Best Regards, amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad> Areas of Involvement <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/AreasOfInvolvement> My Projects <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/Projects>
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