[Chandler-dev] RC1 and validation testing : Please read!

[Philippe Bossut]

Hi,

We had a short meeting @ 1pm and with the fix of bug 10595 dropping in, 
we decided to cut our first Desktop RC1. Bear will be tagging the 
release and build. The tree will be frozen for a couple of hours (see 
Bear's email).

When that's done, we will sanity check (QA) which will take a couple of 
days. When done (and if successful), we'll make that RC1 available for 
download. The consensus is that, even if not fully qualified, this 
version is better than Desktop 0.6.1 and we prefer new users picking up 
that RC1 to an old version. We'll mark *clearly* that this RC is *not* 
the certified final release and that tests are still in progress. The 
important thing is that this will allow Hub to move forward with 
upgrading to Cosmo 0.7.0.

While this is happening, we need to pass the whole battery of tests on 
RC1 to fully qualify the release. We need the help of *everyone* here 
so, to make attributions clear, we created a matrix of test plan / 
assignments here:
   http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/ChandlerDesktopTestSpecifications

Some notes:
- some plans are longer than others so, if you're done earlier, helping 
others is good...
- I made the attribution based on area knowledge (not necessarily the 
best choice, mind you, since the theory goes that the less you know 
about an area, the better you test) but I thought it'd be more efficient 
that way. If you feel unconfortable with the choice and wish to change, 
you can switch with someone else, you can't bail out entirely though.
- the total amount of time to run the whole enchillada is basically 1 
week, i.e., it doesn't need to be done by Monday...
- logged bugs will be triaged by Bug Council and may result in fix and 
another RC to be cut
- we do not expect to run all the test on the 4 platforms. If you can 
test on several platforms, great, if you can't that's ok too. Mention 
the platforms you tested with in the wiki test plan. Testing at least 
once on one platform is what we're aiming for.

Questions on the test plan can be sent to Aparna, me or asked on IRC 
(#chandler).

Cheers,
- Philippe