From: Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:58:45 -0800

2009/11/19 Frank Gevaerts <frank_at_gevaerts.be>:
>
> My proposal is to involve our users here, and to do the following:
> - Starting from the day of the freeze, we provide RC builds.
> - We provide a feedback template that helps people figure out what needs
>  testing, and to ensure that the resulting reports are reasonably easy
>  to handle.
> - Someone collects these reports and consolidates them to flyspray
>  tasks for the actual bugs.

From my experience, trying to get anyone (devs or users) to test
patches and builds has been mostly wasted effort. And even if it
wasnt, getting mass testing on RC builds is a bit late in the game.
The bugs that show up then should have been found when the feature
that added them was added.
Received on 2009-11-19