What contributes to me being a pretty good tester is that I have a knack for taking things apart, exploring the edges of a system, and breaking things.
“Person has [environment] A. There is a problem X. Trying to troubleshoot X will be difficult until I can start to change the situation to see what happens to the problem.”
Writes WordPress Support Maven Mark in Please try Firefox . Not only is he the best support person, I have ever worked with, he is [...]
This past week WordPress development had the most successful bug hunts ever! I spoke correct, plural, two bug hunts. These hunters are the best!
“Find, confirm, and fix bugs, then submit and test patches for those bugs.”
From WordPress Bug Hunts
At the beginning of October there were 717 open of a total of 3015 tickets. Today there are 595 open of a total of 3249.
That is a 234 new tickets, a reduction of the backlog by 122, for total tickets closed of 356 in October. Fantastic results!
Thanks to Matt, Ryan, Mark, Nazgul, Masquerade, westi, [...]
Last night WordPress 2.0.5 leads Ryan Boren and Mark Jaquith made available a release candidate.
Download it (zip, svn), report bugs, and discuss it on the WordPress testers mailing list. If there are no severe issues it will likely be released within about 10 days.
The Flock team continues to get fresh talent. As I hinted last week, Flock has a new member their QA team this week, Jacky Zhang.
Not only is Mark Jaquith an incredibly talented WordPress developer, he can rhyme:
There once was a CMS from Automattic,
That had <!–more–> behavior quite erratic.
They flipped and they flopped,
Until Podz’s poor head popped
And the forums were put to a panic.
#2582 (Full text feed problem when using <!–more–> tag) - WordPress Trac - Trac
technorati tags:limerick, code [...]
My first priority as a member of the Automattic team is wading into WordPress bug reports. This is my new bug garden.
About three weeks ago we released Flock beta 1. Some friends have asked me what “Flock beta 1″ means.
Wow, we have come a long way! The product has had fantastic evolution in the four months since our last major release. I now have the most fun and productive web experience I have ever had.
Milestone 11 is here:
MSWin, MacOS Universal, Linux
* If you are running a recent milestone build, you should have already been [...]
Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design by Robert Hoekman Jr.
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