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My First WordPress Bug Hunt is on

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A couple of hours into my first WordPress bug hunt, I am very impressed by the bug hunting environment that rboren, robmiller, and crew create. It is an amazing collaboration environment! It is actually true that “all participants are welcome to join” (WordPress Bug Hunts « WordPress Codex).

There are about 10 people in the #wordpress-bugs IRC channel. It is a shame that more software testers and developers, amateur or professional are not taking advantage of learning from and working with such talented people on such great software. I guess it is still early in the 24 hr hunt.

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Blogged with Flock

One year at Flock

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A year ago today at 12:15 AM I saw Flock mentioned on Bryght and emailing co-founder Boris, but first I tried to get in the private beta without an invite. I discovered I could access the data in the demo web service, but could not do much else without ‘their special browser“.

Boris responded “ Want a job there? I could probably hook it up for you. They’re making an alternative version of Firefox, that will also be open source.”

I responded “No harm in making the connection”. Within three days I was hired as the 10th full time employee, and Bart introduced me as Flock’s “QA/Community QA/Testing and more guy”.

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Blogged with Flock

WIP Monday, 20060717

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This week
* Interview Quality Assurance Engineers and Software Test Automation Engineer applicants
* More focus on Flock support issues and infrastructure
* Follow up with people that have volunteered their time
* Continue work on getting submissions to Flock’s extensions catalog handed in a timely manner and other infrastructure issues
* Flock 0.7.3 release scheduled for mid week

Last week
* Work on extensions catalog
* Testing of Flock 0.7.3 in development
* Considering QA applicants resumes
* Lost more than a day to a hard disk failure, and the replacement disk also being bad

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Blogged with Flock

WIP 20051222 Thursday

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Thursday, I spent my time:

  • Confirm and verify bugs.
  • Reading a lot of blogs related to Flock and Performance.

I ended my day a little early since it was my 28th Birthday!

Tasks for soon:

  • Work with community on strategy that with submitter’s permission feedback goes to community, unless submitter wants private feedback.

  • Work with Mercurial and build instructions.

  • QA stats for community contribution.

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WIP 20051220 Tuesday

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Tuesday, I spent my time:

  • Confirm and verify bugs
  • There are now no unread mails to [email protected]
  • Mentoring eletido (aka Jon of gamer-station.net) in basics of QA. Fast learner!

Tasks for Wednesday:

  • Confirm and verify bugs.
  • Feedback mail has grown to 2926 unread
  • Test Photo Browser and Uploader

Tasks for soon:

  • Work with community on strategy that with submitter’s permission feedback goes to community, unless submitter wants private feedback.
  • Work with Mercurial and build instructions.
  • QA stats for community contribution.

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WIP 20051212

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Daryl was really ill today. Get well friend!

Charles Fenwick and Mark Swan continue to both make very significant contributions to confirm Flock bugs are valid and verify bugs are fixed. The projects success will be their success.

It is awesome having Vera as a full time Flocker, and in the office. She has wonderful energy and experience to share.

Sunday and today, I spent my time:

  • Bugs. I viewed over 300 bug emails, and 103 of those bugs have been updated since 2005-12-11, many by me.
  • I continued to mentor Jake Dahn in basic white box QA. He has updated 11 bugs since Sunday. Some of them complex! He is a learning quickly, and almost has the beast of Bugzilla in his control.
  • I cleanup up at least two wiki spam attacks, hopefully Gandalf can reduce this issue (bug).
  • I have cleaned Robin’s bugs very thoroughly, so no excuses from him about managing his bugs.
  • Both Adblock and Grease Monkey on Extend work again, big thanks to Jake and Manish. 
  • Confirmed status of Bart‘s must have list in bugzilla.

Tasks for Tuesday:

  • Work with Termie, Anthony, and Chris on their respective bug lists.
  • Work with Mercurial and build instructions.
  • Confirm and verify bugs.
  • Feedback mail has grown to 2898 unread (+57 from Friday)

To not do (myself):

  • Check with Daryl on status of publishing spec.

Tasks for soon:

  • Work with community on strategy that with submitter’s permission feedback goes to community, unless submitter wants private feedback.

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WIP 20051208

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Today, I spent my time in :

  • Robin led meeting with Daryl, Manish, and Gandalf on sysadm position to fill.
  • Robin led meeting about release status, and measuring status.
  • Meeting with Gandalf and Robin about Bugzilla, Firefox 2.0 roadmap.
  • Meetings with Chris, Vera, and Daryl about web, community infrastructure and strategy.

Tasks for tonight and tomorrow:

  • Charles Fenwick did some more excellent bugzilla QA work, and I want to follow up on some of the bugs.
  • Work with Anthony on his bug list
  • Confirm Bart‘s must have list is all in the spec, which Daryl is working on publishing ;-)
  • Ian did an awesome job of working through his bug list, so I need to review the current state of all those bugs, and Andy has attacked his bug list too.
  • Feedback mail has grown to 2841 unread (+19 today)
  • Gandalf and Robin are at HQ, and there are a couple items to work with each of them on.

To not do (myself):

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WIP 20051207

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Today, I spent my time:

Tasks for tomorrow:

  • Work with Anthony on his bug list
  • Confirm Bart‘s must have list is all in the spec, which Daryl is working on publishing ;-)
  • Ian did an awesome job of working through his bug list, so I need to review the current state of all those bugs.
  • Feedback mail has grown to 2824 unread
  • Robin, Gandalf, and Daryl are at HQ, and there are a couple items to work with each of them on.
  • I will start a daily change log!

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