August 29, 2006 – 9:25 pm
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 [...]
August 14, 2006 – 5:02 pm
As you know, Julia and I are moving back to Victoria, BC on August 25th. This is primarily because of how challenging it has been for Julia to pursue her goals here in the US. WIth this move, after a little more than a year with Flock, I am leaving Flock, and September 15th will [...]
August 11, 2006 – 5:52 pm
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 “ [...]
August 10, 2006 – 3:27 pm
I have no time. To succeed, I need to know where I have been. I am looking at some Ubuntu software to help prioritize my tasks and record what I am doing. What do you use?
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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 [...]
December 23, 2005 – 9:24 am
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 [...]
December 21, 2005 – 11:17 am
Tuesday, I spent my time:
Confirm and verify bugs
There are now no unread mails to contact@flock.com
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 [...]
December 12, 2005 – 12:47 pm
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 [...]
December 10, 2005 – 10:52 pm
Today, I spent my time in :
Bart led weekly meeting with whole team reviewed bugs and status of functional complete milestone for mid-December.
Work with Robin on his bug list.
Submitted four months of expense reports.
Tasks for Monday:
257 bug updates that I have not read
Charles Fenwick did some more excellent bugzilla QA work, and I want [...]
December 8, 2005 – 6:38 am
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 [...]