[Qgis-psc] Nice example of 'request for testing email

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

Hi PSC,

Below an, in my opinion, inspirational example of an email of Jody to
the Geoservers users, asking them to test a release candidate.

I like the pointing to certain parts which need some extra testing and
provides ammunition for manager questions :-)

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Geoserver-users] GeoServer 2.6-RC1 released
Date: 	Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:43:33 -0700
From: 	Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
To: 	Justin Deoliveira <jdeolive at boundlessgeo.com>
CC: 	geoserver-users at lists.sourceforge.net
<geoserver-users at lists.sourceforge.net>



Reminder that the development team has put a lot of effort into fixing
the issues found with the beta (especially making GeoServer work with
Java 7). We really needs your help testing to make this release complete.

During the beta
<http://blog.geoserver.org/2014/07/24/geoserver-2-6-beta-released/> we
asked for a hand testing the following:

  * Java 7: This is a test of documentation as much as code ... we think
    we have sorted out the installer issues for Windows and OSX (give it
    a try and let us know)
  * WFS Cascade: We have a new wfs client and ask for help testing
    (especially all those tricky INSPIRE services)
  * Curved Geometry: Do you use Oracle with curved Geometries? Help test
    ... as we have had no feedback.
  * Raster Projection: not a lot of feedback on this one ... yet!
  * Coverage views - not a lot of feedback on this one ... yet!
  * Startup: No feedback on this one can be taken as a good sign .. if
    you make use of an "external" data directory we would to hear from you.
  * Pluggable styles: The CSS extension appears to be popular on the
    user list ... anyone want to try testing the RC?

Thanks to all those who provided feedback during the beta, we appreciate
your continued support.

Why does GeoServer need community help testing?

  * GeoServer is a small open source project (relative FireFox and
    Linux) and relies on a balance between developers creating the
    software and an active user list helping out with testing.
  * As a more of a "data driven" open source project it more important
    to get GeoServer tested on a range of datasets (provided by you!)
    Try testing GeoServer with your organisations data, and any national
    data you have access to. Our automated tests run with the same
    test-data each time and really benefit from the diverse datasets the
    user list has access to.

We need to strike a balance between answering questions on the user list
here, but also helping make GeoServer great.

If you need to talk to a manager to get some time to help test the
release candidate please do so. Here are some words
<http://www.how2map.com/2013/09/opensource-and-social-contract.html>Â to
help explain to your manager why this is important. TLDR: It is about
risk management - test now to minimise risk.
--
Jody

Jody Garnett


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Justin Deoliveira
<jdeolive at boundlessgeo.com <mailto:jdeolive at boundlessgeo.com>> wrote:

    The GeoServer community is happy to announce the release of
    GeoServer 2.6-RC1, the first release candidate of the official 2.6
    release. Check out the blog for all of the details.

    Â Â http://blog.geoserver.org/2014/08/18/geoserver-2-6-rc1-released/

    Thanks for using GeoServer!

    --
    The GeoServer Team


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