Re: Test team at Symbian seeks contact
Hi Mike,
I'm resending your message to the debian-qa list, which is probably more
appropriate (debian-testing focuses on upgrade reports and issues with
the debian "testing" distribution, mostly).
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:19:43 +0000, Mike Kinghan wrote:
> Apologies for barging into the list. I'm looking for somebody able and
> willing to help me learn about the test strategies and practices in Debian.
>
> I'm the Test Lead at the Symbian Foundation. Some readers might know of
> Symbian as the OS in a whole lot of the world's smartphones. Symbian was
> relaunched in April '09 as an open-source platform. The old Symbian Software
> Limited was absorbed by Nokia and a much smaller non-profit organisation,
> the Symbian Foundation, has been founded to steer and nuture the Symbian
> platform in its open-source life. Now, like a Linux distro, we don't have
> big in-house resources to devote to QA. We need to learn how to enable our
> community to contribute test resources and test effort.
>
> So, I want to study the QA strategies and practices of major Linux
> distributors. Debian is famed for release quality and stability, but I
> haven't been able to find anything published about the organisation of
> testing for Debian. If anybody reading this can tell me where to look, or
> would be happy to inform me from their own knowledge, I would be deeply
> indebted.
>
> Regards, Mike
>
> --
> Mike Kinghan,
> Test Lead, Symbian
> +44(0)776 5222 793
Cheers,
Julien
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