Mel Chua wrote:
Greetings! I was just introduced to this project by Greg and Max.
I'm
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mchua. I work for OLPC now, but started
out as a volunteer and love community work. I'm an engineer; I like
measuring things. Therefore I think this project is awesome.
Excellent, glad we're spreading out some!
I'm also sort of a testing geek these days, and would be happy to
hammer
on trying this out in a non-Fedora (OLPC!) context. I'm thinking of the
community testing group in particular (and as a first, smallish test
case), but there's been a fair amount of clamor around measuring
community contributions in general.
Sounds good! Likely the scanner will produce a database that will at
least be a good start for you -- the one thing we definitely
want to do is probably work at getting better reports, graphs, and
conclusions drawn.
Longer term, I think we're probably going to want to start doing things
like scanning version control and trying to detect
patch attachments.
I'm a ruby newbie (mostly Python these days, with rusty
C/C++/Assembly
and some dried bits of Scheme knowledge floating around somewhere), so
I'm not sure how helpful I'd be to development at first; I can at least
start by keeping up documentation (my default first "learn about stuff
by listening" role) and then maybe take on a module (or pair with
someone on one) if there's one I think I can handle.
I'm mostly a Python developer too, you should be fine.
Basically I'd say try to get it working at first, add your own lists to
the settings file (maybe remove some others for testing initially -- it
takes a while and then subsequent runs get faster) -- and then maybe
start thinking about what you'd want to see that isn't there.
Looking forward to the first meeting!
-Mel
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