From eli@eazel.com Return-Path: <eli@eazel.com> Delivered-To: gnome-list@gnome.org Received: from ratatosk.eazel.com (eazel130.eazel.com [64.0.4.130]) by mail.gnome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6437D2BADF for <gnome-list@gnome.org>; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:03:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from eazel.com ([10.10.101.113]) by ratatosk.eazel.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G0YADG00.J95 for <gnome-list@gnome.org>; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:56:04 -0700 Message-ID: <39C2A904.8F9A7DBF@eazel.com> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:56:04 -0700 From: Eli Goldberg <eli@eazel.com> Reply-To: eli@eazel.com Organization: Eazel, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gnome-list@gnome.org Subject: Nautilus needs Testers! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: gnome-list-admin@gnome.org Errors-To: gnome-list-admin@gnome.org X-BeenThere: gnome-list@gnome.org X-Loop: gnome-list@gnome.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 Precedence: bulk List-Id: General discussion <gnome-list.gnome.org> Nautilus (the GNOME 1.4 File Manager) will be going through its second Preview Release in a few weeks. If you've been interested in getting involved in Nautilus, but aren't a coder and don't know where to start, joining the Nautilus testing community is a perfect way to make a marked difference in the project quality. The easiest way to get involved right now -- especially if you're new to testing -- is by helping verify "resolved" bugs, to see whether they've been truly fixed or not. Over 1,000 bugs are unverified, and it's way to much for Eazel's client testing team (currently consisting of myself ;) to possibly handle. * Interested in learning more, including a quick Nautilus bug verification HOWTO? Visit <http://nautilus.eazel.com/testing>. (General Nautilus information is at <http://nautilus.eazel.com>.) * Interested in staying up-to-date on Nautilus testing, or perhaps getting involved later? A mailing list is now being formed to discuss Nautilus testing issues: <http://www.eazel.com/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-test> * Want to get involved, but think you'll need help building (or with anything else?) Drop by #nautilus (irc.gnome.org), and ask for Carbamide (Josh Barrow) or Eli. Carbamide is a Nautilus build guru, and Eli is also happy to help with QA/test questions. If we're not around, many other folks are happy to help, too. See y'all, Eli (Nautilus Test Geek) ----- DISCLAIMER: Building Nautilus outside of eazel.com is still painfully primitive. A solution should exist very soon. Right now, building Nautilus involves building as many as 20 different packages by hand, depending on your distribution. I'll post again when it's ready for, like, normal people ;), but just wanted to provide advance notice for any interested folks with strong stomachs and iron wills.