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Testing, commenting on and providing bugs, improvements or praise on applications located in the Beta Testing forums is opened to all forum members. The Beta Testing Team is simply a group of well established, and fairly experienced users and developers that have volunteered their time to thoroughly test the applications that are posted in Beta Testing.
Current Members:
- BuddhaChu - Size Matters Guy™ (compression)
- digitxp - The Tag Line Tagger
- Jeff M. - Needs to come up with a tag line
- jwyanze - waiting for digitxp to make one up
- Kevin Porter - The Settings Keeper™
- LittleUnkn0wn - Needs to come up with a tag line
- NeoRame - The Graphic Grader™
- Patrick Patience - Sweat the Small Stuff Guy™
- powerjuce - Not Sure What I Am
- Ray Austin - Needs to come up with a tag line
- Ryan McCue - The Pagemaker™
- S.O.G. - The Silent Watcher
- Steve Lamerton - Program Recompilation & Cross Platform Support
- Thor Marius K.H - Translations 'n' Testing (TNT)
- Zach Hudock - Not So New, New Developer
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Is this... official? And what's the point?
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Yes, John just recommended it, so it's fairly official.
And,
The Beta Testing Team is simply a group of well established, and fairly experienced users and developers that have volunteered their time to thoroughly test the applications that are posted in Beta Testing.
That's the point.
The point is to have a group of established developers and advanced users ready to sign off on whether an app is ready to move up the official chain. If it's a Development Test, then is it ready for official status. If it's a pre-release, then are we sure it's ready to go. Etc. We may form a mailing list to ping people. Or just wait until a certain number sign off on a given app test and label it ready, etc. This is for discussion along these lines. Ideas, etc.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
we are on the topic of mailing lists, is there any chance of a moderators list (or a private forum)? I can see it becoming quite handy as the member base grows and we get the new powers. Also could the other mods email me I could do with your addresses, I am steve(dot)lamerton(at)gmail(dot)com
I believe private forums are supported in Drupal 6. But a mailing list might be better to ensure everyone reads things.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I think there's also a plugin for Drupal to provide more forum functionality (private), if they're not supported in 6.
Having a group of people to test is great. I myself aren't that of a great tester. I sometimes copy some PortableBetas and usually I only notice when they are just not working. I rarely check the whole folder lay out (hmm I know even an official app that has no folder structure at all)
and I never check if something is in the registry. Sometimes I check for folders left behind..
Before we know it someone makes a small app that does an automated search on the registry and computer to see if there any entries left behind based on the app's name
Cheers to all devoted PortablePeople!
the circle?
I'd like to.
And I think a mailing list on Sourceforge would be good as a reminder and as a way to get in touch which can be rally helpful. I think it isn't needed as a lot of us are here anyhow but I think it would be good anyhow.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
in, put me under 'Program Recompilation & Cross Platform Support' i.e. if you are looking at recompiling your program I'll help out (after all I managed QEMU). Not sure if we are sanctioning cross platform yet, but I'll help out when we do, after all I have been working towards Toucan linux support for 2.0. I'll also do WINE testing if needed.
Put me down as the Size Matters Guy (compression/recompression)
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Simeon, Steve and BuddhaChu have been added now.
John, do you think we could create a thread that lists the apps that are in Development Test, but are ready to go except for splash screen and your signature? This way it would all be in one location, easier for you, and others, to find.
The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705
something like this but with the ability to add comments and a mod can put the app you mentioned in you comment into the list and deletes the comment?
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
kind of. that is (or should be) a list of all the apps in testing, what I'm looking for is a list of apps that have completed the testing phase and are only waiting for John's side of things. But yes, your description is very similar to what I'm suggesting.
The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705
Why not just keep Ryan's Wiki page up to date, and link to that? It's not official, but it could still be up to date until there is an official one.
Maybe there could be a simpler set of codes for the status column, so it is more obvious which ones are ready to be considered for release and which are still being tested. (For myself, I'd like to see "development test nn" replaced with "release candidate nn" after it has been polished and tested enough -- or else use some other classification at the beginning of the development phase so "development test" means the same as "this has been tested thoroughly and vetted by the beta testing team, so it is ready to get onto John's todo list.)
MC
That's a good idea. I like the idea of changing it to release candidate after it's ready to go, and we do need a simpler set of codes for the status. Whenever Ryan comes back we'll try to get something going.
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I'm back
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
I think that's a good idea. And all the Apps that are ready can be marked in some way and Ryan can put them on the list on the DevelopmentTest page.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
would like to get in on the testing team. I've not been a member here for all that long, but I've lurked here and used the apps for better that a year and a half.
I have been very interested in what is going on. I usually check it daily.
S.O.G.
I haven't actually registered until now, though I've found the betas and the development very useful. Been using the site for about 2 years. Though, I regret not saying anything. Got a bit more active recently, as in starting to test regulary.
There's nothing special about me, I simply like testing things. Just as blowing things up. You try something and get to see the result. If I could join I'd probably like to have a tagline along the lines of a tester. Though, support and translating is really something I enjoy, so if there is a plan of translating PortableApps.com into other language.. then atleast sign me up for that.
Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places. ~ Garrison Keillor
There is localization/translation stuff over here. If you just plan on translating that's perfectly fine. If you wish to be added to the list of testers, we can do that too, just let us know.
Thanks for your interest, and welcome to the forums.
The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705
Yes, I'd love to join the testing team.
Thanks.
Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places. ~ Garrison Keillor
Somebody should be The Settings Keeper. Too bad I don't have time for this...
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if you still need help. I'm usually pretty good at finding something broken.
forget it for now, i'm drawing a blank. any ideas?
I know it's been mentioned before, so I'm so glad that this has gone through. I'd like to join. It's such a great idea! You know what, you can call me "The Settings Keeper," like digitxp said. Sounds cool.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
add me to the list to i know iv'e been quite latly but im still useing the apps
if you don't know-ee you should ASCII
added....think of a tag line please
The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705
I would join guys since I have plenty of experience but it's a matter of time now since I now live in the woods with dialup and not only that most of the time I am working paying off bills and such, not only that I got to file my taxes, etc
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
Hey Zach, stop making 'added' and 'updated' comments. For one, they're not needed (people can see when their added). But the more important reason is that they're multiple short duplicative comments and the spam filter is automatically tagging them.
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i would like to join
but not sure what that i can be
Please search before posting. ~Thanks
i would join it, too. but i only can test and reported the new stuff (tell some bugs, are all files renamed?...) and can help with graphical stuff.
Hell was full, so I came back!!!
Sorry for my lousy English!!!
the graphic grader.
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LOL, "the graphic grader" sounds good.
Hell was full, so I came back!!!
Sorry for my lousy English!!!
you wanted a tag im "A quite tester"
if you don't know-ee you should ASCII
I'm supposed to make it :P!
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should that be quite or quiet?
The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705
wanna be the Source Kracker?
Or the Bug Exterminator???
I love making tag lines
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Any thoughts on whether we should have folks monitor the RSS Feed, watch the forum, setup a mailing list or do a special newsletter (essentially just to ping people about big stuff)?
Not as many people watch the forums as needed, really, as evidenced by the Pidgin Portable 2.3.1 Pre-Release. Even though it's a big and anticipated release, it's only gotten 5 comments in 24 hours.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I think for something like a testing team, a mailing list would be good, just to say something along the lines of "app so and so is in Development Test or Pre-Release status, check it out and report back via comment on the thread". RSS might be nice too, I need to get more into that, it's really handy and easy to use, I just dont lol
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I think that a mailing list would be best, I would have thought that people would be more likly too take notice of an email than from a feed. A mailing list would also allow the other developers to post out updates.
agree.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
I agree as well.
I can access e-mail at school, but PortableApps itself is blocked, so RSS wouldn't work there.
I single-handedly managed to get it blocked b/c I visited it every day.
Nice!
that should go in the school computer complains forum
Lead, Follow, or get out of the way.
It's amazing that I download from SourceForge everyday, but I put a proxy on my server to check out that AnonymityAnywhere site one time, and my site gets blocked.
Definitely a mailing list, but I would not mind an RSS feed as well.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook
This is a vote against a mailing list unless I can make up and use a different email addy for it (not the one I registered here under). My current one is semi-swamped.
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you can change your email address in your account settings. using filters could work too.
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You guys do whatever and I'll compensate somehow eventually. I setup some "Labels" in Gmail the other day and that's helping somewhat.
Problem is I'm the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Oklahoma City Online co-chair (that's a mouthful!). As we get closer to the day of the Relay, people get more and more "needy" with my geek ski11z...but that's why I volunteered in the first place so no one to blame but myself.
Hey now! I just thought of a great siggy for the forums for me finally. /me air-humps!
I'm on a tangent...sorry folks!
Thread back on track!
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I didn't see my name
just discovered I might Have enough time.
Maybe I'll be Digitxp- The mathy tag line composer, or the tag line tagger
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There where many beta tests here with software which worked very well and them didn`t become official. That`s a pity.
So imho it`s a very good to put some skilled people in a team an let them judge. Other people are still allowed to post feedback which will be confirmed.
Yup, John asked me to create this group so we have a set of experienced eyes checking out newly developed portable apps. Many of the apps posted in beta testing are being reworked to the latest PAF specs, and the Development Test apps will most likely all become official, it will take lots of time and lots of testing though.
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For mine : The silent watcher.
S.O.G.
S.O.G.
OK u have no idea what a camera man is like them working hrs is mad. i ain't get no sleep for days. Now that i quit i have got my life back. Sign me up for beta testing it's all i have been doing since i have been on this site. Its the best part, and also a little graphics.
Hmm tag line digitxp the tag line tagger i will let u thing of some thing. Heres a little points to go on
my friends who no's not much about computers call me the Software King - because theres no software i cant get my hands on. And the haters call me Bill Gates - because i get involved in computer stuff way above my head they clam i knows nothing
hell sign me up for blackbox testing until i learn nsis i know a little but not enough
Never curse the alligator till you done cross the bridge.
Maybe the software sifter?
Or the beta filter (Nah)?
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maybe the code kracker?
or the bugswatter (never }:))
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Beta Biter? Anyone can use it if you've got a tag you like already.
Don't be an uberPr∅. They are stinky.
Since there's no mailing list yet I'll post here.. GnuCash Portable has been updated to 2.2.4. Please have at it before I post it to the "ready" list.
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the whole thread and still don't get why a "specific team" but... I have been testing betas since the beginning, of course I don't check if something is left in the registry but I check everything else, so if you want to add me to your list, is just a name/charge for something some of us have been doing for long time...
BTW, real name is in my profile I think.
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
The purpose of the team is to have a group of people that are basically promising to test every app that's posted have they the time, average Joe can test if he's interested, but we're not relying on him to check certain things.
I'm sorry, but this is not for me...
I'll cooperate just doing translations.
Regards,
Average Joe
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
Here's mine:
The guy who makes the pages
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
"The Pagemaker ™"
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
for the next 2-3 weeks due to exams and holidays so I wont be able to do any beta-testing. Just wanted to let you know that if theres no comment by me, it doesnt mean I don't like the App
I just hope John keeps the RSS feed updated so I don't miss the new Platform...
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
I hereby declare my resignation from the Beta Testing Team.
Could you please remove me from the list? I think testing is important but I don't have the time to do it as thorough as I think it has to be done so I'd rather stop doing it. I will post anything I will find but I cant guarantee for nothing. I spent too much time here lately and have other things to do now.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
I've been gone for a while, and i'm gonna be gone for another 2-4 weeks
Do you have a note?
Will a C# work for you?
Sorry guys, I'm missing the 'Team' part here. It looks like it's mainly just a few of us testing. I understand many of you are busy, but if you are busy so much that you can't at least test a few apps a week, please remove yourself from the list above.
But really, I'd like to check settings and everything for these apps I'm testing, and I can't do it all alone. I have my specific role I have been trying to fulfill the best I can with my limited internet and digitxp posting 13 apps a week.
So please guys, I know some of you are busy, others only need to help time to time like NeoRame and Ryan. But please, try to test more, or remove yourself from the list. And if you do, no one will be disappointed, but I'd rather have the list actually show the real contributing team.
Thanks.
I have little time, but my role is fairly specialised, could I be turned into request only? If you want someone to test under Linux it is easier to specifically ask as there is no way that I will be able to do all of them.
EDIT: My Ubuntu virtual machine seems to have messed up, but I am still interested in helping out if anyone wants help recompiling their base app.
That'd be great. I agree it is fairly specialized. That'll be handy right before official releases. Maybe test any app that goes in Pre-Release. Currently GnuCash and BonkEnc.
Edit: Speaking of recompilation. Wanna try and recompile Tennix 0.6.1 when you get a chance? I don't think anyone's doing Windows builds anymore, so you could contribute yours when you get a chance. I may have a try, too.
like a plan, as for Tennix it should be fairly straight forward, I already have MinGW, MSYS & SDL installed from when I did QEMU, so I'll give it a go right now!
Thanks very much!
There will be no "team" until the inter-personal communication is setup as specified above...meaning some way to communicate better with each other OTHER than this forum.
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http://mail.cubegames.net/mailman/listinfo/pa-testers_cubegames.net
Feel free to use this in the mean time until John gets a proper one set up.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
It's already up on SourceForge:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/portableapps-beta
EDIT: Ooops. Looks like I forgot to announce it here when I set it up on March 4th. Sorry about that. I'll post a notice now.
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Nicely done.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
The PAFinator
Pre-Release Reaper
and what I said earlier, Beta Biter.
Don't be an uberPr∅. They are stinky.
Are these for other people, or did you wish to be added to the list. Sorry if it should seem obvious, i've been a bit worn out lately.
The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705
as while I try out all the betas and alphas, I'm just a inconsiderate, whiny user.
Don't be an uberPr∅. They are stinky.
yes sign me up
I have quite a few beta apps in my flashdrive, and plenty of room to spare. I have access to a school windows XP PC, and my home XP PC. I also have plenty of thime to kill. I also notice some small things every now and then with the development list, and programs. Like the readme in Thunderbird's plugin folder says to put addons for firefox there.
Edit: Shouldn't this be stickied?
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hey guys count me in too i beta test enough so let's make it official
use my name if you like, i really don't care,
~Michael Fitzpatrick Ruth
Lead, Follow, or get out of the way.
Can i be added to this? Thankz
My Comment Can Be Either
The Crazy One or The Hyped-Up Dude!
Na na na, come on!
A Translating Team.
I'd like to join to, and I like to play around dev apps.
what's your awesomely over-cool tagline :P?
'The Test Tinkerer'?
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Hey, that sounds great!
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