[Psi-Devel] [OT] Fwd: Testing Cahoots

[Hal Rottenberg]

Guys, if you like websites like http://stackoverflow.com, you will like this
open source PHP project which is headed up by a friend of mine in the
PowerShell community.  He is looking for people to test the web app and
possibly PHP hackers as well.
If this is something in which you are interested, please check it out.

project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cahoots
screenshots: http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=248918

-hal

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Don Jones <don at concentratedtech.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:39 PM
Subject: Testing Cahoots
To: Hal Rottenberg <hal at halr9000.com>, Marco Shaw <marco.shaw at gmail.com>,
Steven Murawski <steven.murawski at gmail.com>, Greg Shields <
gshields at concentratedtech.com>, Christopher Gannon <
chris at concentratedtech.com>


I'm sending this e-mail to anybody who might be interested in testing
Cahoots, our new community-building software. If you're not able to do any
testing, that's fine. If you are, I've provided some guidelines to help you
do so effectively.

*You are free to share this with others who might be interested. Official
"public alpha testing" begins on February 2nd.*

The features list is at http://cahoots.wiki.sourceforge.net/Features. This
is not a comprehensive list, but it should help you focus on some specific
areas. Apart from that, just *use the site. *Try everything. Be *sure* you
are testing things from the feature list as those are some of the more
subtle things that are easy to miss when you're wandering around randomly.
You will need TWO OpenID accounts. MyOpenID.com is one provider; use a
different provider for each account. OpenID.org has a list of providers.
Each account should require a unique e-mail address.

Send me the OpenID of ONE account so that I can add Esteem to it - you will
need this to do certain activities. The "About" page of the site, accessible
from any page, details how things work, including what activities require
additional esteem.

I have NOT enabled background tasks. Blog mirroring occurs only once per
night; other tasks occur on different schedules (such as sending
notification e-mails, calculating esteem earned from item votes, etc).
Everything normally runs at least once every 24 hours; until I enable
background tasks, though, they will be running less frequently as I will be
manually running them so I can monitor them.

While you're doing pre-scheduled, intensive, full-time testing you can
contact me directly with bugs. Screen shots of errors are invaluable - but
only if your browser window is at some reasonable size (just wide enough to
not have a horizontal scrollbar is fine). If you're not doing full-time
testing according to a prearranged schedule, please follow the links on the
site's front page to log bugs, feature suggestions, or to post questions in
our forum. If I don't have you on a prearranged testing schedule, I won't be
able to work synchronously with you.

If you encounter a problem that isn't an error message per se, test in both
IE and Firefox - this will significantly help in identifying the problem.
"Problem" can include layout issues, style problems, graphics, as well as
pure functionality.

You are free to make "common mistakes" - forgetting to fill something in on
a form, for example. We're not out to "try and break it," but we do want to
anticipate common mistakes.

Part of what you're testing is the ability of the site to guide you. We do
assume you are reading instructions that are presented; there's no helping
someone who doesn't want to be helped. But the site should assist you in
figuring what what you can and should be doing, and things should be fairly
discoverable.

Everything should be working at this point except blog/podcast posting via
MetaWeblog clients like Live Writer - that is known to be unfinished.



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