[Scummvm-devel] Bring testers to the team?

[Max Horn]

Hi there,

adding official testers to the team of course would be great. I am  
somewhat doubtful about how well it would work out, but see no reason  
not to try it :).

I don't really care so much about +o / +v bits on IRC, as long as we  
retain the "master key" and can remove those flags from anybody who  
abuses them. Personally, I almost never use +o anyway, except to kick  
DrMccoy or other people who deserve it equally ;).

And yeah, we definitely would have to review the tester status. If  
people do good work (we should think about what that means), keep and  
reward them (buy them some games -- ok, not quite altruistic, since  
they of course should start testing those, too *g*). If they don't do  
actual quality testing, we can cull them from the list (like we  
sometimes do with devs, although not very frequently).

I am not keen on writing down an elaborate "rules set" on this, but we  
should at least agree on a rough reference framework, to give people  
an idea of what we expect. But I'd abstain from making it too fixed,  
that just causes more pain than gain.


Cheers,
Max