[Scummvm-devel] Bring testers to the team?

[Walter van Niftrik]

Travis Howell wrote:
> Eugene Sandulenko wrote:
>   
>> There was a quite sound idea mentioned recently, that is bring "full
>> time" testers to the team.
>>
>> What do you think guys?
>>     
>
> No, I think it is far better to stick with the more varied testing 
> offered by public testing for each release cycle, even if we struggle to 
> get full testing each time around.
>   

If we add testers to the team that doesn't mean we need to stop public
testing. ;)

Another point is that only testing before releases isn't exactly ideal
for engines under heavy development. Taking SCI as an example, we're
making extensive changes right now and our testing is virtually
non-existent. OTOH, I get the impression from users on IRC and the
forums that quite a few people are actively testing SCI games to see how
we progress. Some of those people might be willing to help us out.

Anyway, let me generalize my original point. I think we should make it
possible for people to join the ScummVM team if they want to help out in
areas like testing, documentation, maintaining the website, etc, even if
they have no programming skills whatsoever.

Regards,

Walter