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Mozilla Calls on User Community Today for Testing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where's-my-door-prize dept.

lisah writes "As Mozilla prepares to release updates for its calendar applications Sunbird and Lightning, project developers are calling on the user community to participate in the final stages of testing. The Mozilla Calendar Team has proclaimed today as Test Case Writing Day and users worldwide are encouraged to participate. Mozilla developer Clint Talbert tells NewsForge that today's event is a pre-cursor to the Calendar Test Day Mozilla will hold later this month prior to the final release of version 0.3."

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  1. Not so interested by bogie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    IMHO the ship has passed and everyone who was interested in a calendaring solution from Mozilla moved on to something else years ago because they got tired of waiting. The project has just sat for too long without gaining any traction. Vista's calendar will end up taking over for Windows users and I don't see many Ical users jumping ship. Of course *nix users have several of these programs to choose from. Business users will continue to stick with Outlook. I've been a Moz booster for many years now but I simply just can't get excited about this project.

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  2. I am skeptical... by rjstegbauer · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Something tells me that users should not be writing test cases.

    I know I don't want my users doing that for my code.

    Besides, whatever happened to "Test First"?

    Enjoy, Randy.

    1. Re:I am skeptical... by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Something tells me that users should not be writing test cases.

      Yeah, you're right. Those users, they don't know how the application should be used.

  3. Re:Profit! by andrewman327 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think you are missing the whole point of F/OSS. The prize is buried on the website and is not the reason that people want to do this.

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