Re: [ros-dev] Interested in the Testing Coordinator position

[Murphy, Ged (Bolton)]

I hate ugly text formatting ...
Resending in a (hopefully) readable format.

Jerry wrote:

>   After a team says that it has fixed the bug ...
<snip>
>   Each team may have mentees associated with it. The
> teams would then 
>  help and guide their mentees in testing and coding, and these mentees 
>  will help with the work load that the regular testers have. The goal 
>  here is to guide the mentees to be regular developers and either stay 
>  in testing or move on to other parts of the project and have.  
I'm a little confused with the idea of the testing teams fixing bugs.

Testers aren't usually coders. It's great if they are as they can fix the
bugs they find, but in general testing positions are filled by people who
want to help the project, but aren't programmers.

If a tester is a programmer too, I think you'll find that do a lot more
programming than testing, as shown by our tree instability at the moment ;)

Ged.