Release Testing Help wanted

You’ve been reporting bugs via Github and the Forums. Our team has been busy collaborating with community members to get fixes prepared. We need your help to test the release alongside our QA cohort and team.

Key Dates: 
Code Freeze: January 17th, 2014
Testing: January 18th to 24th, 2014
Community Test day: January 23rd, 2014 (join us online via skype and IRC to collaborate) 
Fixes: January 25th to 26th, 2014
Crowdmap Classic Upgrading, Tests & Overview: January 27th to 28th, 2014
2.7.1 Release: January 28th, 2014

Community Test Day

Testing is more fun when we do it together. The Ushahidi team will be online to co-test.  Join Us.

Date: Thursday, January 23, 2014 / Friday, January 24, 2014

Times: Thursday, January 23, 09:00 EAT  to Friday, January 24, 2014 11:59 pm EAT

Your Local Time: http://bit.ly/LMc4Cs to http://bit.ly/LMch8E

To join this virtual online event, login to skype or irc. See Contact Us for details to find how how to connect. Introduce yourself. See the main bug tracking spreadsheet(below) or tagged github items (below).  Add your items. Ask questions

How to help

If you are a server ninja, you can download the release candidate and test away. We also have a test server with you can simply login and be a pirate tester. Reminder: Crowdmap Classic uses the same software code base as Ushahidi platform, so testing.ushahidi.com will be almost like testing on Crowdmap Classic.

1. Login to Test Site: site – http://testing.ushahidi.com username = testing@ushahidi.com password = admin2014 
2. Test and Identify bugs: There are two ways to give feedback on the release candidate:
3. There are 32 bugs fixes. We know that you have limited time, so even testing one of these items will help everyone. The full list is on the Test Spreadsheet and in Github.

Reporting a Bug

We are asking all bugs to be flagged on the spreadsheet. Report a bug guidelines

Here are some top level items:

General Fixes

File Uploads :https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/pull/1286

Inconsistency in custom fields: https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/pull/1296

Feed Category: https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/pull/1291

Error on stats page: https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/1270, https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/pull/1273 

 Report Management

Submit new report link: https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/1267 https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/pull/1268 

Change date range on reports tab: https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/1257, https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/1271, https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/pull/1272 

Delete all reports feature: https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/pull/1230

Thanks in advance to all those who reported these bugs, helped fix and test them. More in coming weeks leading up to the Release.