Feature Testing at WordCamp San Francisco
Getting feedback from real users is incredibly valuable, and WCSF occurs at a great time in the 4.1 dev cycle to do that. We will have a space next to the happiness bar to solicit feedback on upcoming features. In order to accomplish this, if you will be at WordCamp SF this weekend and want to get feedback on a feature that you are working on, please comment below.
I will setup some test sites with trunk and the trunk version of the feature plugins (along with some test data) to help expedite this. The plugins I am planning on having are:
https://github.com/johnbillion/wp-session-manager
https://github.com/avryl/focus
https://github.com/helenhousandi/wp-19867-9864/tree/select2-19867
If you can help with staffing this area, please comment below.
Drew Jaynes (DrewAPicture) 5:33 pm on October 24, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I’m in to help test for a while.
Daniel Bachhuber 6:08 pm on October 24, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I’ll co-opt people who come to visit me at the Happiness Bar to do some testing.
Janneke 6:14 pm on October 24, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I can help too.
Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 10:59 pm on October 24, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I can help
Luke Carbis 1:35 pm on October 25, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Happy to help staff the area. @lukecarbis
Nick Halsey 5:38 pm on October 25, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I’m not there, but it would be cool if you have enough interest to test some of the non-4.1 plugins like the Front End Editor and Menu Customizer as well.
Ryan Boren 11:40 pm on October 26, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Feature plugins should be updated every week in the plugin repo (every day would be even better). With the beta tester plugin, auto updating to each nightly is effortless. Following feature plugin development should be as convenient.
Knut Sparhell 1:57 am on October 28, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I have the beta tester plugin, but not Twenty Fifteen. I have the session management plugin from Github, but not a one click update for it. I’m the dog and wordpress.org is the dogfood here.
Ryan Boren 1:02 am on October 27, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Instead of just testing new stuff, have them show how they usually work. Capture real flows. Be an Alan Lomax of flow. Seeing how people work with and around our interfaces is very interesting. For example, Android users use the Android sharing mechanism to push images to the media library through the Android app. Later, they create galleries from wp-admin on the desktop. Why? Because creating galleries is impossible in the apps and painful on the mobile web due to things like lack of multi-select and aggravating tab switching in the media modal. Another example, some use upload.php to edit image meta because they can’t use the small input fields in the sidebar of the media modal. Those are revealing flows.