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Aurelynt

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Testing team is recruiting
« on: July 28, 2009, 01:24:55 pm »
First of all we would like to thank everyone who has taken part so far in the bug drive and donated time to help us getting rid of many more bugs.
We are now in need of testers on Mac OS X PowerPC and are recruiting. Windows, Linux and Mac OS X x86 testers are welcome as well, but we are looking in priority for Mac OS X PowerPC testers.

Your main tasks as a tester will be to verify and collect informations on bugs in order to help devs fix them, to pinpoint build issues, and to test fixes, new features and new art.

In order to be considered, you need to be able to build planeshift from source on your machine and to be able to donate an average of 4 hours a week to the testing team. If you have not built planeshift from source but would like to try, you can join #planeshift-build on freenode [irc] and ask for some help.

If you are interested in joining the team and help buid a better game, if you enjoy testing, contact Lanarel (head of the testing team), Peeg, Vornne, ThomPhoenix, Mrokii, f-rd, Weltall or Ligh on irc or pm them on here on the forum.

Those who have helped the most with the bug drive as players should consider applying as testers.
« Last Edit: August 16, 2009, 07:47:07 am by Aurelynt »

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Re: Testing team is recruiting
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2009, 03:10:10 pm »
We really need new mac testers very badly right now. It's up to YOU, the players, to show the support we need right now!  :beta:

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Re: Testing team is recruiting
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2009, 07:32:34 pm »
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but PowerPC Macs aren't even made anymore and by the time PS is finished there most likely won't be any in circulation.

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Re: Testing team is recruiting
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2009, 03:07:40 am »
They may not be made anymore but we still have a lot of PPC users out there and they need love too :)
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Re: Testing team is recruiting
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2009, 05:11:18 pm »
I'll contact you in 2 years.  :)

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Re: Testing team is recruiting
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2009, 06:17:52 pm »
Why wait 2 years? :)

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Re: Testing team is recruiting
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2009, 06:24:26 pm »
hes not 18?
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Re: Testing team is recruiting
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2009, 06:26:53 pm »
hes not 18?

that.

it's good that you're looking for powerpc testers, it's quite buggy on mine.

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Re: Testing team is recruiting
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2009, 07:47:20 pm »
You don't have to be 18 to be a tester.

All that is required is maturity, time to give, and the ability to build most recent PS.

Inquire on #planeshift-build to lanarel.

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Re: Testing team is recruiting
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2009, 02:42:44 am »
You don't have to be 18 to be a tester.

All that is required is maturity, time to give, and the ability to build most recent PS.

Inquire on #planeshift-build to lanarel.

That's good to hear, perhaps the first post could be edited as it says "In order to be considered, you need to be 18+...."

And I have just finished reading Caarie's guide on compiling the source so I'll be doing that soon.

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Re: Testing team is recruiting
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2009, 06:18:21 am »
Ah good point, did not see that in the first post. I will ask f-rd to remove that.
Use http://planeshift.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/planeshift/trunk/docs/compiling.html as most up-to-date build guide, and come to irc (#planeshift-build) for help when you get stuck (for example with art).
See http://hydlaaplaza.com/flyspray/index.php?do=details&task_id=3037 for some additional tips getting art working.

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Re: Testing team is recruiting
« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2009, 07:53:05 am »
We really need new mac testers very badly right now. It's up to YOU, the players, to show the support we need right now!  :beta:

Its been 5 months... Does this offer still stand? I'd be happy to test, but I'm running Planeshift on an intel-based MacBook,
if you still want a tester, i've started playing Planeshift again and i'd be more than happy to help.

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Re: Testing team is recruiting
« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2009, 09:13:05 am »
always provided you can make the client and server run and you are serious about this

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Re: Testing team is recruiting
« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2009, 10:33:56 am »
always provided you can make the client and server run and you are serious about this

I'm serious, I think it'll be fun... So all I have to do is follow the tutorial on how to build the server?

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Re: Testing team is recruiting
« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2009, 10:41:03 am »
both server and client