Do you need any QA's?

[RG2point0]

Hey there @sledgehammer or any other administrators.

Do you need any help with QA?

[Peter]

Uhm, what do you mean? Could you elaborate, please?

[RG2point0]

Do you need any help with testing your releases?

I am a QA engineer and would be keen to help.

[Peter]

Do you need any help with testing your releases?

I am a QA engineer and would be keen to help.

Sorry for the late reply.
- There are RC, Beta releases periodically, those always need more testing. When you see they appear on the forum, feel free to check them, run them for days, check your usual use cases, etc.

- The Issue tracker has hundreds of tickets that require like verification or maybe just help.

- I worked in QA and "unfortunately", traditional QA cannot really be applied to torrent clients because of how different the use cases are. Like you might say, yeah sure, write a test that installs the client, downloads a file, you check the sha sum, good, it works, nice. Okay so the user comes along and says they have 90TB of data and they run 80,000 torrents. Why is it slower this release? If you check the issue tracker, you'll get a grasp of alll the stuff.

- Linux - like always - with the shared library and no updates. I like Linux, I used Linux for 20+ years now. But nothing changed on usability front when it comes to desktop programs. Windows has it figured out, OSX has it figured out, but not desktop Linux. I mean, you can just use an older version I suppose, but it's not like packagers cherry pick a "good version". Once the package window hits, it is what it is. There has been a Flatpak for the program which kinda works but also kinda does not (not devs fault but Flatpak on some systems is just broken); There is a static -nox project which fixes the issue on headless systems. But regular desktop users still struggle unfortunately. I don't know if anyone ever attempted a desktop static build. I mean, even if it's 100MB or so, that's like nothing in today's Electron-filled days.