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Call for testers: Paragon Chat Prerelease Testing Program

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Codewalker:
The pre-alpha for Paragon Chat 1.0 is just about ready for initial testing. There is still some work to be done before it's feature-complete, however due to the sweeping architectural changes, I'd like to have some people stress testing it in real-world situations.

So, to that end, I'm looking for people to join the Paragon Chat Prerelease Testing Program. This is a semi-public alpha program. By that I mean that anyone can join (so long as they adhere to the general Titan rules of conduct). It has a private forum in order to post testing reports and host discussions without outside distractions, but the information discussed is not considered secret and members are free to talk about it.

Who I am looking for:

* People who are legitimately interested in Paragon Chat as a platform to build on, and who are willing to do some extra testing and contribute constructive feedback to help out.


* People who have a forum account and are comfortable with participating in discussions on the closed testing forum.


* People with attention to detail, who can post useful information about situations they run into with a minimum of having to go back and ask for more.


* People with at least some technical expertise are preferred, but not required. The development branch that you'll be running is rougher cut, with frequent updates and changes. It may be broken at any given time, and I can't afford to spend just a whole lot of time troubleshooting local issues that aren't a bug in the program itself.
Who I am NOT looking for:

* People who just want early access to new shinies. The first version that will be tested in this program intentionally does not include any new features, but is just a test of the new architecture.


* People who can't be bothered to submit a bug report after encountering an issue, or who don't respond to requests for more information to help track it down.


* People who will cry if the development branch is broken because of work in progress. :D
What you get for your trouble:

* The satisfaction of knowing that you're helping to build something for the community.


* Early access to development builds that may include partially-complete new features (but not at first! See the item above).


* Cool and unique version numbers that show up when other people look at your player info.


If you're interested in joining, either reply to this post to shoot me a PM. I'm still getting everything set up, so it may be a day or two before I get it all sorted out.

Styrj:
CW:  Please count me in!  I have no programming expertise, nor do I want any, but I do know how to test software from a user prospective (I was a SW tester for BellSouth many years ago, now retired).  As mentioned, I am retired, so, when I'm not in my basement fooling around with my trains, I am upstairs on my computer.  Do you require system info on the testing PC?

Regards,

Tom G.

Manga:

I'm going to make it work with the Mac client somehow if it kills me.  It probably will.

Codewalker:

--- Quote from: Styrj on March 17, 2016, 05:39:39 PM ---CW:  Please count me in!

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Will do! Be on the lookout for a new section to appear once I get everything set up.


--- Quote from: Styrj on March 17, 2016, 05:39:39 PM ---Do you require system info on the testing PC?

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Not out of the gate. Potentially if you run into problems that may be system-specific, but we'll handle things like that on a case by case basis.

chuckv3:
I would love to help. I also have coding experience (30+ years), but mostly do Java. I've had to do C++ and C# for recent coloege courses, so I can help out there if you need something specific. But I'm prefectly happy to test as well. My pc has Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (dual boot to Ubuntu 15.10 64-bit), AMD A4-7300 CPU/APU, 8GB Ram, GeForce GTX 960 graphics card, dual monitors (22", usually left turned off and 24" main).

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