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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hi everyone,<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">last <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">year <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">we were able t<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">o<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> publish the results
of t<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">he tests</font></font></font></font></font></font>
in an easy to read format<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">
at </font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://docs.battlemesh.org/">http://docs.battlemesh.org/</a>.</font><br>
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The effort <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">was<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> not <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">in vain</font>, </font></font></font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">in less than a
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">year<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> (from
august <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">till today) </font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>the
documentation was read by roughly 1000 people<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">,<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">
which in total spent something like 50 hours reading
it.<br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">believe this
is very valuable for <font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">different reasons:<br>
</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>
<ul>
<li>if you do something great, but you don't publish anything
about it, it's the same as if it didn't happen at all; sure you
might have learned a lot from it, but if you disappear from this
earth the information will be gone with you<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>it will be easier for future contributors to understand what
we did in the previous editions; it will be easier to propose
modifications or replications of tests performed several years
before<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>it gives more credibility to the event; don't forget this will
make it easier to convince your company to pay your trip to the
battlemesh: give managers nice graphs and they'll get super
excited ;-)</li>
</ul>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica,
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Helvetica,
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I would like to replicate
this accomplishment again this year<font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">, <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">s<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">o I
just</font></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> added a new line in the task list:<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font><b>Test
documentation</b>;<br>
<br>
I hope there<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> will
be somebody willing to help. <font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">T<font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">he best thing is to have some of the
people who will run the test<font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"> <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">o<font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">n board; <font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">this is how we did it more
ore less last year: I <font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">documented the high level
process and <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">then</font> Mathi<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">e<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">u
and Toke <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">write</font> more detail<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">ed
information about what they have done</font>.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><br>
<br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">What we missed last
year was someone who would read the <font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif">text <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">in the <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">final phase of the event and fix<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">typos<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">/</font>grammar
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">and </font>im<font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">prove things
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">in
general</font></font>. Having early feedback
would allow us to publish the results sooner when
the <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">attention
of the participa<font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">nts is still high.</font></font><br>
<br>
Nemesis<br>
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