[fedora-virt] Fwd: Call for Test Days for Fedora 18

[Cole Robinson]

On 07/22/2012 05:20 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I guess we need to organize some F18 virt test days?
> 
> Rich.
> 

I requested one for shortly after the F18 beta release, October 4th:

https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/303

- Cole

> ----- Forwarded message from Adam Williamson -----
> 
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:15:45 -0700
> Subject: Call for Test Days for Fedora 18
> 
> Hey, folks. It's that time again - time to start thinking about Test
> Days for Fedora 18.
> 
> For anyone who isn't aware, a Test Day is an event usually focused
> around IRC for interaction and a Wiki page for instructions and results,
> with the aim being to get a bunch of interested users and developers
> together to test a specific feature or area of the distribution. You can
> run a Test Day on just about anything for which it would be useful to do
> some fairly focused testing in 'real time' with a group of testers; it
> doesn't have to be code, for instance we often run Test Days for
> l10n/i18n topics. For more information on Test Days, see
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days .
> 
> Anyone who wants to can host their own Test Day, or you can request that
> the QA group helps you out with organization, or any combination of the
> two. To propose a Test Day, just file a ticket in QA trac - full details
> are at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/Create . For
> instructions on hosting a Test Day, see
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/SOP_Test_Day_management .
> 
> You can see the schedule at
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_18_test_days . There are many
> slots open right now, with the earliest on 2012-08-09 and the latest
> 2012-11-01. Consider the development schedule, though, in deciding when
> you want to run your Test Day - for some topics you may want to avoid
> the time before the Alpha release or the time after the feature freeze
> or the Final freeze.
> 
> We normally aim to schedule Test Days on Thursdays; however, if you want
> to run a series of related Test Days, it's often a good idea to do
> something like Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday of the same week (this is
> how we usually run the X Test Week, for instance). If all the Thursday
> slots fill up but more people want to run Test Days, we will open up
> Tuesday slots as overflows. And finally, if you really want to run a
> Test Day in a specific timeframe due to the development schedule, but
> the Thursday slot for that week is full, we can add a slot on another
> day. We're flexible! Just put in your ticket the date or timeframe you'd
> like, and we'll figure it out from there.
> 
> If you have any questions about the Test Day process, please don't
> hesitate to contact me or any other member of the QA team on test@ or in
> #fedora-qa on IRC. Thanks!
>