2010-11-03 - AutoQA and Seneca College discussion

[James Laska]

Hey gang,

Kamil and I met with Chris Tyler (Seneca College) about the possibility
of getting students involved in the AutoQA project.  We met over the
phone and discussed AutoQA background, what the students have been
tasked with and some ideas to get started.  The minutes are recorded
below.

Thanks,
James

= AutoQA Startup Meeting =
Phone call 2010-11-03 (will be recorded)

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== Attendees ==
* James Laska (jlaska) - Fedora QA
* Jaewoo Park(jwpark2)
* Chris Tyler (ctyler)
* Kamil Paral (kparal) - Fedora QA
* Eric Shum (escom)
* Hoc Tran (hvtran)

== Introductions ==

== Background to AutoQA ==

Discussed general design and goals for the AutoQA project
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA).

Question - is autoqa integrated with koji/bodhi?
Answer - not integrated, but monitors for koji/bodhi events.  autoqa is
running in hardware inside Fedora infrastructure, but not yet packaged
for fedora due to missing Java dependencies

Question - is autoqa polling to look for work?
Answer - yes, right now the "hooks" monitor for test events (such as
koji or bodhi builds)

== What needs to be done ==

* Future test cases are recorded in TRAC at
https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/milestone/Future%20test%20cases
* Simple web front-end for our ResultDB
* Finishing some of half-baked tests: Package Sanity Test, Rpmlint
whitelisting

* Student projects broken into 3 phases
** bite-sized initial project (0.1) (Nov 12)
** cleanup-refinement (0.2)
** New test or extending features (0.3)

* Sample bite-sized tests to consider
** Creating autoqa wrapper for man-page checker
(https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/197)
** Font-lint (https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/92)
** Automate fedora package acceptance
(https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/218)
** Test for un-owned directories
(https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/31)
** ABI validator (https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/190)

* Larger possibilities
** systemd tests (similar to
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=autoqa.git;a=tree;f=tests/initscripts;)

== Rough plan for getting it done ==
* don't be afraid to ask any question on autoqa-devel ML (join that
list!)
** https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/autoqa-devel
* contacts: jlaska, kparal, wwoods, jskladan on #fedora-qa IRC channel
* read https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA
* ctyler to meet with students to discuss divvy-up of first-step tests