Introduction
by Nick Milliron
Hello everyone! My name is Nick and I'm here to help out in any way
possible. I primarily have not that much Linux experience, but have a lot
of experience with video production and would like to help out in any way I
can. Please let me know anything it is I need to learn and some tasks that
would help out. My goal is to help with the design team while I learn to
program and then hopefully one day move over to the OS development team.
Thanks!
10 years, 2 months
Design help requested for Fedora test case web app
by John Dulaney
With the ARM moving to primary and essentially cloud achieving the same
status (from a QA perspectice), we need a better way to track and
display test results for each release. The current method (1) is a wiki
page with a set of columns for each architecture and rows for test cases
grouped by test case type. While this is easily expandable, it quickly
becomes a less than optimal method to display and manage data.
What Adam and I were discussing is a web app to do this. The problem is
that neither of us are UI designers. We have some ideas as to how we
want information displayed, queried, etc, but that's it. Here are the
relevant irc logs.
16:08 < handsome_pirate> adamw: Also, it's probably too late for F20, but I've been thinking about the huge number of columns in the test matrices issue
16:08 < handsome_pirate> adamw: Namely, I've been kicking around doing a web app
16:09 <@dgilmore> adamw: generally pxe with kickstart, but pxe and interactive works also
16:09 < adamw> handsome_pirate: yeah, too late for f20, but i'd love a more capable replacement
16:09 < adamw> handsome_pirate: i have a plan for f20 that's much simpler: table the other way around
16:09 < handsome_pirate> Indeed
16:10 < adamw> so for this test case, it'll be a table on the install matrix page but with the *test case* as the columns and the platforms as the rows
16:10 < handsome_pirate> adamw: I'll see if I can get my programming instructor to let me do it for class credit
16:10 < adamw> probably have multiple columns representing the same test case with different images
16:10 < adamw> that was my next thing to do
16:10 < adamw> handsome_pirate: it might turn into kind of a big project, note
16:11 < handsome_pirate> adamw: Indeed
16:11 < adamw> handsome_pirate: if we're going to do something better then we'd want to do something awesome, that hooks into the blocker bug webapp etc
16:11 < adamw> but don't let me project stop energy at you :P
16:11 < handsome_pirate> adamw: But, I'm not a GSoC person; I won't be going anywhere
16:11 < handsome_pirate> adamw: That would be wicked cool
16:11 < handsome_pirate> adamw: But, for starters, I want to follow KISS
16:12 < handsome_pirate> adamw: I'll ping mizmo or emichan to see about making it pretty
16:13 * handsome_pirate noms on steak and bacon tacos
16:15 < adamw> handsome_pirate: yeah, in fact, thinking about it, the matrices are the most easily drop-in-replacable thing
16:15 < adamw> you could just do a webapp which represents that layout more flexibly and that would drop right in and make things better
16:15 < adamw> good thinking
16:16 < handsome_pirate> Exactly what I was thinking to start out
16:17 < adamw> cool
16:17 < adamw> let's see, if i wrote a five minute spec for you...
16:17 < handsome_pirate> Aye
16:17 < adamw> we'd need a concept of tests, configurations, and releases
16:17 < adamw> and then a nice interface for querying the database based on those concepts
16:18 -!- streeter [streeter@nat/redhat/x-asubidnuwbirqiyg] has quit [Quit: Leaving]
16:18 < adamw> oh, and test level of course...and that might need to vary depending on the other concepts...hm
16:19 < adamw> handsome_pirate: so we need to express stuff like 'this test needs to be run on this config at alpha, on this config at beta, can optionally be run on this config, and is not applicable to this other one'
16:19 < adamw> and then some sort of awesome query engine so we can generate all sorts of different views, for working from and for searching
16:19 < adamw> SOUNDS EASY RITE?!
16:19 < handsome_pirate> adamw: For db query, maybe have some way to select a test case and then it shows a page with current results for that test case for all images
16:19 < handsome_pirate> heh
16:20 < adamw> oh and we need test category too
16:20 < handsome_pirate> Indeed
16:20 -!- tempus_fol [~tempus@gateway/tor-sasl/tempusfol] has joined #fedora-qa
16:20 < Cerlyn> Just don't try and do it within Mediawiki's own internal db unless they've made it so you don't have to flush every page to see an update
16:20 < adamw> sure, but i'm thinking stuff like 'show me all the required deployments tests for ARM that we haven't done since RC1'
16:20 < handsome_pirate> I've got something sort of floating around in my head
16:20 < adamw> Cerlyn: handsome's thinking of writing a webapp for it
16:20 < handsome_pirate> adamw: Aye
16:21 < Cerlyn> Yet another test case manager :/
16:21 < handsome_pirate> Cerlyn: Probably use something like sqllite
16:21 < handsome_pirate> Cerlyn: Do you think there's one out there we can adopt?
16:21 -!- weld [~weld(a)p57A83BEF.dip0.t-ipconnect.de] has joined #fedora-qa
16:22 < Cerlyn> handsome_pirate: I'd have to look. At one point Fedora was going to move to what RH was moving to (Nitrate) but that seem to have stopped
16:22 < handsome_pirate> adamw: Honestly, the hardest part for me is going to be the UI
16:22 < adamw> handsome_pirate: we're growing more and more test cases and test case sets and platforms, the wiki approach is definitely getting unwieldy
16:22 < Cerlyn> Mozilla was working on one which was supposed to be OSS & public friendly
16:22 < handsome_pirate> adamw: Indeed
16:22 < adamw> handsome_pirate: actually the more i think about it the more this would be awesome and we need it NOW
16:22 < handsome_pirate> adamw: Okay, I'll set to work
16:23 < adamw> Cerlyn: the neat thing here is we're just looking at a UI for the *matrices*
16:23 < adamw> Cerlyn: we're doing an end run around the whole tcms problem
16:23 < adamw> Cerlyn: the test cases can still be dumb wiki pages; what we really could do with is a much more flexible way of querying test case sets (and entering results)
16:24 < handsome_pirate> Cerlyn: All the test case managers I've seen won't do what we need to do
16:24 < Cerlyn> So your TCMS will import the Wiki data as a source
16:24 < adamw> Cerlyn: it doesn't need any data as a source. it's not a tcms.
16:24 < adamw> it's a webapp for representing views on the set of test cases.
16:24 < adamw> all it needs to know is the URLs of the test case pages. it does not care a jot about the contents.
16:25 < Cerlyn> then how does it know which test cases haven't been run yet?
16:25 < adamw> Cerlyn: we could build a simple one which just lets us look at groups of test cases and even that would be interesting, but yeah, we need it to store that
16:26 < adamw> handsome_pirate: i've been using trac's query interface a lot the last few days and it has its good points. i'm kinda thinking of something like that - a nice quick GUI 'query builder' which lets you generate all kinds of different views and save useful ones. we'd probably have a UI with some kind of overview for the current test build as the default, a set of canned queries, and the ui for building a custom one
16:27 -!- tyll [~till@fedora/tyll] has quit [Ping timeout: 246 seconds]
16:27 < adamw> Cerlyn: it shouldn't be _too_ hard to store that info, though. it really just needs to store...let's see, user foo ran test bar on configuration moo for release baa on (date)
16:28 < adamw> with result X, associated bug reports Y, freeform comment Z
16:28 < adamw> did I miss anything?
16:28 < handsome_pirate> adamw: I'm thinking that for the main overview (ie, where you could input results, get a quick view, etc), have a list of current test cases
16:29 < handsome_pirate> Click on one, and it expands to show current results and a place to input results
16:29 < handsome_pirate> Does that make sense?
16:29 < handsome_pirate> I'll follow trac's query page for setting up my own
16:29 < adamw> you might be best asking design team, like you said :) but let me think
16:29 < adamw> if we put ALL the test cases in one big list that's gonna be a bit overwhelming...
16:30 < handsome_pirate> True
16:30 * adamw tries to think what a UI would look like from a completely white page and is utterly terrified
16:30 * adamw never wants to be a designer
16:31 < handsome_pirate> I think the click on test case, it expands with info (at the least, link to wiki), test results, and place to enter test results may be a starting point
16:31 < handsome_pirate> I'll write up an email for the design list
16:31 < adamw> sure, if you just want to have a placeholder UI while you work on it it sounds fine
16:31 -!- Cerlyn [~cerlyn(a)173-12-75-9-miami.hfc.comcastbusiness.net] has quit [Remote host closed the connection]
16:32 < adamw> i suppose if you query the list in a certain way and then hit 'enter result' it should pre-fill the result thingy with your query restrictions
16:32 < adamw> (so if you query for ARM tests for F20 Alpha RC2, it should give you a report form with that config and release selected...)
16:32 < adamw> zoiks, i need to get back to working on what we have now, hehe :) i'll leave you to it
At this point, any help with figuring out how to make it look would be
much appreciated.
Thanks much,
John.
(1): Example: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_19_Alpha_RC1_Install
10 years, 3 months
Sourcing supplemental wallpaper submissions from other sources.
by Ryan Lerch
The guidelines[1] for the supplemental wallpaper submissions state that
you need permission from the author to submit the file. Does anyone know
the reasoning for this? Does it also apply to images that are in the
Public Domain?
I ask because there are many many awesome images in places like the NASA
image library that are public domain. These would be nice to source and
include in the submissions. Do i need to contact NASA to see if their
public domain images are okay for use as a Fedora wallpaper?
cheers,
ryanlerch
10 years, 3 months
Announcing Design Software
by Luya Tshimbalanga
Design software is a special interest group intended to package and
maintain software for design team.
It was born to fill the need to include design related tools unavailable
in Fedora repository.
The following mission is to
- Maintain the Design group in the comps.xml,
- Promote more the Design Suite,
- Actively maintain design-related packages,
- Tracking bugs and fix them when the main maintainer is inactive for a
certain periods
Design Software has FAS account named design-sw (Design Software in short).
The mailing list is design-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org where the
activity on maintaining packages occur.
The bugzilla alias is DESIGN-SW for tracking review related to design
packages and cc'ed to the design staff.
The wiki is located to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Design_Software with currently who
active members. Members can be design team or packagers.
At long term, Design Software will actively maintain the Design Suite
based on latest version on Gnome Desktop, participate reporting some
issue of development software packaged by some design team members and
be close with upstream as possible.
A thank you for Design Team for helping making this Special Interest
Group a reality and the Infrastructure team for setting up the FAS
account and the mailing list. Comments and feedback are welcome.
10 years, 3 months
Forming Design Team SIG
by Luya Tshimbalanga
SIG stands for Special Interest Group[0]. As the title speaks itself, it
is about forming a group specialized at maintaining packages related to
Design. KDE, Scientific, Robotics, Fonts[1] groups have them so why not
Design Team?
The reasons are:
- to list and track design related application not included in Fedora
repository
- to make like of packagers easier when one of them went missing or on
vacation.
- to consolidate all building in a single repository say
design-team.fedorapeople.org where development version of main tools
like Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus without disturbing the main repository
similar to Ubuntu PPA
- to gain more contact with upstream by helping them tracking bugs,
improve their software and provide a guideline of writing a good spec file
- Better interaction with Fonts and Desktop SIG.
- to maintain the list of Design packages in comps.xml for users
installing a different desktop environment i.e. KDE and such.
Feedback welcome.
Ref:
----
[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SIGs?rd=SIGs
[1]: https://fonts.fedoraproject.org
--
Luya Tshimbalanga
Graphic & Web Designer
E: luya(a)fedoraproject.org
W: http://www.coolest-storm.net
10 years, 3 months
Reminder meeting today
by S.Kemter
Hello mates,
That is just an reminder, that we planned an meeting for today:
27th of August at 6pm UTC in #fedora-design
as you might have noticed through Jaroslavs mail yesterday, the deadline
for the code name is extended until this friday, so we have no result yet.
But we might discuss the options Jaro mentioned in his mail and start
working on a solution
br gnokii
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10 years, 3 months
Re: [Design-team] Fedora 20 naming process delayed & Alpha consequences
by Jaroslav Reznik
----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 15:56 +0300, Vasilis Keramidas wrote:
> > I believe the second suggestion is the best. In this way:
> > a) A different wallpaper will be used to avoid confusion (the F19
> > supplementary wallpapers sounds as a good idea)
> > b) The design team will have enough time to create a F20 wallpaper for
> > the beta, based on the elected name.
>
> Agreed. The criterion is written the way it is specifically to allow for
> this. Throw any kind of placeholder artwork/wallpaper/whatever in there,
> just so long as it doesn't look the same as F19.
I talked to Gnokii, Design team will try to work on at least placeholder.
So I hope we are over surprise "oh, no artwork, blockiiiing" ;-).
Jaroslav
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10 years, 3 months
Fedora 20 naming process delayed & Alpha consequences
by Jaroslav Reznik
Hi,
due to bad communication, the deadline for F20 name was extended to
this Friday but this means the decision will probably come too late
for Design team to create artwork for Alpha and it's one of the
blocking criterion. The idea is to have different artwork to the
previous releases, so users are not confused what version they
are running.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Alpha_Release_Criteria#Desktop_ba...
There are several options.
1) don't tie artwork on name and Design team can brainstorm a
different one, still not much time left
2) use for Alpha some temporary solution different from F19 aka
one of F19 supplementary wps etc...
3) less preferable - don't be so strict for Alpha due to limited
time + issues with naming elections and apply this criterion for
Beta...
(I assume we are still in the beginning of artwork process)
Jaroslav
10 years, 3 months
