Call for Test Days for Fedora 18
by Adam Williamson
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!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net
11 years, 2 months
Fedora 18 Virt Test Day is this Thurs Nov 1!
by Cole Robinson
Hey all,
The Fedora 18 Virt Test Day is this Thursday, November 1st. That's two days
away! The test day landing page is here (still being expanded):
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-11-01_Virtualization
If you're interested in trying out some new virt functionality, we've got
step by step instructions for:
* Using snapshots to backup disk images of a live VM with no VM downtime
* Assigning a physical USB3 device to your VM
* Assign a local USB device to your VM, even if the VM is on a remote machine!
* Setting disk IO bandwidth limits on your VM
* Suspend and Hibernate your VMs
* Enabling the PV EOI performance optimization for your VMs
* Using kernel syscall filters (seccomp) to further secure your host
against VM exploits (currently busted but we are working on a fix)
Of course, maybe you don't care about new features. We still need you! The
test day is the perfect time to make sure your virt workflow is working fine
on Fedora 18, as there will be several developers on hand to answer any
questions, help with debugging, provide patches, etc. No requirement to run
through test cases on the wiki, just show up and let us know what works (or
breaks).
If you plan on showing up to the test day, add your name to the participant
list on the wiki, and on thursday, pop into #fedora-test-day on freenode
and give us a shout!
Thanks,
Cole
11 years, 5 months
Fedora 18 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting, Thursday, November 01 @ 17:00 UTC (1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific)
by Jaroslav Reznik
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this important
meeting, wherein we shall determine the readiness of the Fedora 18 Beta.
Thursday, November 01, 2012 @17:00 UTC (13:00 EDT/10:00 PDT/18:00 CET)
"Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet
to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release.
This meeting is called the Go/No-Go Meeting."
"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of
the QA Team."
For more details about this meeting see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting
In the meantime, keep an eye on the Fedora 18 Beta Blocker list:
http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/18/beta/buglist
Reminder: Fedora 18 Beta readiness meeting follows the Go/No-Go meeting
in two hours (19:00 UTC, 3pm Eastern, 12pm Pacific).
Btw. please check time against UTC as we are during the daylight saving
time change period...
Jaroslav
11 years, 5 months
2012-10-29 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson
# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting
# Date: 2012-10-29
# Time: 15:00 UTC
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto)
# Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net
Greetings testers!
It's meeting time again tomorrow. Obviously the most important topic now
is the Beta; we have the Go/No-Go this week and we need to get blockers
knocked off and an RC spun up ASAP. We could discuss the LVM-by-default
bug, though it may be best just to leave that to FESCo. And we have a
few release criteria / test case revision topics open as usual.
This is a reminder of the upcoming QA meeting. Please add any topic
suggestions to the meeting wiki page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20121029
The current proposed agenda is included below.
== Proposed Agenda Topics ==
1. Previous meeting follow-up
2. Fedora 18 Beta status / mini blocker review
3. Release criteria / test cases
4. Open floor
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net
11 years, 5 months
LVM autopart testing
by Adam Williamson
Hey, folks.
So the Big LVM Autopart Controversy has been kicked upstairs to FESCo:
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/964
If they say 'go with LVM', we'll have to do that.
I have no idea what FESCo will decide, but we should cover our bets
either way, I think, so it will do no harm to do some testing of the LVM
autopart stuff over the weekend rather than wait till after FESCo makes
up its mind.
So, for those doing validation testing, if you could run a few test
installs with LVM autopart and make sure everything's okay that'd be
great. There's nowhere formal to report results - just yell on the list
if you find a bug that doesn't affect ext4 autopart.
I have a couple of updates.imgs available:
http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/updates-lvm.img against 18.19 (TC6)
http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/updates-lvm-1821.img against 18.21
(smoke12, possibly TC7)
The first is for anaconda 18.19 - what's in TC6. The second is for
anaconda 18.21 - what's in smoke12 and would possibly be in TC7. If more
anaconda builds show up, I'll provide updates.img for them following the
same name scheme.
All you really have to do to test is use these updates.imgs and do a
regular old autopart install. Two things should happen - the install
shouldn't explode (unless you hit some unrelated bug, of course) and you
should get LVs for your system partitions (not /boot) by default, just
as you did with F17 and earlier. If you hit a problem, do test *without*
the updates.img too before pulling the fire alarm, just in case it's not
anything to do with the LVM change.
You can also test autopart-within-custom-partitioning if you like. The
button in custom part that says something like 'create partitions
automatically'. It should also give you LVM-based partitioning with this
patch. (It does for me, I checked).
Thanks everyone!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net
11 years, 5 months
2012-10-22 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson
# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting
# Date: 2012-10-22
# Time: 15:00 UTC
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto)
# Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net
Greetings testers!
It's meeting time again tomorrow. This is going to look a bit like
groundhog day - once again we're checking in on the Beta freeze status
and blocker list. We also haven't got anywhere concrete on the
partitioning criteria so it might be worth kicking that around some.
This is a reminder of the upcoming QA meeting. Please add any topic
suggestions to the meeting wiki page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20121022
The current proposed agenda is included below.
== Proposed Agenda Topics ==
1. Previous meeting follow-up
2. Fedora 18 Beta status / mini blocker review
3. Release criteria / test cases
4. Open floor
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora
http://www.happyassassin.net
11 years, 6 months
