[Fedora 38] Call for Test Days
by Sumantro Mukherjee
Hi Fedora users, developers, and friends!
It's time to start thinking about Test Days for Fedora 38.
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 fedora-qa pagure - here's
an example https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/issue/624 . For
instructions on hosting a Test Day, see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/SOP_Test_Day_management .
You can see the schedule at https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/issues?tags=test+days .
There are many slots open right now. 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 Beta 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 time frame 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 time frame you'd
like, and we'll figure it out from there.
If you don't want to run your own Test Day, but you are willing to
help with another, feel free to join one or more of already accepted
Test Days:
GNOME Test Day*
i18n Test Day*
Kernel Test Week(s)*
Upgrade Test Day*
IoT Test Week*
Cloud Test Day*
Fedora CoreOS Test Week*
And don't be afraid, there are a lot of more slots available for your
own Test Day!
[*] These are the test days we run generally to make sure everything
is working fine, the dates get announced as we move into the release
cycle.
If you have any questions about the Test Day process, please don't
hesitate to contact me or any member of the Fedora QA team on test at
lists.fedoraproject.org or in #fedora-qa on IRC. Thanks!
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//sumantro
Fedora QE
TRIED AND PERSONALLY TESTED, ERGO TRUSTED
1 year, 4 months
Fedora 35 is End of Life
by Tomas Hrcka
Hello all,
As of the 13th of December 2022, Fedora 35
has reached its end of life for updates and support.
No further updates, including security updates, will be
available for Fedora 35 after the said date. All the updates of Fedora
35 being pushed to stable will be stopped as well.
Fedora 36 will continue to receive updates until approximately one
month after the release of Fedora 38. The maintenance schedule of
Fedora releases is documented on the Fedora Project wiki [0]. The
Fedora Project wiki also contains instructions [1] on how to upgrade
from a previous release of Fedora to a version receiving updates.
Regards,
Tomas Hrcka
Fedora Release Engineering
[0]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle#Maintenance_Sc...
[1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading?rd=DistributionUpgrades
1 year, 4 months
Proposal to CANCEL: 2022-12-26 Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson
Hi folks! I'm proposing we cancel the QA meeting on 2022-12-26. This is
the quiet time of year when most folks are enjoying the holidays.
Today's meeting we gave up on as only three of us showed up, I don't
expect better turnout on Boxing Day and I don't have anything important
for the agenda. If anyone else does, please yell :)
Thanks folks!
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Adam Williamson
Fedora QA
IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha
https://www.happyassassin.net
1 year, 4 months