Fedora 19 Beta Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Available Now!

[Andre Robatino]

NOTE: The 64-bit Live LXDE is over its size target (700 MiB) and will
not fit on a standard 700 MiB CD.

As per the Fedora 19 schedule [1], Fedora 19 Beta Release Candidate 3
(RC3) is now available for testing. Content information, including
changes, can be found at
https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5602#comment:16 . Please see the
following pages for download links (including delta ISOs) and testing
instructions. Normally dl.fedoraproject.org should provide the fastest
download, but download-ib01.fedoraproject.org is available as a mirror
(with an approximately 1 hour lag) in case of trouble. To use it, just
replace "dl" with "download-ib01" in the download URL.

Installation:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test

Base:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test

Desktop:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test

Ideally, all Alpha and Beta priority test cases for Installation [2],
Base [3], and Desktop [4] should pass in order to meet the Beta Release
Criteria [5]. Help is available on #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net [6],
or on the test list [7].

Create Fedora 19 Beta test composes (TC) and release candidates (RC)
https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5602

Current Blocker and Freeze Exception bugs:
http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current

[1] http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-19/f-19-quality-tasks.html
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Installation_validation_testing
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Base_validation_testing
[4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Desktop_validation_testing
[5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Beta_Release_Criteria
[6] irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-qa
[7] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 00:42 -0400, Andre Robatino wrote:
> NOTE: The 64-bit Live LXDE is over its size target (700 MiB) and will
> not fit on a standard 700 MiB CD.
>
> As per the Fedora 19 schedule [1], Fedora 19 Beta Release Candidate 3
> (RC3) is now available for testing. Content information, including

Before anyone yells - there is an obvious showstopper in Beta RC3. Most
of the major desktops don't show up on the DVD. It seems to be a problem
with the comps file on the DVD, but I haven't figured it out any more
closely than that. It may be somehow related to the 'yum warning
message' Ed posted on Saturday, but I'm not sure.

The bug report for this is
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=965940 . I expect Dennis or
Bill would be best placed to figure this one out; I'm sure they'll be
looking at it ASAP in the morning.