2011-07-11 - Fedora QA Meeting - recap

[James Laska]

As always, minutes and IRC transcript available on the wiki at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20110711

TOPIC: Gnome Shell duplicate application names
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      * Renaming of xfce-terminal application being discussed upstream
      * Waiting for desktop@ feedback to resolve duplicate
        system-config-* application names
      * Not a BLOCKER for Fedora 16, but considered a NTH
      * ACTION: j_dulaney will check-in with desktop team for guidance
        on s-c-* -- thank you j_dulaney!!!


TOPIC: Fedora 16 - Rawhide acceptance testing 
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      * Fedora 16 QA schedule -
        http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-16/f-16-quality-tasks.html
      * twu agreed to lead Rawhide Acceptance Tests for Fedora 16, will
        be testing and posting a matrix for review starting this week
      * Brunowolf and athmane discussed some grub related issues that
        may impact the Alpha (e.g.
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=718722)
      * Jlaska also reminded that, coming to a #fedora-bugzappers
        channel near you, this Friday, July 15 -- Alpha Blocker Meeting
        (f16alpha) #1.  For the current list of proposed and accepted
        blockers, refer to
        https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Current_Release_Blockers
      * ACTION: jlaska will announce F16 Alpha blocker review meeting on
        Wednesday


TOPIC: AutoQA updates
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      * AutoQA 0.5.0 released - "the new spam-less autoqa is awesome,
        thanks everyone" -athmane
      * Related announcement blog posts include
        http://kparal.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/autoqa-0-5-0-released/
        and http://blog.tirfa.com/autoqa-050-spamalot-less
      * Work has started on discussing 0.6.0 development -
        https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2011-July/002524.html
      * A nice new AutoQA release process SOP is in the works -
        https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA_Release_Process
      * There is a scheduled AutoQA outage this Tuesday, July 12 -
        moving to new hardware and vlan.  tflink volunteered to send a
        more formal announcement letting maintainers know 
      * Jlaska discussed the possibility of upgrading the autoqa server
        to RHEL6, tflink looking forward to no longer supporting
        python2.4 in autoqa


TOPIC: R^3 - Retrospective recommendation review
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      * Just a reminder that if you are looking to get involved in
        Fedora QA ... and looking for something to do ... the
        retrospective is another good place to look
      * flying unicorns and/or cucumbers will be considered as rewards
      * More information avialable at
        https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_QA_Retrospective#Recommendations


TOPIC: Cloud SIG testing
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      * This was a topic that rbergeron raised a few meetings back ...
        looking for volunteers to help validate F15 EC2 images
      * athmane answered the call and created a TRAC ticket
        (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/212) and test day
        page
        (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Athmane/Draft_Test_Day_Cloud_SIG_Fedo...)
      * The remaining issues include 1) how the AMIs should be built,
        and 2) figure out how to reimburse testers for participating in
        testing Fedora AMIs
      * ACTION: rbergeron will reach out to cloud-sig for a last call on
        test case ideas


TOPIC: Security lab SPIN matrix
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      * https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/207
      * adamw suggested adjusting the existing release validation SOP to
        include the new Security SPIN matrix
      * athmane volunteered to propose changes to the release SOP to
        include the Security SPIN matrix in
        https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/SOP_Release_Validation_Test_Event


ACTION ITEMS
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     1. j_dulaney will check-in with desktop team for guidance on s-c-*
        -- thank you j_dulaney!!!
     2. jlaska will announce F16 Alpha blocker review meeting on
        Wednesday
     3. rbergeron will reach out to cloud-sig for a last call on test
        case ideas
     4. athmane volunteered to update update release validation SOP to
        include new Security SPIN test matrix