Hello all,
Please sign me on for 5-20 hours a week of QA-related work... not sure just where I fit in yet; feedback is of course welcome.
I have been using Fedora for the past 3 years as a staging platform for websites which live on CentOs. Before that I have been using Unix/Linux for the past 30 or so years as an application platform but also with a brief foray into the System V/386 kernel. Currently I work full-time as the web guy / admin for a non-profit maintaining a fairly complex low-volume website.
Fedora seems a little better than most of the other variants of Linux; I am on a fc17 Gnome spin right now. I have a couple of laptops lurking around which I can use for loading newer builds. I have lots of skills with historical tools, ranging from C/C++ (I still recognize assembly), make/sed/awk/bash/etc., some Java, some git, and the usual gamut of SQL and PHP skills. I do not mind triage, but someone will probably need to point me in the right direction to get started testing ruby-on-rails or Python or IRC. I don't mind getting all dirty with stack traces and compiling to point fingers at the right problem.
I am available only after 8-5 work hours in Pacific Time. Please let me know where the need is greatest and what is appropriate for a newbie to your process. Thanks.
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 11:08:27PM -0700, Scott Corcoran wrote:
Please sign me on for 5-20 hours a week of QA-related work...
not sure just where I fit in yet; feedback is of course welcome.
Hi Scott, and welcome! I'll let someone who is more hands-on in QA answer the "what's most urgent" part, but given your background and current work, maybe helping out with QA for either Fedora Cloud or Fedora Server -- we have some initial test plans but there's a lot more to do. (Both in writing plans and "turning the crank" of actually doing the testing.)
There's also work on our new automated QA framework, Taskotron. That has plenty of room for feature development, and then also actually making and deploying automated tests.
PS: if you haven't seen https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join, that's got some good QA-newbie starting points too.
On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 12:48 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 11:08:27PM -0700, Scott Corcoran wrote:
Please sign me on for 5-20 hours a week of QA-related work...
not sure just where I fit in yet; feedback is of course welcome.
Hi Scott, and welcome! I'll let someone who is more hands-on in QA answer the "what's most urgent" part, but given your background and current work, maybe helping out with QA for either Fedora Cloud or Fedora Server -- we have some initial test plans but there's a lot more to do. (Both in writing plans and "turning the crank" of actually doing the testing.)
There's also work on our new automated QA framework, Taskotron. That has plenty of room for feature development, and then also actually making and deploying automated tests.
PS: if you haven't seen https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join, that's got some good QA-newbie starting points too.
A very belated 'hi' (guess who just found a bunch of old mail lying around) from me too! Indeed help with Cloud and/or Server work would be most welcome. One large project at present is updating the Fedora testing processes for the "Fedora.next" changes - we wrote new release criteria and validation tests for Alpha, but we have not yet completed the same work for Beta and Final. I really need to kick off that process, in fact, so thanks for the reminder - look out for some emails to try and start that process going to this list and/or server@, workstation@ and cloud@ soon.
In the mean time, we are still waiting for the first official F21 Alpha TC to start the formal release validation process, but new images are generated nightly and we have been doing some testing of the nightly images, tracked in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_21_Nightly_2014_08_Instal... and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_21_Nightly_2014_08_Base . It'd be good to have some baseline testing of the Server and Cloud nightly images - Stephen Gallagher has been working on Server testing, but I'm sure he'd welcome some help.
Welcome, again, and thanks for joining!