Desktop validation testing: round 1 coming soon!
by Adam Williamson
Hi, folks. Further to my earlier email about desktop validation testing
for Fedora 14, here's a note - or a reminder, if you knew already! -
that our first manual test point for the F14 cycle is due on Thursday,
with the Alpha 'Test Compose' (it's a sort of early-warning test build
that gives us some time to sort out any major kinks before we start
building Alpha RCs). When the build is up, Rui He or I will send or
forward you the official announcement, with links to the results matrix
and downloads and so forth. This is just a heads-up so you know it's
coming soon. It's probably worth doing a quick check of Rawhide to see
if there's any huge problems with your desktops which would make the TC
completely untestable, and if so, get 'em fixed before we build it :).
You can get nightly live builds at
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ if you want to
check quickly without installing Rawhide, though there've been some bugs
lately which broke the booting of live images, so they _may_ still be
unbootable. The nightlies are built and uploaded automatically, and
there are KDE, Xfce and LXDE builds there.
Thanks everyone!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
12 years, 10 months
Wrong Notification Daemon per default!
by Johannes Lips
Hey,
just installed the F13 Xfce Spin and noticed that it uses the
gnome-notification daemon rather than the xfce one.
Is this by purpose? I would suggest to switch to the xfce4-notifyd daemon.
Greetings,
Johannes
12 years, 10 months
having multiple workspace switchers on the panel
by Suvayu Ali
Hi everyone,
I have a dual monitor setup with xfce on F13. I would like to have a
workspace switcher on either of my screens. I have a panel at the
bottom of my primary screen with a workspace switcher applet, and I have
another panel on my second screen. I have both the applets set to the 2
row view.
Every time I log out or restart the panel rather, the workspace switcher
on my second screen defaults back to the default one row setup, even
though I have both of them setup as two rows. Right clicking the faulty
applet and bringing up the properties dialogue shows me, its correctly
set to 2. However changing the number has no effect on it.
Only thing that works is to remove the applet and add it again. When I
add it, it shows up as 2 rows, but the properties dialogue still shows 1
row. I change it to before closing. On logging out, its again back to
the default one row.
I tried to look for "pager" under $HOME/.config/xfce4/panel, and
$HOME/.config/xfce4* but I couldn't find anything that set the no of rows.
Any clues anyone?
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
12 years, 10 months
Desktop validation testing expansion
by Adam Williamson
Hi, everyone.
I'm sending this email to more widely announce something we've been
working on for a while. I've spoken to leaders of the XFCE, KDE and LXDE
teams about this. We'd like to propose expanding the desktop validation
testing that was initiated in the Fedora 13 cycle.
During F13, these tests were used to check for blocker bugs only for the
GNOME desktop. We did run the tests against some of the other desktops
at some checkpoints, but failures from those runs weren't considered as
blocking the release.
For the Fedora 14 cycle, I'd like to try to run the desktop validation
test set - that's the testing documented at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Desktop_validation_testing - on all
four major desktops at each checkpoint, and consider failures at the
relevant level to be release blocking bugs.
We've made some adjustments to the test suite already to reflect the
input from each SIG, and we may yet work on refining the procedure a
little more, but the outline of the plan is simple enough.
This would be technically on an experimental basis, as the GNOME testing
was during the F13 cycle; if it seems to be causing too much trouble and
making it impractical to work to our release plans, we might reconsider
the idea during the cycle. But we didn't have to do that for F13, and
I'd hope we won't have to for F14 either.
The leaders of the various desktop SIGs are fairly confident that their
SIGs will be able to contribute in running the tests and fixing blocker
issues promptly as they're identified. I think the QA group will also be
able to contribute to this process, particularly in carrying out the
testing.
If anyone from QA or any of the SIGs has comments or concerns on the
proposal, please air them now! Thanks a lot :)
If we do end up going ahead with the idea, I'll follow up with all of
the SIGs when we hit the first round of validation testing to keep you
all informed on how the process works and how to contribute to it.
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net
12 years, 10 months
