future f12 test days

psmith johnsmithdoe14 at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 2 19:46:12 UTC 2009


Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 05:00:51PM +0200, Christoph H�ger wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> so testdays are a really cool way of testing feature progress during an
>> alpha/beta cycle. I guess upstream projects really love all those corner
>> cases being tested.
>>
>> So as Paul stated
>> (http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1577)
>>
>> The wiki is public now, which makes it possible to test features (and
>> post the results) for everybody not only FAS members. This is definitely
>> a good thing, but I guess there are a few more points to make that work:
>>
>> a) we should _always_ have USB images ready. That should lower the
>> testing costs to zero.
>>
>> b) we need public attention (aka PR), I already tried to get that into
>> some german online media and phoronix for nouveau test day, but with
>> little success (only prolinux.de reacted). I guess no one will make a
>> headline for every testday, so it would be a good idea to bring
>> attention to the test days (and the schedule) in the alpha release notes
>> (and pounce the media on those). Some ambassadors having PR experience
>> here?
>>     
>
> Cc'ing the fedora-docs-list to reference above.
>
> I added a placeholder note for that future page:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes
>
>   
>> c) make the test cases as automated as possible. Offer sending smolt
>> profile (smoltGUI) and run test cases directly from the desktop. Also We
>> should add a link (or the document itself) about how to test what and
>> why to the desktop. If it's possible for the test generated results
>> should also be posted automagically to the results page, or, if tests
>> fail, bug reports could be created by bugbuddy.
>>     
>
> Not sure if bugbuddy adds any heft to the Live images.  Regardless
> though, I actually was talking to James Laska about this just the
> other day.  The easier the community uptake, the more people can dive
> in and get involved.
>
> I've found the Live images really helped me.  I don't tend to have a
> lot of time to devote to testing, yet I was able to successfully
> run some tests and generate a few bug reports for the Nouveau test
> day.  It was a great experience and I'd like as many other people to
> enjoy it as possible.
>
> I'd suggest that followups on this go to fedora-test-list, since
> that's typically where the QA folks do the bulk of their planning and
> execution.
>
>   
also if you are moving to using usb images for the test days surely the 
700mb cd limit can be stretched a little if needed for the live image?




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