Fedora release model (was Re: Plan for tomorrow's FESCo meeting (2010-11-17))

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On 11/22/2010 01:59 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>    Do you have any suggestions how to manage ensuring that each ISO
>> snapshot has a working anaconda ?
> 
> This is the kind of thing automated testing would help a lot with; we
> already have some automated testing of anaconda in place, but it doesn't
> cover many paths, only the most basic - essentially it 'clicks through'
> anaconda with a very basic hardware setup and checks it can complete.
> 
> right now the only way to do it would be to run the automated testing as
> often as possible to catch basic breakage, and the manual installation
> validation test suite (done by the qa group members) on each ISO
> snapshot.


  Perhaps this can be helped by putting the staging area into a short
term freeze prior to things going to stable and make the ISO snapshot
available at that time (or maybe it should be rebuilt nightly as well do
you think?)

   That would give a chance for auto-qa as you described as well as
normal testers who may want to test a clean install from the snapshot.

  gene/