[Fedora-spins] IMPORTANT, please read: Spins QA signoff for milestones

[Amit Saha]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Fenzi" <kevin at scrye.com>
> To: "The Spin Special Interest Group mailing list" <spins at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Cc: ibmalone at gmail.com, test at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 9:53:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-spins] IMPORTANT, please read: Spins QA signoff for	milestones
> 
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:20:31 +0100
> Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 10 September 2013 23:31, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 17:59:29 -0400 (EDT)
> > > Amit Saha <asaha at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi Kevin,
> > >>
> > >> Is it sufficient to install the ISO on baremetal/VM and do some
> > >> basic testing of the applications?
> > >
> > > Yep. All we are looking for are the basic tests.
> > >
> > > Does it compose?
> > >
> > > Does it boot?
> > >
> > > Do things work after it boots?
> > >
> > > Does it install ?
> > >
> > > Do things work after the install?
> > >
> > 
> > Do spins fill in their own test matrix or on the main test compose
> > page? (I'm guessing the former since spin testers aren't necessarily
> > on the main QA team.)
> > 
> > (possibly not subscribed to the test list, so this mail may bounce
> > there.)
> 
> Well, for the 'desktop' spins, there is already:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_20_Alpha_TC5_Desktop#Non_release-blocking_desktops:_x86_.2F_x86_64
> 
> We could look at adding for other spins, or just do other tests as that
> spin needs.
> 
> Really what I want to prevent is us shipping something thats just
> obviously broken (as we have many times with spins in recent years).
 
I started something like that for the Fedora Scientific Spin [1].
Is that going to be useful?

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scientific_Packages_Testing

-Amit.


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