Quick introduction, infrastructure stuff for qa

[Mike McGrath]

On 1/16/07, Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I'm Will Woods, and I'm the lead tester / head of QA for Fedora.
>
> We're hard at work on bunches of tools and ideas to help test Fedora and
> make things better.. faster.. stronger.
>
> Right now, we've got a couple of repositories of packages for testing
> that live in David Malcolm's people page:
> http://people.redhat.com/dmalcolm/tablecloth/
>
> We're also going to be writing some web apps that will need somewhere to
> live - something to keep track of testing progress / results, some
> bugzilla-related stuff, a frontend for an automated test lab, and so on.
> We don't have any hosting for any of it right now, but I'd like this
> stuff to live somewhere like http://qa.fedoraproject.org/.
>
> I'd like to have an official QA repo for our test tools and test
> packages, hosted at something like http://qa.fedoraproject.org/repo/.
>
> Most importantly, we need some help very soon. We currently have a
> problem - dmalcolm is out of disk quota, so he can't push bugfixed
> versions of the test tools out until we get a new host for the repos.
> This is bad!
>
> The amount of disk space we'll need is quite small - I think the
> packages currently take up something like 3MB. We'll be collecting test
> data and results and accumulating tests, but I don't anticipate this
> being a significant amount of data (say >10GB) for months, maybe years.
>
> Can we make this stuff happen? How do we get started?
>

Yooo Will.  This should be very doable.  What exactly will be in the
space and how will it get there?  Will you need a shell?  Will you
need shell access from the outside world?  Will the
hosted.fedoraproject.org site work?

           -Mike