Fedora 12 QA retrospective - feedback needed

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Wed Nov 25 20:11:38 UTC 2009



On Nov 25, 2009, at 11:44, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 14:29 -0500, James Laska wrote:
>> Greetings folks,
>>
>> Whether you call it a post-mortem, retrospective or lessons  
>> learned ...
>> the end result is the same.  I'd like to collect thoughts on how
>> good/bad of a job the QA group did in planning and testing the  
>> Fedora 12
>> release.  In keeping with the release-wide retrospective from  
>> Fedora 11
>> [1], feel free to share any wishlist items as well.
>>
>> I've started the discussion on the wiki at
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_QA_Retrospective.
>>
>> Adding your thoughts is easy ...
>>      * Edit the wiki directly (instructions provided for ~anonymous
>>        feedback)
>>      * Or, reply to this mail (I'll collect feedback and add to the
>>        wiki)
>>
>> Over the next week, I plan to organize any feedback and discuss the
>> highlights during an upcoming QA team meeting.  The goal will be to
>> prioritize the pain points and use as a basis for defining objectives
>> for Fedora 13.
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback!
>> James
>
> 1) in the end, we focused heavily on just three component areas for
> testing: anaconda, kernel, and X.org. This is primarily a function of
> the fact that these are the most vital bits; it feels like we're still
> at the point of doing 'let's make sure it's not totally broken'  
> testing
> than 'let's make sure it's really good' testing. We didn't do stuff  
> like
> making sure the desktop was polished.

Define the "we" here as the desktop team did put a lot of time into  
polish of the desktop.
>


--
Jes




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