[Test-Announce] Proven tester status

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 08:46 -0500, Vincent L. wrote:
> Thanks for the stats and information.   
> 
> How big is the gap in testing.   
> 
> Is there a significant amount of package releases etc walked back
> because after they passed minimum time in QA and were published it
> turned out they were broken ?   Ie. percent wise or some other metric
> or in the absence of that a gut assessment.

No, we almost never revert updates. I can't recall a single instance of
it happening recently. When an update breaks something the packager
usually simply ships a quick fix as a subsequent update.

> Are certain areas in more need of focus than others due to criticality
> and lack of testing/testers ?  If so what areas are those ?

The packages we'd like most to have test plans are those on the critical
path - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_path_package ,
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mash/rawhide-20120101/logs/critpath.txt .

> Wanting to get a handle on things around here so I can understand
> where I can be most effective in helping out.  I want to look into the
> automated qa testing via this link
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AutoQA 

Great. AutoQA has its own mailing list, and the wiki should have lots of
helpful info and contacts for getting started.
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