My task for the next ~6 months

Samuel Greenfeld greenfeld at laptop.org
Mon Feb 20 21:56:17 UTC 2012


I had a similar conversation on test cases while trying to plan for an
upcoming test day:

http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/testing/2012-February/002609.html

In general, it might be useful to know how skilled most test day
participants are at testing, as well as the test approach preferred by the
Fedora project as a whole when planning these events.



2012/2/20 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com>

> On 02/20/2012 04:19 AM, Jon Stanley wrote:
>
>> I had a conversation with Adam at FUDCon about things that might be
>> beneficial to QA that I could champion and make sure that it happened,
>> and provide regular status reports, the whole nine yards. What we came
>> up with is updating "How to debug" and "How to test" pages in the
>> wiki, soliciting input from maintainers, etc.
>>
>
> When I initiated that effort after those initial proposals of mine I came
> pretty fast to the conclusion that in order to be able to do that we needed
> to have it mandatory for packagers/maintainers to submit at least a minimum
> debugging information for new components which we QA ( or more me at the
> time )  could create proper debugging pages around that info.
>
> I even went to the lengths to request that from Fesco/FPC which settled on
> making it "optional" for packagers to do so.
>
> Needless to say now 6000+ components later we have no more how to debug or
> how to test pages then we did back then which makes it pretty evident that
> unless fesco/fpc make it mandatory you will be chasing your tail and other
> maintainers for a long time before it's completed.
>
> I appraise your efforts in taking up the torch where I left it and my
> advice to you is start with the critical path packages then work your way
> up from there.
>
> JBG
>
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