2012-11-05 through 2013-01-28 - Fedora QA Meetings - recaps

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 02/02/2013 02:56 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 21:42 -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>>> Additionally, there is some history to Bugzappers as a separate
>> project
>>          which was before my time, but as Johann has explained it to
>>          me, it was
>>          something of a 'I'm taking my ball and going home!' thing that
>>          led to it
>>          being set up as a separate sub-project outside of QA
>>
>>
>> .IIRC Bugzappers as a group existed years before "QA" as a project
>> existed but that isn't really important now.
> For the record, the current incarnation of BugZappers dates to March
> 2008:
> http://blog.jds2001.org/random_thoughts/2008/03/fedora-bugzappers-relaunch.html
>
> The previous incarnation dates to July 2005:
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/triage/2005-July/000000.html
>
> that incarnation got very little traction, the list archives are '2
> mails a month' stuff all the way from Sept 2005 through April 2008.
>
> "Fedora QA" appears to have been birthed by Will Woods on Dec 4, 2006:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2006-December/054169.html
>
> oh, from such tiny acorns...
>
> (yes, I love this history stuff, is it obvious by now?)
>
> So yeah, technically 'BugZappers' predates 'QA', but the original
> BugZappers seems to have been almost DOA.

I must have been high back in the day if "bugzappers" predate ga Will 
Woods care to comment on this ;)

JBG