New section in Installation test matrix: i18n/l10n (non-English installs)

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 08:56:00 UTC 2015


> Hey folks! While looking at old trac tickets -
> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/81 - I noticed that we
> actually have test cases for non-English installs:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:I18n_Installation
> 
> but we've never put them in the release validation test pages. At
> present we cover keymap testing via the encrypted install and desktop
> login test cases, but whenever it's come up in the past, no-one's
> seemed really happy about that approach. And we haven't ever had an
> explicit test case for 'run the installer in languages other than
> English', even though we frequently encounter bugs in that - I usually
> do actually test it, but often later than we should be doing.
> 
> So since we have these test cases around already, I figured let's just
> go ahead and use them. I've added a new section to the Installation
> matrix template:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Template:Installation_test_matrix#Internationalization_and_Localization
> 
> tomorrow I plan to clean up and modernize the test cases a bit, and
> then drop the non-English keymap bits from the other test cases.
> 
> As we've been over this before and I was usually the only one who
> defended the 'do it in other test cases' approach I figured it was
> fine to just go ahead and do this, but if anyone has objections,
> please say so :)

I think it's good to separate this. Thanks, Adam.


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