QualityAssurance
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
Test Days
Last week's Test Day[1] on 2010-09-02 was on preupgrade[2], the Fedora in-place upgrade system. There was a good turnout for the Test Day, and it exposed several serious bugs to be resolved for the Beta and final releases of Fedora 14. Rui He provided a recap of the event[3] with a list of the bugs discovered.
This week's Test Day[4] on systemd[5], the new initialization system being introduced in Fedora 14, has happened already, since it was moved up from the usual Thursday slot to Tuesday 2010-09-07. A great turnout of testers exercised systemd extensively and did a good job of discovering bugs to be fixed. Even though the test day itself is past, further testing of systemd would be valuable, so if you have some free time, do check out the page and contribute your results!
Next week's Test Day[6] on 2010-09-16 will be on translations and keyboard layout support in the Fedora installer. These features are key for Fedora users outside the United States, which is most of you! As always, the Test Day will run all day in the #fedora-test-day IRC channel. You can help out with testing using a live image or a virtual machine, so there's no need to alter your main system, although some of the tests do require you to complete an installation and check the installed system. Please drop by and help make sure as many languages and keyboard layouts as possible will be correctly supported in Fedora 14!
If you would like to propose a main track Test Day for the Fedora 14 cycle, please contact the QA team via email or IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[7].
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-02_Preupgrade
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Preupgrade
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-September/093329.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-07_Systemd
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/systemd
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2010-09-16_AnacondaTranslationKeyboard
- ↑ http://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/
Proven testers
During the QA weekly meeting of 2010-08-30[1], James Laska asked what to do about an email from a proven tester asking to become a group sponsor so he could sponsor new proven testers members. Adam Williamson pointed out the proven tester wiki page already has a procedure for this[2], albeit a fairly casual one. He recommended simply accepting the request for now, and suggested that if anyone wanted to make the process more systematic, they should send a proposal to the mailing list. James also asked about the progress of proven tester metrics, and Adam pointed out that a ticket requesting support from the Bodhi team already existed[3], and promised to follow up on the ticket for the next meeting.
Outdated Firefox package in Fedora 14
David Boles pointed out[1] that the Firefox package in Fedora 14 was somewhat old. Adam Williamson contacted the maintainers and passed on their explanation[2] that they had forgotten that Fedora 14 updates now had to be submitted through Bodhi, and that they would soon submit a newer Firefox package.
Bugzilla voting disabled
Kamil Paral wondered why he had recieved a mail about votes being removed[1]. Kevin Fenzi explained that this was due to the Bugzilla voting feature being disabled[2]. FESCo had decided the system was so flawed it provided no useful data, and so should be disabled. They had not known Bugzilla would send out notification emails about this. He explained that FESCo was now looking at using CC lists or comment quantities to provide an indication of 'popular' bugs, but that this too was proving problematic, and pointed out a ticket where this was being tracked[3].