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
Thursday 2011-04-21 was the last of three GNOME 3 Test Days[1]. The event went off smoothly with a good turnout of testers finding the GNOME 3 experience mostly polished but still exposing several bugs for the developers to work on. Vitezslav Humpa posted a recap[2] of the event.
Today, 2011-04-28, is cloud Test Day, where the cloud SIG is guiding testers in running Fedora 15 on Amazon's EC2 cloud, and testing out the Fedora 15 features BoxGrinder[3] (a tool designed to make it simple to rapidly create Fedora-based appliances and deploy them to various virtual platforms) and CloudFS[4] (a cloud-ready distributed filesystem). If you're interested in the cutting (bleeding?) edge of cloud development with Fedora, come and dive in to the BoxGrinder[5] and EC2[6] events!
The cloud events will likely be the final Test Days of the Fedora 15 cycle, as we move towards final freeze and the focus on stabilizing the release.
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-04-21_GNOME3_Final
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099381.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BoxGrinder
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/CloudFS
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-04-28_Cloud_SIG_BoxGrinder_Build
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-04-28_Cloud_SIG_Fedora_EC2
Beta testing
Many group members were testing the recently-released Fedora 15 Beta. Sean Darcy was having trouble with preupgrade[1], while Göran Uddeborg wondered where his system beep had gone[2]. Per Bothner was having trouble with his NVIDIA adapter[3], and Andre Robatino filed a bug[4] on an issue several testers had noted where enabling session saving could cause GNOME Shell to fail to start[5]. John Morris reported several issues he ran into[6], prompting responses explaining some of them. Thomas Gilliard continued to test Sugar nightly images[7] [8].
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099014.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099023.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099047.html
- ↑ http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698184
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099049.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099087.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099089.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/099173.html
Fedora 15 preparation
The second blocker bug review meeting for Fedora 15 final took place on Thursday 2011-04-21[1], due to the Good Friday holiday falling in many places on 2011-04-22. The group reviewed the full list of proposed and accepted final release blockers and made good progress. The first Test Compose for Fedora 15 is planned for 2011-05-02.