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Pat Kelly
Pat Kelly


I can be reached at pmkellly AT frontier DOT com.
I can be reached at pmkellly AT frontier DOT com. This page updated (10/2019)


I am an electrical engineer, but please don't hold that against me. I have experience writing code in many languages from direct machine code in hex to esoteric things like Lisp. However, C, or it's children were not among them. I am currently a Python user. I am familiar with testing and troubleshooting strategies and techniques, but I've never used automated tools for testing software before this.
I am an electrical engineer, but please don't hold that against me. I have experience writing code in many languages from direct machine code in hex (IBM SYS 360 Model 20 to Motorola 68000) and esoteric things like Lisp (SUN, but never had to touch the UNIX). However, C, or it's children were not among them. I am currently an occasional Python user. I am familiar with testing and troubleshooting strategies and techniques, but I've never used automated tools for testing software before this.


I abandon that west coast OS back at F16 time frame and have been a user ever since. Now I've decided I want to help. My experience leads me to believe that QA would be a good place to start. In my carrer I have seen many new engineers sent to the QA lab to work for a year so they would become familiar with the details of the product systems. Perhaps that will work for me in this new context.
I abandon that west coast OS back at F16 time frame and have been a user ever since. I joined the QA group about two years ago. This has worked out nicely for me. I have certainly learned a lot and I like to think I have been helping in a small way.


Currently (04/15/2018) I am a few weeks into this now and I think I'm making fewer silly mistakes and asking fewer silly. Please continue to bear with me while I continue to learn.
Starting with F30 I have been testing the Rawhide drops that have been assigned test events. I've also been doing some reading about the Fedora project trying to get a feel for what things are and how things get done.
 
I have been testing some of the nightly drops for F28, and I have put some information on my Talk / Discussion page on how I go about this incase someone is curious or needs to know.

Latest revision as of 15:16, 20 October 2019

Pat Kelly

I can be reached at pmkellly AT frontier DOT com. This page updated (10/2019)

I am an electrical engineer, but please don't hold that against me. I have experience writing code in many languages from direct machine code in hex (IBM SYS 360 Model 20 to Motorola 68000) and esoteric things like Lisp (SUN, but never had to touch the UNIX). However, C, or it's children were not among them. I am currently an occasional Python user. I am familiar with testing and troubleshooting strategies and techniques, but I've never used automated tools for testing software before this.

I abandon that west coast OS back at F16 time frame and have been a user ever since. I joined the QA group about two years ago. This has worked out nicely for me. I have certainly learned a lot and I like to think I have been helping in a small way.

Starting with F30 I have been testing the Rawhide drops that have been assigned test events. I've also been doing some reading about the Fedora project trying to get a feel for what things are and how things get done.