Hey, everyone. It was a hard slog, but we finally managed to do an F16 RC1 build yesterday. We only have a few days before the go/no-go meeting on Tuesday so we could really do with your help to get through validation as fast as possible. If RC1 proves to pass validation we have until Tuesday to do it, but really it'd be great if we could complete validation over the weekend, so if any further issues are found, we have a fighting chance to re-spin and re-validate on Monday.

The RC is available here:

http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/16.RC1/

The desktop validation page, with all the tests, results matrix, and testing instructions, is here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_16_Final_RC1_Desktop

Please, if you have any spare time at all this weekend, grab the DVD or live image for your desktop and help us fill out the validation matrix!

If you hit a bug which is clearly a 'fail' - the test just doesn't pass at all - if you're testing GNOME Shell, GNOME fallback, or KDE, file a bug and mark it as blocking 'F16Blocker'. (If you don't have the privileges to do this, mail me the bug ID and I'll do it). If you're testing any other desktop, file a bug and mark it as blocking 'F16-accepted'. Then report your result for the test as {{result|fail| username|bugid}}.

If you hit a bug while doing a test but it doesn't really mean the test is completely failed - just some issue that happened to come up while you were doing the test - file the bug, and report your result for the test as {{result|warn|username|bugid}}. use your judgment as to whether the bug should be proposed as a blocker or nice-to-have or not proposed at all, depending on how serious it seems.

We fixed quite a lot of desktop issues for RC1. For Desktop, we fixed the issue with clutter-dependent apps crashing when hardware 3D acceleration is not available and the subsequently-discovered issue where clutter-based video playback and capture fails when hardware 3D isn't available. For KDE, we fixed the two issues which prevented KDE running properly in a VM with either qxl or cirrus drivers: KDE should now work fine inside KVMs. For Xfce, we took a bunch of the NTH-nominated fixes. So, I'm hoping this means we've already had quite a lot of testing with the TCs, and the RCs should be pretty good.

Thanks everyone!