test-announce October 2012

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Call for Test Days for Fedora 18
by Adam Williamson 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Hey, folks. It's that time again - time to start thinking about Test Days for Fedora 18. For anyone who isn't aware, a Test Day is an event usually focused around IRC for interaction and a Wiki page for instructions and results, with the aim being to get a bunch of interested users and developers together to test a specific feature or area of the distribution. You can run a Test Day on just about anything for which it would be useful to do some fairly focused testing in 'real time' with a group of testers; it doesn't have to be code, for instance we often run Test Days for l10n/i18n topics. For more information on Test Days, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days . Anyone who wants to can host their own Test Day, or you can request that the QA group helps you out with organization, or any combination of the two. To propose a Test Day, just file a ticket in QA trac - full details are at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/Create . For instructions on hosting a Test Day, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/SOP_Test_Day_management . You can see the schedule at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_18_test_days . There are many slots open right now, with the earliest on 2012-08-09 and the latest 2012-11-01. Consider the development schedule, though, in deciding when you want to run your Test Day - for some topics you may want to avoid the time before the Alpha release or the time after the feature freeze or the Final freeze. We normally aim to schedule Test Days on Thursdays; however, if you want to run a series of related Test Days, it's often a good idea to do something like Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday of the same week (this is how we usually run the X Test Week, for instance). If all the Thursday slots fill up but more people want to run Test Days, we will open up Tuesday slots as overflows. And finally, if you really want to run a Test Day in a specific timeframe due to the development schedule, but the Thursday slot for that week is full, we can add a slot on another day. We're flexible! Just put in your ticket the date or timeframe you'd like, and we'll figure it out from there. If you have any questions about the Test Day process, please don't hesitate to contact me or any other member of the QA team on test@ or in #fedora-qa on IRC. Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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2012-10-31 @ 16:00 UTC - F18 Beta Blocker Bug Review #6
by Tim Flink 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

# F18 Beta Blocker Review meeting #6 # Date: 2012-10-31 # Time: 16:00 UTC [1] (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) # Location: #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net Keeping with what we've done for the last couple of weeks, we're planning to stop around the 3 hour mark if we're not done by then and resume on 2012-11-01. We'll be running through the beta blockers and nice-to-haves. The current list of blocker bugs is available at: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current We'll be reviewing the bugs to determine ... 1. Whether they meet the Beta release criteria [1] and should stay on the list 2. Whether they are getting the attention they need [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Beta_Release_Criteria For guidance on Blocker and Nice-to-have (NTH) bugs, please refer to - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_nth_bug_process For the blocker review meeting protocol, see - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting

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Fedora 18 Virt Test Day is this Thurs Nov 1!
by Cole Robinson 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hey all, The Fedora 18 Virt Test Day is this Thursday, November 1st. That's two days away! The test day landing page is here (still being expanded): https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-11-01_Virtualization If you're interested in trying out some new virt functionality, we've got step by step instructions for: * Using snapshots to backup disk images of a live VM with no VM downtime * Assigning a physical USB3 device to your VM * Assign a local USB device to your VM, even if the VM is on a remote machine! * Setting disk IO bandwidth limits on your VM * Suspend and Hibernate your VMs * Enabling the PV EOI performance optimization for your VMs * Using kernel syscall filters (seccomp) to further secure your host against VM exploits (currently busted but we are working on a fix) Of course, maybe you don't care about new features. We still need you! The test day is the perfect time to make sure your virt workflow is working fine on Fedora 18, as there will be several developers on hand to answer any questions, help with debugging, provide patches, etc. No requirement to run through test cases on the wiki, just show up and let us know what works (or breaks). If you plan on showing up to the test day, add your name to the participant list on the wiki, and on thursday, pop into #fedora-test-day on freenode and give us a shout! Thanks, Cole

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Fedora 18 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting, Thursday, November 01 @ 17:00 UTC (1pm Eastern, 10am Pacific)
by Jaroslav Reznik 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-1 for this important meeting, wherein we shall determine the readiness of the Fedora 18 Beta. Thursday, November 01, 2012 @17:00 UTC (13:00 EDT/10:00 PDT/18:00 CET) "Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release. This meeting is called the Go/No-Go Meeting." "Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of the QA Team." For more details about this meeting see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting In the meantime, keep an eye on the Fedora 18 Beta Blocker list: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/18/beta/buglist Reminder: Fedora 18 Beta readiness meeting follows the Go/No-Go meeting in two hours (19:00 UTC, 3pm Eastern, 12pm Pacific). Btw. please check time against UTC as we are during the daylight saving time change period... Jaroslav

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2012-10-29 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2012-10-29 # Time: 15:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's meeting time again tomorrow. Obviously the most important topic now is the Beta; we have the Go/No-Go this week and we need to get blockers knocked off and an RC spun up ASAP. We could discuss the LVM-by-default bug, though it may be best just to leave that to FESCo. And we have a few release criteria / test case revision topics open as usual. This is a reminder of the upcoming QA meeting. Please add any topic suggestions to the meeting wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20121029 The current proposed agenda is included below. == Proposed Agenda Topics == 1. Previous meeting follow-up 2. Fedora 18 Beta status / mini blocker review 3. Release criteria / test cases 4. Open floor -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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LVM autopart testing
by Adam Williamson 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Hey, folks. So the Big LVM Autopart Controversy has been kicked upstairs to FESCo: https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/964 If they say 'go with LVM', we'll have to do that. I have no idea what FESCo will decide, but we should cover our bets either way, I think, so it will do no harm to do some testing of the LVM autopart stuff over the weekend rather than wait till after FESCo makes up its mind. So, for those doing validation testing, if you could run a few test installs with LVM autopart and make sure everything's okay that'd be great. There's nowhere formal to report results - just yell on the list if you find a bug that doesn't affect ext4 autopart. I have a couple of updates.imgs available: http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/updates-lvm.img against 18.19 (TC6) http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/updates-lvm-1821.img against 18.21 (smoke12, possibly TC7) The first is for anaconda 18.19 - what's in TC6. The second is for anaconda 18.21 - what's in smoke12 and would possibly be in TC7. If more anaconda builds show up, I'll provide updates.img for them following the same name scheme. All you really have to do to test is use these updates.imgs and do a regular old autopart install. Two things should happen - the install shouldn't explode (unless you hit some unrelated bug, of course) and you should get LVs for your system partitions (not /boot) by default, just as you did with F17 and earlier. If you hit a problem, do test *without* the updates.img too before pulling the fire alarm, just in case it's not anything to do with the LVM change. You can also test autopart-within-custom-partitioning if you like. The button in custom part that says something like 'create partitions automatically'. It should also give you LVM-based partitioning with this patch. (It does for me, I checked). Thanks everyone! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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2012-10-24 @ 16:00 UTC - F18 Beta Blocker Bug Review #5
by Tim Flink 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

# F18 Beta Blocker Review meeting #5 # Date: 2012-10-24 # Time: 16:00 UTC [1] (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) # Location: #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net Keeping with what we've done for the last couple of weeks, we're planning to stop around the 3 hour mark if we're not done by then and resume on 2012-10-25. We'll be running through the beta blockers and nice-to-haves. The current list of blocker bugs is available at: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current We'll be reviewing the bugs to determine ... 1. Whether they meet the Beta release criteria [1] and should stay on the list 2. Whether they are getting the attention they need [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Beta_Release_Criteria For guidance on Blocker and Nice-to-have (NTH) bugs, please refer to - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_nth_bug_process For the blocker review meeting protocol, see - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting

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2012-10-22 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2012-10-22 # Time: 15:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's meeting time again tomorrow. This is going to look a bit like groundhog day - once again we're checking in on the Beta freeze status and blocker list. We also haven't got anywhere concrete on the partitioning criteria so it might be worth kicking that around some. This is a reminder of the upcoming QA meeting. Please add any topic suggestions to the meeting wiki page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20121022 The current proposed agenda is included below. == Proposed Agenda Topics == 1. Previous meeting follow-up 2. Fedora 18 Beta status / mini blocker review 3. Release criteria / test cases 4. Open floor -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 6 (TC6) Available Now!
by Andre Robatino 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

As per the Fedora 18 schedule [1], Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 6 (TC6) is now available for testing. Content information, including changes, can be found at https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5349#comment:16 . Please see the following pages for download links (including delta ISOs) and testing instructions. Normally dl.fedoraproject.org should provide the fastest download, but download-ib01.fedoraproject.org is available as a mirror (with an approximately 1 hour lag) in case of trouble. To use it, just replace "dl" with "download-ib01" in the download URL. Installation: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test Base: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test Desktop: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test Ideally, all Alpha and Beta priority test cases for Installation [2], Base [3], and Desktop [4] should pass in order to meet the Beta Release Criteria [5]. Help is available on #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net [6], or on the test list [7]. Create Fedora 18 Beta test compose (TC) and release candidate (RC) https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5349 Current Blocker and NTH bugs: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current [1] http://jreznik.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-18/f-18-quality-tasks.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Installation_validation_testing [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Base_validation_testing [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Desktop_validation_testing [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Beta_Release_Criteria [6] irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-qa [7] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

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Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 5 (TC5) Available Now!
by Andre Robatino 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

As per the Fedora 18 schedule [1], Fedora 18 Beta Test Compose 5 (TC5) is now available for testing. Content information, including changes, can be found at https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5349#comment:11 . Please see the following pages for download links (including delta ISOs) and testing instructions. Normally dl.fedoraproject.org should provide the fastest download, but download-ib01.fedoraproject.org is available as a mirror (with an approximately 1 hour lag) in case of trouble. To use it, just replace "dl" with "download-ib01" in the download URL. Installation: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test Base: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test Desktop: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test Ideally, all Alpha and Beta priority test cases for Installation [2], Base [3], and Desktop [4] should pass in order to meet the Beta Release Criteria [5]. Help is available on #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net [6], or on the test list [7]. Create Fedora 18 Beta test compose (TC) and release candidate (RC) https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5349 Current Blocker and NTH bugs: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current [1] http://jreznik.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-18/f-18-quality-tasks.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Installation_validation_testing [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Base_validation_testing [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Desktop_validation_testing [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Beta_Release_Criteria [6] irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-qa [7] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

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