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2013-09-30 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson 29 Sep '13

29 Sep '13

# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2013-09-30 # Time: 15:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's meeting time again on Monday! We have a few follow-up items from last week, and we'll be looking ahead to Beta TC1 release which is scheduled for tomorrow. Please add any agenda items I missed! 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/20130930 The current proposed agenda is included below. == Proposed Agenda Topics == 1. Previous meeting follow-up 2. Fedora 20 Beta TC1 planning 3. Open floor -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin DOT net http://www.happyassassin.net

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2013-09-25 @ 16:00 UTC - F20 Beta Blocker Bug Review #1
by Tim Flink 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

# F20 Beta Blocker Review meeting #1 # Date: 2013-09-25 # Time: 16:00 UTC (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) # Location: #fedora-blocker-review on irc.freenode.net Now that F20 alpha has been released, it's time to start looking at beta and the already decent sized list of proposed beta blockers and freeze exceptions. We'll be running through the final blockers and freeze exception bugs. The current list 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_20_Beta_Release_Criteria For guidance on Blocker and FreezeException bugs, please refer to - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process For the blocker review meeting protocol, see -https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting

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Announcing the release of Fedora 20 Alpha!
by Kevin Fenzi 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

The Fedora 20 "Heisenbug" alpha release has arrived with a preview of the latest fantastic, free, and open source technology currently under development. Take a peek inside: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease *** What is the Alpha Release? *** The Alpha release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 20 in a form that anyone can help test. This testing, guided by the Fedora QA team, helps us target and identify bugs. When these bugs are fixed, we make a Beta release available. A Beta release is code-complete and bears a very strong resemblance to the third and final release. The final release of Fedora 20 is expected in early December. We need your help to make Fedora 20 the best release yet, so please take some time to download and try out the Alpha and make sure the things that are important to you are working. If you find a bug, please report it – every bug you uncover is a chance to improve the experience for millions of Fedora users worldwide. Together, we can make Fedora a rock-solid distribution. We have a culture of coordinating new features and pushing fixes upstream as much as feasible and your feedback will help improve not only Fedora but Linux and free software on the whole. (See the end of this announcement for more information on how to help.) *** Changes *** Fedora prides itself on bringing cutting-edge technologies to users of open source software around the world, and this release continues that tradition. No matter what you do, Fedora 20 has the tools you need to help you get things done. To see how Fedora 20 is evolving from Fedora 19, see the accepted changes here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/ChangeSet == 10 Years of Fedora == The Fedora 20 release coincides nicely with the 10th anniversary of Fedora. The first Fedora release (then called Fedora Core 1) came out on November 6, 2003. Since then, the Fedora Project has become an active and vibrant community that produces nearly a dozen "spins" that are tailor made for desktop users, hardware design, gaming, musicians, artists, and early classroom environments. == ARM as a Primary Architecture == While Fedora has supported a number of hardware architectures over the years, x86/x86_64 has been the default for the majority of Fedora users and for the Linux community in general. ARM, however, has been making massive strides. It already dominates the mobile market, and is becoming a go-to platform for hobbyists and makers, and is showing enormous promise for the server market as well. In keeping with Fedora's commitment to innovation, the Fedora community has been pushing to make ARM a primary architecture to satisfy the needs of users and developers targeting the ARM platform. *** Maturity and Advanced Features *** Sometimes it's not the big new features that make a users' experience better, it's the little enhancements or long-awaited tricky features that really help make a new release the bee's knees. === NetworkManager Improvements === NetworkManager is getting several improvements in Fedora 20 that will be welcome additions for power users and system administrators. Users will now be able to add, edit, delete, activate, and de-activate network connections via the nmcli command line tool, which will make life much easier for non-desktop uses of Fedora. NetworkManager is also getting support for bonding interfaces and bridging interfaces. Bonding and bridging are used in many enterprise setups and are necessary for virtualization and fail-over scenarios. === No Default Sendmail, Syslog === Fedora 20 removes some services that many users find unnecessary, though (of course) they will remain available as installable packages for users who might need them. The systemd journal now takes the place as the default logging solution, having been tested and able to manage persistent logging in place of syslog. Also, Sendmail will no longer be installed by default, as most Fedora installs have no need of a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA). == Cloud and Virtualization Improvements == The Fedora 20 release continues the Fedora tradition of adopting and integrating leading edge technologies used in cloud computing. This release includes a number of features that will make working with virtualization and cloud computing much easier. * OS Installer Support for LVM Thin Provisioning: LVM has introduced thin provisioning technology, which provides greatly improved snapshot functionality in addition to thin provisioning capability. This change will make it possible to configure thin provisioning during OS installation. * VM Snapshot UI with virt-manager: This change will make taking VM snapshots much easier. qemu and libvirt have all the major pieces in place for performing safe VM snapshots/checkpoints, however there isn't any simple discoverable UI. This feature will track adding that UI to virt-manager, and any other virt stack bits that need to be fixed/improved. This includes adding functionality to libvirt to support deleting and rebasing to external snapshots. * Role based access control with libvirt: Libvirt role based access control will allow fine grained access control like 'user FOO can only start/stop/pause vm BAR', but for all libvirt APIs and objects. * ARM on x86 with libvirt/virt-manager: This change will fix running ARM VMs on x86 hosts using standard libvirt tools libvirt virsh, virt-manager and virt-install. == Developer Goodness == As always, Fedora 20 will include several new features and updated packages that will be of interest to all manner of developers. * Ruby on Rails 4.0: This update will keep Fedora up-to-date and will ensure that the current Ruby on Rails developers stay with us as they will get support for system-packaged Ruby on Rails of the latest version. Apart from that, Rails 4.0 also bring improved functionality, speed. security and better modularization. * Perl 5.18: Perl 5.18 will be shipped in Fedora 20. Perl doesn't get as much attention these days, but it's still a vital part of many production and development environments. Fedora will deliver the most up-to-date Perl release so its users will be able to stay current with the latest Perl. *** Desktop Environments and Spins *** = GNOME 3.10 = Fedora 20 Alpha will have a preview of GNOME 3.10, GNOME 3.9.90. GNOME 3.10 will have a number of new applications and new features that will please GNOME-lovers in the Fedora 20 release. This release includes a new music application (gnome-music), a new maps application (gnome-maps), a revamp for the system status menu, and Zimbra support in Evolution. There is also preliminary support in this release for running GNOME-shell as a Wayland compositor, though Wayland may not be in the default packages for the final Fedora 20 release. = KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11 = The Fedora KDE SIG has rebased to KDE 4.11 for Fedora 20. This release includes faster Nepomuk indexing, improvements to Kontact, KScreen integration in KWin, Metalink/HTTP support for KGet, and much more. = Spins = Spins are alternate versions of Fedora. In addition to various desktop environments for Fedora, spins are also available as tailored environments for various types of users via hand-picked application sets or customizations. To see all of the Official Fedora 20 Release Spins, visit the Fedora 20 Release Spins page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/20/Spins Nightly composes of alternate Spins are available here: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes *** Note on Performance *** Fedora development releases use a kernel with extra debug information to help us understand and resolve issues faster; however, this can have a significant impact on performance. Refer to the kernel debug strategy page for more details: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelDebugStrategy You can boot with slub_debug=- or use the kernel from nodebug repository to disable the extra debug info. *** Issues and Details *** Heisenbug Alpha is a testing release. To report issues encountered during testing, contact the Fedora QA team via the test mailing list or in #fedora-qa on freenode. As testing progresses, common issues are tracked on the Fedora wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F20_bugs For tips on reporting a bug effectively, read "How to File a Bug Report:" http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report . You can join the Fedora QA team mailing list here: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test ** Contributing *** There are many ways to contribute beyond bug reporting. You can help translate software and content, test and give feedback on software updates, write and edit documentation, design and do artwork, help with all sorts of promotional activities, and package free software for use by millions of Fedora users worldwide. To get started, visit http://join.fedoraproject.org today!

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2013-09-23 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson 23 Sep '13

23 Sep '13

# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2013-09-23 # Time: 15:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's meeting time again on Monday! Alpha is now done and ready to go, but we may have a few more things to do to prepare for it, and it's time to look ahead to Beta as well. 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/20130923 The current proposed agenda is included below. == Proposed Agenda Topics == 1. Previous meeting follow-up 2. Fedora 20 Alpha final work and retrospective 3. Fedora 20 Beta planning 4. Open floor -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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Fedora 20 Alpha status is Go, release on September 24, 2013
by Jaroslav Reznik 19 Sep '13

19 Sep '13

At the Fedora 20 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting #2 that just occurred, it was agreed to Go with the Fedora 20 Alpha by Fedora QA, Release Engineering and Development. Fedora 20 Alpha will be publicly available on Tuesday, September 24, 2013. Meeting details can be seen here: Minutes: http://bit.ly/16chiAC Log: http://bit.ly/16iEjuO Thanks everyone! Jaroslav

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Fedora 20 Alpha Release Candidate 4 (RC4) Available Now!
by Andre Robatino 18 Sep '13

18 Sep '13

NOTE: The 32- and 64-bit DVDs, the 64-bit Desktop Live, the 32-bit Security Spin, and the 64-bit LXDE and MATE Spins are over their respective size targets. As per the Fedora 20 schedule [1], Fedora 20 Alpha Release Candidate 4 (RC4) is now available for testing. Content information, including changes, can be found at https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5745#comment:30 . 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 priority test cases for Installation [2], Base [3], and Desktop [4] should pass in order to meet the Alpha Release Criteria [5]. Help is available on #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net [6], or on the test list [7]. Create Fedora 20 Alpha test compose (TC) and release candidate (RC) https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5745 Current Blocker and Freeze Exception bugs: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current [1] http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-20/f-20-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_20_Alpha_Release_Criteria [6] irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-qa [7] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

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2013-09-18 @ 16:00 UTC - F20 Alpha Blocker Bug Review #6
by Tim Flink 17 Sep '13

17 Sep '13

# F20 Alpha Blocker Review meeting #6 # Date: 2013-09-18 # Time: 16:00 UTC (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) # Location: #fedora-blocker-review on irc.freenode.net Go/No-Go #2 will be on this Thursday, so it's time for what will hopefully be the last last blocker review meeting for F20 alpha. We'll be running through the final blockers and freeze exception bugs. The current list is available at: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current We'll be reviewing the bugs to determine ... 1. Whether they meet the alpha release criteria [1] and should stay on the list 2. Whether they are getting the attention they need [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Alpha_Release_Criteria For guidance on Blocker and FreezeException bugs, please refer to - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process For the blocker review meeting protocol, see -https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting

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Fedora 20 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting #2, Thursday, September 19 @ 17:00 UTC
by Jaroslav Reznik 17 Sep '13

17 Sep '13

Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-2 for this important meeting, wherein we shall determine the readiness of the Fedora 20 Alpha. This is the second attempt to release Fedora 20 Alpha. Thursday, September 19, 2013 17:00 UTC (1 PM EDT, 10 AM PDT, 19:00 CEST) "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 20 Alpha Blocker list: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/20/alpha/buglist Jaroslav

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Fedora 20 Alpha Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Available Now!
by Andre Robatino 16 Sep '13

16 Sep '13

NOTE: The 32- and 64-bit DVDs, the 64-bit Desktop Live, the 32-bit Security Spin, and the 64-bit LXDE and MATE Spins are over their respective size targets. As per the Fedora 20 schedule [1], Fedora 20 Alpha Release Candidate 3 (RC3) is now available for testing. Content information, including changes, can be found at https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5745#comment:28 . 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 priority test cases for Installation [2], Base [3], and Desktop [4] should pass in order to meet the Alpha Release Criteria [5]. Help is available on #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net [6], or on the test list [7]. Create Fedora 20 Alpha test compose (TC) and release candidate (RC) https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5745 Current Blocker and Freeze Exception bugs: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current [1] http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-20/f-20-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_20_Alpha_Release_Criteria [6] irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-qa [7] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

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2013-09-16 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting
by Tim Flink 15 Sep '13

15 Sep '13

# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting # Date: 2013-09-16 # Time: 15:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's meeting time again on Monday! We did end up slipping release, so we're still in freeze and have plenty of testing to do. 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/20130916 The current proposed agenda is included below. == Proposed Agenda Topics == 1. Previous Meeting Followup 2. Fedora 20 Planning/Status 3. Open floor

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