test-announce August 2015

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i18n Test Day tomorrow (2015-09-01)!
by Adam Williamson 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

It's time for another Test Day tomorrow (2015-09-01)! Continuing the "all those places in the world that aren't America" theme with [i18n][1], it's the [i18n Test Day][2]! Here we'll be testing things like complex language input, rendering of non-Latin text, and DNF langpack installation. If you have some time to stop by and help out, please do - we always want to make sure everyone using Fedora gets the best possible experience regardless of the language they speak! As always for Test Days, the live action is in #fedora-test-day on Freenode IRC. If you don’t know how to use IRC, you can [read these instructions][3], or just use [WebIRC][4]. [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N [2]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2015-09-01_i18n [3]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_IRC [4]: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fedora-test-day -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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Proposal to CANCEL: 2015-08-31 Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Hi folks! Sorry for the late notice, but I'm proposing we cancel Monday's QA meeting. I don't think there's anything major that needs discussing - we all know where we are on Beta testing, I guess. If anyone can think of something urgent to discuss, please reply to this mail and we can get together at the usual time (15:00 UTC in #fedora-meeting). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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2015-08-31 @ 1600 UTC ** Fedora 23 Blocker Review
by Mike Ruckman 29 Aug '15

29 Aug '15

# F23 Blocker Review meeting # Date: 2015-08-31 # Time: 1600 UTC # Location: #fedora-blocker-review on irc.freenode.net It's that time of week again - Blocker Review! This time around we have 1/3 proposed blockers for Beta/Final. We'll meet up at our regular time after the QA meeting to go through them. It'll likely be a short meeting. If you have time tomorrow, to take a look at the proposed or accepted blockers before the meeting - the full list can be found here: https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/ Make sure to click through the milestones to see how many we have before the meeting! We'll be evaluating these bugs to see if they violate any of the Release Criteria and warrant the blocking of a release if they're not fixed. Information on the release criteria for F23 can be found on the wiki [0]. For more information about the Blocker and Freeze exception process, check out these links: - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process And for those of you who are curious how a Blocker Review Meeting works - or how it's supposed to go and you want to run one - check out the SOP on the wiki: - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting Have a good weekend and see you Monday! [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Criteria -- // Mike -- Fedora QA freenode: roshi http://roshi.fedorapeople.org

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Fedora 23 Beta Test Compose 1 (TC1) Available Now!
by Adam Williamson 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

As scheduled [1], Fedora 23 Beta Test Compose 1 (TC1) is now available for testing. Please help us complete as much of the validation testing as we can! Looking at check-compose and openQA results there's nothing really obvious missing from the compose and all tests are passing, so it looks like a pretty 'testable' compose. Content information, including changes, can be found at https://fedorah osted.org/rel-eng/ticket/6237 . Please see the following pages for download links 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 Workstation and Desktop: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test Server: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Server_Test Cloud: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Cloud_Test Summary: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Summary All Alpha and Beta priority test cases for each of these test pages [2] must pass in order to meet the Alpha Release Criteria [3]. We are also trying to run the Final tests at this time, to try and identify later release blocker bugs as early as possible. Help is available on #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net [4], or on the test list [5]. Create Fedora 23 Beta test compose (TC) and release candidate (RC) https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/6237 Current Blocker and Freeze Exception bugs: http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current [1] http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-23/f-23-quality-tasks.htm l [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Release_validation_test_plan [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Beta_Release_Criteria [4] irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-qa [5] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net

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2015-08-24 @ 1600 UTC ** F23 Blocker Review Meeting
by Mike Ruckman 21 Aug '15

21 Aug '15

# F23 Blocker Review meeting # Date: 2015-08-24 # Time: 1600 UTC # Location: #fedora-blocker-review on irc.freenode.net This week we had an out of band blocker review where we plowed through a bunch of proposals. Next week we'll be having another meeting (at the usual day and time) to finish the rest off. We currently have 1/1 proposals for Beta/Final - so it should be a shorter meeting. If you have time this weekend, to take a look at the proposed or accepted blockers before the meeting - the full list can be found here: https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/ Make sure to click through the milestones to see how many we have before the meeting! We'll be evaluating these bugs to see if they violate any of the Release Criteria and warrant the blocking of a release if they're not fixed. Information on the release criteria for F23 can be found on the wiki [0]. For more information about the Blocker and Freeze exception process, check out these links: - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process And for those of you who are curious how a Blocker Review Meeting works - or how it's supposed to go and you want to run one - check out the SOP on the wiki: - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_Blocker_Bug_Meeting Have a good weekend and see you Monday! [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Criteria -- // Mike -- Fedora QA freenode: roshi http://roshi.fedorapeople.org

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Taskotron Notifications and Bodhi2
by Tim Flink 20 Aug '15

20 Aug '15

With the upgrade to bodhi2, the method we were using to notify packagers of check failures (bodhi comments) is not working at the moment due to some of the api changes which came with the upgrade. We're working to restore the comments and eventually transition over to fedmsg emission but in the mean time, packagers will not receive notifications if a package they're involved with fails a taskotron check. You will still be able to see the results of the checks by looking at the bodhi2 page for the update - taskotron checks status is shown there. We apologize for the inconvenience - we're working to fix the situation as quickly as we can. Tim

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Bodhi2 migration: 2015-08-19 16:00 UTC
by Matthew Miller 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

This message went to the devel list, but I think it kind of buries the lede: After this outage is complete, the long-mythical but never forgotten Bodhi 2 will be realized! (If you're just tuning in, Bodhi is the system we use to push out updates, including the "karma" system for update testing.) Check out https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bodhi/2.0 for some of the capabilities we can expect from this new system. Hopefully, this rollout will be trouble-free, although as I understand it, Top People are Standing By for Response in the Event of Trouble. If you find an immediate, urgent issue, report on #fedora-admin on IRC. For other bugs, please report in the upstream project at: <https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/issue>. ----- Forwarded message from Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> ----- > Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:39:59 -0600 > From: Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> > To: devel-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > Subject: Planned Outage: bodhi2 migration - 2015-08-19 16:00 UTC > Organization: Scrye, INC > X-Bogo25: H 0 > > Planned Outage: bodhi2 migration - 2015-08-19 16:00 UTC > > There will be an outage starting at 2015-08-19 16:00 UTC, which will > last approximately 6 hours. > > To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto > or run: > > date -d '2015-08-19 16:00 UTC' > > Reason for outage: > > We will be migrating our updates application (Bodhi) from version 1 to > version 2. During this time package maintainers may be unable to submit > new updates or check on existing ones as the database is migrated. > After the outage we will ask maintainers and testers to help us work > through any issues found. Please file tickets on the bodhi project in > fedorahosted trac. > > Affected Services: > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates > > Services not listed are not affected by this outage. > > Contact Information: > > Ticket Link: > > https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/4861 > > Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add > comments to the ticket for this outage above. > _______________________________________________ > devel-announce mailing list > devel-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader

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Rescheduling this weeks Blocker review meeting
by Mike Ruckman 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

Hey all, It seems the lack of sleep from Flock caught up with me Sunday night and I didn't wake up in time to run the blocker review scheduled for Monday morning. We currently have 6/7 proposed blockers for Beta and Final, so I think it will still be good to have a Blocker review this week. Does this Thursday (2015-08-20) at 16:00 UTC work for people? If there's a better time, please respond to the test list and we can find a better window to run the review. Thanks! Mike Ruckman

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2015-08-17 @ 15:00 UTC - (Possibly) Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson 17 Aug '15

17 Aug '15

# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting(?) # Date: 2015-08-17 # Time: 15:00 UTC (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto) # Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net Greetings testers! It's QA meeting time again! Well, technically it is: I just got back from Flock and I'm pretty tired so there's a chance I might not make it up in time. The same might apply to several others who were there, and some RHers are on post-Flock vacation. But if a few of us make it, we can meet! Of course, anyone who feels like it can host the meeting - it's easy to do and you don't need any special permission :) If any Flock-ers make it we can talk about what came out of Flock, and we can also check in on this week's Test Days - CCing the relevant folks for those. We may need to come up with a plan to deal with the testdays webapp possibly being offline (tflink should have some info about that, if he makes it). == Proposed Agenda Topics == 1. Previous meeting follow-up 2. Flock outcomes 3. l10n and NetworkManager test days 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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Announcing the release of Fedora 23 Alpha!
by Dennis Gilmore 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

Fedora 23 Alpha Release Announcement ==================================== The Fedora 23 Alpha is here, right on schedule for our planned October final release. Download the prerelease from our Get Fedora site: * Get Fedora 23 Alpha Workstation: <https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/prerelease/> * Get Fedora 23 Alpha Server: <https://getfedora.org/en/server/prerelease/> * Get Fedora 23 Alpha Cloud: <https://getfedora.org/en/cloud/prerelease/> * Get Fedora 23 Alpha Spins: <https://spins.fedoraproject.org/prerelease> What is the Alpha release? -------------------------- The Alpha release contains all the exciting features of Fedora 23's editions 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 23 is expected in October. We need your help to make Fedora 23 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 rock-solid. 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. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/Schedule * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report Fedora-Wide Changes ------------------- Fedora 23 includes a number of changes that will improve all of the editions. For example, Fedora 23 is making use of compiler flags to help improve security by "hardening" the binaries against memory corruption vulnerabilities, buffer overflows, and so on. This is a "behind the scenes" change that most users won't notice through normal use of a Fedora edition, but should help provide additional system security. Likewise, Fedora 23 has disabled SSL3 and RC4 by default due to known vulnerabilities in the protocols. This means all applications that use GNUTLS and OpenSSL libraries have had the SSL3 protocol and RC4 cipher disabled. Fedora 23 Alpha also includes support for Unicode 8.0, which includes new emojis, and improvements in sorting Unicode text and processing non-ASCII URLs. Other Notable Changes in the Alpha ---------------------------------- While there's a lot going on under the hood, desktop users are also going to find Fedora 23 Alpha pretty exciting for all the obvious goodness coming to the desktop. The easiest way to experience the preview of these technologies is to download and try the Fedora 23 Alpha Workstation edition. Naturally, GNOME is getting an upgrade, with Fedora 23 containing a preview of the upcoming GNOME 3.18 release, which is easier to use than ever. There are also many enhancements on the way, such as improvements to Wayland toward making it the default graphical server in a future release; support for ambient backlight drivers for a more responsive display on laptops; and changes to the Software application so it can update system firmware, and be smarter about metered Internet connections. Users that are trying to get a little work done on Fedora will be happy to see LibreOffice 5 in Fedora 23, which includes a lot of new features and improvements: style previews in the sidebar, Word-compatible text highlighting, built-in image crop, UI for data bars in Calc, support for Time-Stamp Protocol in PDF export, support for Adobe Swatch Exchange color palettes, import of Apple Pages files, improved support for HiDPI screens, and significantly improved support for MS Office formats. Spins ----- Fedora "spins" are desktops or package sets for Fedora that provide a different experience than the standard Fedora Workstation edition. For instance, the Fedora KDE and Fedora Xfce spins provide popular alternatives to GNOME for Fedora users who enjoy the KDE or Xfce experience. There's a new spin in town for Fedora 23. Want a classic take on a modern desktop? If so, the Cinnamon spin may just be what you're hoping to find. Fedora 23 includes a spin that tries to emulate the GNOME 2 experience using GNOME 3 shell. Issues and Details ------------------ This is an Alpha release. As such, we expect that you may encounter bugs or missing features. To report issues encountered during testing, contact the Fedora QA team via the mailing list or in #fedora-qa on freenode. As testing progresses, common issues are tracked on the Common F23 Bugs page. For tips on reporting a bug effectively, read "how to file a bug report." * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F23_bugs * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report Release Schedule ---------------- The full release schedule is available on the Fedora wiki. The current schedule calls for a beta release towards the end of September, and the final release scheduled towards the end of October. These dates are subject to change, pending any major bugs or issues found during the development process. * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/23/Schedule

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