QualityAssurance
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1]. For more information on the work of the QA team and how you can get involved, see the Joining page[2].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
Test Days
Thursday 2011-03-31 was ABRT Test Day[1]. As well as checking that ABRT (Fedora's automated crash report tool) is working as expected for Fedora 15, we tested out a big new feature, the retrace server[2]. This allows you to submit crash reports to a remote server which will generate the backtrace - avoiding the need for you to download and install often large debuginfo packages in order to submit reports. Michal Nowak posted a recap[3] of the event, noting that there had been eight testers and seventeen bugs filed overall.
This Thursday, 2011-04-14, will be virtualization Test Day[4], where our awesome virtualization team, starring Justin Forbes[5], will be our guides as we test the various virtualization features of Fedora 15, including shiny SPICE support in virt-manager[6]. Virtualization is a key component of any distribution nowadays, and the virtualization team always put on a smoothly run event, so please come along and help us test!
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-03-31_ABRT_Retrace_Server
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RetraceServer
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-April/000224.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-04-14_Virtualization
- ↑ http://jforbes.livejournal.com
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SpiceInVirtManager
Fedora 15 Beta preparation
Preparation for the Fedora 15 Beta release moved into high gear over the last couple of weeks, with two more blocker review meetings[1] [2] and the TC1[3], RC1[4] and RC2[5] releases. Many testers made valuable contributions to the desktop and installation validation testing processes for each of these releases, and we were able to achieve comprehensive test coverage, and identify several blocker issues for the development team to fix. The group was able to catch SELinux issues caused by the introduction of the /run directory[6] very early and ensure the change did not land in the 'stable' Fedora 15 repository until this was resolved, and did not affect the Beta release.
- ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2011-04-01/f-15-beta-blocker.2011-04-01-17.00.html
- ↑ http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2011-04-08/f-15-beta-blocker-review.2011-04-08-17.00.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-March/000215.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-April/000220.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2011-April/000221.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/098444.html
Systemd and GNOME Shell documentation
Rahul Sundaram posted some documentation on Systemd[1] and GNOME Shell[2]. Both posts led to some lively discussion and suggested improvements.
Release criteria revisions
Adam Williamson announced his intention to push various recently discussed release criteria revisions into production[1], and later announced that he had done so[2]. In the meantime, a discussion developed on how to capture the fact that some desktops can block the release and some cannot in a clear yet future-proof way, with another proposal from Adam[3] and some well-considered reservations[4] from Jóhann Guðmundsson.
Bruno Wolff suggested criteria for image sizes[5], to ensure that images at each release point are of an appropriate size for convenient testing. Adam provided a proposed wording[6]. Dennis Gilmore pointed out that the sources DVD should probably be exempt from the criterion[7], at least until final release time.
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/098288.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/098365.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/098303.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-March/098315.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/098764.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/098811.html
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-April/098817.html
Slow login investigation
Joachim Backes reported that he was seeing slow logins in Fedora 15[1], and Panu Matilainen confirmed the issue[2]. Panu was able to pinpoint the issue as a bug in at-spi2-core[3] and help the desktop team to produce a fix. Great work!