Release Criteria
Fedora on the XO is intended to behave as Fedora behaves on other hardware.
Schedule
An up-to-date schedule for Fedora 10 is available at Releases/10/Schedule. A summary of Fedora XO related test milestones is noted below.
Date | Milestone |
---|---|
Tue 2008-09-30 | Public beta |
Fri 2008-10-10 | Snapshot#1 |
Fri 2008-10-17 | Snapshot#2 |
Fri 2008-10-24 | Snapshot#3 |
Tue 2008-11-04 | Preview release |
Tue 2008-11-25 | General Availability |
HOWTO's
The following sections are intended to provide high-level instructions for common tasks encountered by a Fedora XO tester.
Find NEW Fedora XO bugs
FIXME - provide tinyurl link to NEW Fedora XO Bugs
- Search for all bugzilla bugs with the following criteria:
- status=NEW
- product=Fedora
- version=rawhide
- whiteboard=XO
Triage NEW Fedora XO Bugs
To help with triaging ...
- Start with the list of NEW Fedora XO bugs at http://tinyurl.com/52wclh
For each bug, ask yourself the following questions:
- Is the bug specific to the XO hardware or environment?
- Was the following information provided?
- Build tested (rawhide-YYYYMMDD or package versions)
- Clear steps to reproduce the problem
If the above requirements have been met, please:
- Mark the bug as blocking 461806 (FedoraOnXO)
- Change to bug state to ASSIGNED
For further reading, the bug triage process is described in more detail at BugZappers.
Test a MODIFIED Fedora XO Bug
FIXME - provide tinyurl link to MODIFIED Fedora XO Bugs
Ask the following questions:
- Are you able to confirm that the steps to reproduce no longer trigger the failure?
- Have any new bugs been introduced as a result of the fix?
- Are any release notes required?
When comfortable with the fix:
- Add a comment indicating which build or software packages were tested
- Change the bug state to CLOSED with a resolution of RAWHIDE
If the reported issue has not been addressed:
- Add a comment indicating which build or software packages were tested that still exhibit the failure
- Change the state to ASSIGNED
Documentation
Installing Fedora to your XO SD card
- Download the installation script:
# wget http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/olpc/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh
- Download a Fedora Live image from:
# wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/10-Beta/Live/i686/F10-Beta-i686-Live.iso
- Write the live image to your SD card:
# bash livecd-iso-to-disk.sh --xo-sd F10-Beta-i686-Live.iso /path/to/sd/device