| Fedora Test Week | |
|---|---|
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| GNOME 44 Apps | |
| Date | 2023-03-09 to 2023-03-10 |
| Time | all day |
| Website | QA/Test Days |
| Matrix | Workstation Matrix |
| Mailing list | test |
If the test days have not happened yet, or have already finished, your testing is still valuable! The information on this page can still be used to test, and you can still file bugs and add results to the results section.
What to test?
This Fedora Test Week will focus on GNOME 44 Apps
Who's available?
The following cast of characters will be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
- Development - Kalev Lember (kalev), Allan Day (aday)
- Quality Assurance - Adam Williamson (adamw), Sumantro Mukherjee (sumantrom), Kamil Páral (kparal), coremodule (coremodule)
Prerequisites for Test Day
- Fedora 38 Workstation nightly ISO image with GNOME 44 installed on either bare metal or in a virtual machine. (Make sure you have no important data on that installation. Things might go wrong -- don't do this on your production machine!)
- If you already have Fedora 38 Workstation installed, there's no need to reinstall, but just make sure you have the latest updates installed.
- Enough free disk space
Files Nightly Builds
The Files nightly flatpak can be a useful way to test, since this allows running the new version of the file manager on an existing Fedora 37 installation. To install it, run the following in the terminal:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists gnome-nightly https://nightly.gnome.org/gnome-nightly.flatpakrepo
flatpak install org.gnome.NautilusDevel
Known bugs with this Flatpak compared with the packaged version:
- In the open with dialog, the full list of apps isn't available
These issues can be safely ignored when testing.
How to test?
Run the tests
Visit the result page and click on the column title links to see the tests that need to be run: most column titles are links to a specific test case. Follow the instructions there, then enter your results by clicking the Enter result button for the test.
Test the new features
Fedora 38 and GNOME 44 include a number of new features that would benefit from testing. These include:
Do exploratory testing
Use the latest Fedora 38 Workstation that includes GNOME 44.beta and see if you can find anything that's crashing or not working correctly. In that case, file a bug!
Reporting bugs
We have two separate places to file bugs. First, downstream in Fedora bug tracker. This is mostly useful for issues with packaging and for issues that need tracking downstream (blocker bugs for F38): Red Hat Bugzilla.
Second, there's upstream GNOME Gitlab that's useful for issues that are likely not Fedora-specific. If you file an issue downstream that looks like it needs a code fix, please file it upstream as well, to make sure all relevant people get notified of the issue.
If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on Workstation Matrix and we will help you.
Test Results
Test results will be transferred after the test day is over