4:16 p.m.
Hi Fedora users, developers and friends!
today Fedora 19 was branched from Rawhide. That means testing season begins now and will
continue till Fedora 19 Final Release, which may be (or may not be) on 2013-06-25. Please,
fasten your seatbelts, fire up your virtual or baremetal machines and enjoy this crash
testing ride with us.
Remember: https://is0.4sqi.net/userpix/D1Y3XKHJVN4GIMRW.jpg
Before Alpha will (or won't) be ready on 2013-04-16, we have prepared some Test
Days[0] for you. Starting this Thursday with KDE 4.10 [1] with one major innovation. You
are invited to try how new KDE 4.10 [2] stuff not only using Fedora 19 Live test images,
but also from updates-testing repository on your current Fedora stable installation,
including both Fedora 18 and Fedora 17 releases. For first time, you can test new version
of whole KDE platform before it rolls up and in as an stable update for your Fedora!
[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_19_test_days
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-03-14_KDE_4.10
[2] http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.10/
Well, you may already know about and use Bodhi[3] with karma voting process. But Test Day
provides an opportunity to actually talk to developers before KDE 4.10 reaches stable
updates and interactively report, explore, debug and fix your issues (or at least find
workarounds for the time being). Together we can make this update less painful for
everyday Fedora KDE users.
[3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Join IRC #fedora-test-day on FreeNode and ask QA or developers for help, if you get into
trouble. We can try to find workarounds and help you with debugging. Please report all
bugs under appropriate component preferably at upstream bugzilla https://bugs.kde.org/
regarding common KDE 4.10 issues or Red Hat bugzilla http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ if you
have problems with Fedora distribution integration. You can also report other Fedora bugs
not related to this Test Day. Feel free to ask on IRC, if you don't know against which
component or on what bugzilla you should fill the report.
See you in Bugzilla!
Best Regards,
Martin Holec
Desktop QE, Red Hat Brno
Freenode nick: Martix
Your self-appointed Fedora 19 Test Day Wrangler.
4:31 p.m.
Hi,
I want to open discussion on how to improve marketing for Fedora Test Days and pre-release
testing in general.
Few thoughts:
* I heard about FWN revival. Can we provide some content to support Test Days or regular
announcements are enough?
* How to promote Test Days on fedoraproject.org website?
Best Regards,
Martin Holec
Desktop QE, Red Hat Brno
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Fedora releases" <test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>, devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
devel-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Cc: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:16:46 PM
Subject: [Call to Arms] Fedora 19 Test Days starts this week
Hi Fedora users, developers and friends!
today Fedora 19 was branched from Rawhide. That means testing season begins now and will
continue till Fedora 19 Final Release, which may be (or may not be) on 2013-06-25. Please,
fasten your seatbelts, fire up your virtual or baremetal machines and enjoy this crash
testing ride with us.
Remember: https://is0.4sqi.net/userpix/D1Y3XKHJVN4GIMRW.jpg
Before Alpha will (or won't) be ready on 2013-04-16, we have prepared some Test
Days[0] for you. Starting this Thursday with KDE 4.10 [1] with one major innovation. You
are invited to try how new KDE 4.10 [2] stuff not only using Fedora 19 Live test images,
but also from updates-testing repository on your current Fedora stable installation,
including both Fedora 18 and Fedora 17 releases. For first time, you can test new version
of whole KDE platform before it rolls up and in as an stable update for your Fedora!
[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_19_test_days
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-03-14_KDE_4.10
[2] http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.10/
Well, you may already know about and use Bodhi[3] with karma voting process. But Test Day
provides an opportunity to actually talk to developers before KDE 4.10 reaches stable
updates and interactively report, explore, debug and fix your issues (or at least find
workarounds for the time being). Together we can make this update less painful for
everyday Fedora KDE users.
[3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Join IRC #fedora-test-day on FreeNode and ask QA or developers for help, if you get into
trouble. We can try to find workarounds and help you with debugging. Please report all
bugs under appropriate component preferably at upstream bugzilla https://bugs.kde.org/
regarding common KDE 4.10 issues or Red Hat bugzilla http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ if you
have problems with Fedora distribution integration. You can also report other Fedora bugs
not related to this Test Day. Feel free to ask on IRC, if you don't know against which
component or on what bugzilla you should fill the report.
See you in Bugzilla!
Best Regards,
Martin Holec
Desktop QE, Red Hat Brno
Freenode nick: Martix
Your self-appointed Fedora 19 Test Day Wrangler.
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8:14 p.m.
Martin,
I am cc'ing this to the FWN and Website list as I think this is a great
opportunity to get more community testing and input in.
There is some discussion about a few more FWN releases as we get ready
to open up fedoramagazine.org. The testing requests should be fine to go
out in pretty quick order.
Cheers
Bryan
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 17:31 -0400, Martin Holec wrote:
Hi,
I want to open discussion on how to improve marketing for Fedora Test Days and
pre-release testing in general.
Few thoughts:
* I heard about FWN revival. Can we provide some content to support Test Days or regular
announcements are enough?
* How to promote Test Days on fedoraproject.org website?
Best Regards,
Martin Holec
Desktop QE, Red Hat Brno
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Holec" <mholec(a)redhat.com>
To: test-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, "For testing and quality assurance of
Fedora releases" <test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>, devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
devel-announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org, users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Cc: marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:16:46 PM
Subject: [Call to Arms] Fedora 19 Test Days starts this week
Hi Fedora users, developers and friends!
today Fedora 19 was branched from Rawhide. That means testing season begins now and will
continue till Fedora 19 Final Release, which may be (or may not be) on 2013-06-25. Please,
fasten your seatbelts, fire up your virtual or baremetal machines and enjoy this crash
testing ride with us.
Remember: https://is0.4sqi.net/userpix/D1Y3XKHJVN4GIMRW.jpg
Before Alpha will (or won't) be ready on 2013-04-16, we have prepared some Test
Days[0] for you. Starting this Thursday with KDE 4.10 [1] with one major innovation. You
are invited to try how new KDE 4.10 [2] stuff not only using Fedora 19 Live test images,
but also from updates-testing repository on your current Fedora stable installation,
including both Fedora 18 and Fedora 17 releases. For first time, you can test new version
of whole KDE platform before it rolls up and in as an stable update for your Fedora!
[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_19_test_days
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-03-14_KDE_4.10
[2] http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.10/
Well, you may already know about and use Bodhi[3] with karma voting process. But Test Day
provides an opportunity to actually talk to developers before KDE 4.10 reaches stable
updates and interactively report, explore, debug and fix your issues (or at least find
workarounds for the time being). Together we can make this update less painful for
everyday Fedora KDE users.
[3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/
Join IRC #fedora-test-day on FreeNode and ask QA or developers for help, if you get into
trouble. We can try to find workarounds and help you with debugging. Please report all
bugs under appropriate component preferably at upstream bugzilla https://bugs.kde.org/
regarding common KDE 4.10 issues or Red Hat bugzilla http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ if you
have problems with Fedora distribution integration. You can also report other Fedora bugs
not related to this Test Day. Feel free to ask on IRC, if you don't know against which
component or on what bugzilla you should fill the report.
See you in Bugzilla!
Best Regards,
Martin Holec
Desktop QE, Red Hat Brno
Freenode nick: Martix
Your self-appointed Fedora 19 Test Day Wrangler.
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4:49 a.m.
Le mercredi 20 mars 2013 à 19:14:17 (-0600), Bryan Sutherland a écrit :
Martin,
I am cc'ing this to the FWN and Website list as I think this is a great
opportunity to get more community testing and input in.
There is some discussion about a few more FWN releases as we get ready
to open up fedoramagazine.org. The testing requests should be fine to go
out in pretty quick order.
[snip]
Hi,
Actually we have all announces from the announce mailing list spread
through start.fedoraproject.org.
I agree, many users don't use this as a start page, or don't refresh this
frequently.
On an other side, the target visitors of the fedoraproject.org website is
more the incomers, they don't really know Fedora. If they do, they know
the exact page that they are looking for (get-prerelease or get.fpo for
example).
We have actually a "news bar" that is used only to highlight new Fedora
Releases. See [1] for an example. We could think of using it to highlight
Fedora test days. But should we display it just on D-day or also advertise
it a day before? What to do if we have 3 test days in 2 days? :)
I can see two targeted users for test days:
- Contributors involved in the actual test day or willing to help that
specific test: They need to know when it is, but already know what is a
test day. Using the new fedmsg is probably best. And if they use GNOME,
the gnome-shell pluging is nice.
- Simple users that we need to get involved but we can't only use one
medium to reach them.
Or we can simply link the stream from Fedora Magazine on our websites…
[1] http://paste.opensuse.org/8f05f019
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