Fedora 21 Beta Go/No-Go Meeting, Thursday, October 23 @ 17:00 UTC
by Jaroslav Reznik
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-2 for this important
meeting, wherein we shall determine the readiness of the Fedora 21 Beta.
Thursday, October 23, 2014 17:00 UTC (1 PM EDT, 10 AM PDT, 19:00 CEST)
"Before each public release Development, QA and Release Engineering meet
to determine if the release criteria are met for a particular release.
This meeting is called the Go/No-Go Meeting."
"Verifying that the Release criteria are met is the responsibility of
the QA Team."
Release Candidate (RC) availability and good QA coverage are prerequisites
for the Go/No-Go decision but meeting itself is held in any case.
For more details about this meeting see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting
In the meantime, keep an eye on the Fedora 21 Beta Blocker list:
http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/21/beta/buglist
Fedora 21 Beta blocker bug status report by adamw
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-October/203591.html
We have very tight schedule this time to make Fedora 21 release this
year, please help us with blocker bugs, testing and other tasks needed
for successful release. So far, many reviews says F21 Alpha is the best
Fedora ever!
Jaroslav
9 years, 5 months
PSA: Don't install kernels with grubby 8.35-6.fc21 - they won't boot
by Adam Williamson
Hi, folks. I've just noticed that grubby 8.35-6.fc21 made it to the
updates-testing repository. That build has a rather bad bug - when it
writes grub entries it will likely leave out the 'initrd16' (or just
'initrd', depending how old your system is) line, which will probably
mean the kernel won't boot.
So, best downgrade to 8.35-4.fc21 (from the 'fedora' repo) or upgrade to
8.35-7.fc21
(https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-12932/grubby-8.35-7.fc21 , should hit updates-testing soon, you can get it from koji or with 'bodhi -D FEDORA-2014-12932' for now) before installing any kernels.
If you do wind up with a grubby 8.35-6 installed kernel which won't
boot, don't panic. You can manually add the required line by copying
from the line for an older kernel and just changing the filename
appropriately - it should come right under the 'linux' / 'linux16' line.
You can also just boot an older kernel, remove the newer kernel, upgrade
or downgrade grubby, and install the newer kernel again.
Sorry for the trouble!
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net
http://www.happyassassin.net
9 years, 5 months
Fedora 21 Beta Change Freeze
by Dennis Gilmore
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Hi all,
as the Fedora 21 schedule[1] states the Beta change freeze is upon
us. As of now all Beta freeze only accepted exceptions[2] will be
allowed in.
we are at the beta stage of release, so the Beta_to_Pre_Release[3]
stage of the updates policy applies.
Regards
Dennis
[1] http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-21/f-21-devel-tasks.html
[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Beta_to_Pre_Release
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9 years, 5 months
Taskotron Has Replaced AutoQA
by Tim Flink
This has been a long time coming, but AutoQA is no longer scheduling
jobs and Taskotron is now running all of the automated checks on
packages/updates.
The changeover should be transparent to most people - the same checks
are being run in pretty much the same situations. Until Bodhi 2.0 is
deployed, we're planning to continue providing feedback on updates in
the form of bodhi comments.
While Taskotron is a huge step forwards in terms of having a capable
and maintainable automation system for Fedora, it isn't perfect on the
UX front. That being said, there has never been much traffic to the
AutoQA instance and that's why we haven't been focusing as much on the
frontend.
This changeover is just the beginning - we're still hard at work to add
features to Taskotron. The first major feature to be added is
disposable test clients [1] which will pave the way for folks to submit
tasks to be run in Taskotron, among other oft requested features.
Huge props to the folks who have helped make this happen - the usual
suspects from Fedora QA ( Kamil Páral, Josef Skládanka, Martin
Krizek, Lukáš Brabec, Jan Sedlák, Petr Schindler, John Dulaney, Mike
Ruckman), Ralph Bean (patches to ResultsDB), Kevin Fenzi and Stephen
Smoogen (lots of help with and patience during deployment) and many,
many other folks who have contributed ideas, bug reports and/or moral
support.
If you're interested in learning more about Taskotron or helping us with
dev tasks, I've included some reference links at the end of this email.
As always, please come find us (on the qadevel@ list or in #fedora-qa)
if you have any questions or concerns.
Tim
[1] https://phab.qadevel.cloud.fedoraproject.org/T298
General Wiki Page for Taskotron:
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Taskotron
Libtaskotron Documentation:
- https://docs.qadevel.cloud.fedoraproject.org/libtaskotron/latest/
QA Devel Issue Tracking and Project Management:
- https://phab.qadevel.cloud.fedoraproject.org/
"Taskotron and Me" Talk from Flock 2014:
- http://youtu.be/jMTUFCFJS6o
Taskotron Tagged Articles on tflink's Blog:
- http://tirfa.com/tag/taskotron.html
9 years, 5 months
2014-10-13 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting?
by Adam Williamson
# Fedora Quality Assurance Meeting
# Date: 2014-10-13
# Time: 15:00 UTC
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto)
# Location: #fedora-meeting on irc.freenode.net
Greetings testers!
Today / tomorrow (Monday 13th) is a vacation day here in Canada and I
may not be able to make the meeting slot, but if anyone else wants to
run the meeting please do go ahead and do so! I'd suggest discussing F21
status ahead of Beta freeze, and the Taskotron production deployment and
next steps there - it might be interesting to come up with a plan to
monitor Taskotron output and propose stronger 'enforcement' of its tests
if they prove to be sufficiently accurate.
Thanks everyone! Remember, Beta TC3 is out and testing desired :)
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net
http://www.happyassassin.net
9 years, 5 months