Proposal to CANCEL: 2015-08-10 Fedora QA Meeting
by Adam Williamson
Hi folks! I'm proposing we cancel Monday's QA meeting. Last week was
pretty much all Alpha testing, and there's not much to do for Alpha
besides writing the Common Bugs page, and possibly updating
documentation relating to fedup (see
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1463 ). Let's plan to have a post
-Flock meeting on the 17th.
If anyone can think of something urgent to discuss, please reply to
this mail and we can get together at the usual time (15:00 UTC in
#fedora-meeting).
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Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net
http://www.happyassassin.net
8 years, 8 months
Fedora 23 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting, Thursday, August 06 @ 17:00 UTC
by Jan Kurik
Join us on irc.freenode.net in #fedora-meeting-2 for this important
meeting, wherein we shall determine the readiness of the Fedora 23 Alpha.
Thursday, August 06, 2015 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 meeting. We don't have RC yet as the list of accepted
blockers is still pretty long. If you have any bug on the list, please
help us with Alpha release. If we won't be ready by Thursday, we will
use this meeting to review blockers and decide what to do.
For more details about this meeting see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Go_No_Go_Meeting
In the meantime, keep an eye on the Fedora 23 Alpha Blocker list:
http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/23/alpha/buglist
Regards,
Jan
[FedoCal] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/2629/
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Jan Kuřík
8 years, 8 months
Fedora 23 Release Notes are Open!
by Pete Travis
Hello Fedora,
The Fedora 22 release cycle is in full swing, and beats have been opened
for the F22 Releasae Notes. Over the coming weeks, the release notes
for the next version of Fedora will be assembled by Docs team writers,
packageers, developers, and community members of all forms.
Yeah, that's a pretty broad group. You can help - not a figurative,
abstract "you", but you, reader, can personally contribute to this fine
periodical publication. Not a technical writer? That's OK! The most
difficult part is the initial prep and research, and that's where we can
use you the most. Here are some examples of ways you could contribute:
- You maintain a package, and are able to update it to the next major
version for F23. The new version has some long-awaited features added
that users would enjoy. To signal the Docs team to write a bit about
these changes, you open the release monitoring bugzilla ticket and check
the "fedora_requires_release_note" flag. We can take it from there, but
please be available for follow up questions!
- You subscribe to a mailing list (one? who is this guy?) and a
discussion reveals some notable change in a component of Fedora. While
mailing lists are discoverable, the archives aren't one's first stop, so
you forward the thread to a dedicated mailing list,
"relnotes-content(a)lists.fedoraproject.org". Like all Fedora's lists,
you must subscribe to send - but don't worry, we'll watch the approval
queue.
- As a contributor to Fedora QA, you are were one of the earliest
adopters of Fedora 23 as a daily driver. While testing packages and
generally going about your business, you find that something has
changed; the syntax or location of a config file, perhaps, or maybe the
user experience of your favorite media player. Drop a note into the
wiki at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Documentation_beats and
some writers will come along to write the prose and share it with the world.
- You're an active member of a SIG. There are some exciting changes and
additions to the packages supported by your SIG. It could be a new
skychart from Astronomy, or a new mapping client from GIS, or new
applications and features on the XFCE spin. You drop in to #fedora-docs
on Freenode to hash it out with the Docs team (there's almost always
someone there, but you might have to wait a bit for the first reply.)
I'm getting long-winded now, but there's one point I want to stress.
Note that none of these options said anything like "Write comprehensive,
gramatically correct documentation in American English that is ready for
publication." If you want to participate to that degree, great! If
not, don't be dissuaded. It's a huge help to have leads and requests
thrown into the funnel, there are writers waiting to take it the rest of
the way.
--
-- Pete Travis
- Fedora Docs Project Leader
- 'randomuser' on freenode
- immanetize(a)fedoraproject.org
8 years, 8 months
Fedora 23 Alpha Release Candidate 1 (RC1) (mostly) Available Now!
by Adam Williamson
[sorry this is late, I sent it from the wrong email address :< RC2 will
be landing in ~8 hours]
Somewhat later than scheduled [1], Fedora 23 Alpha Release Candidate 1
(RC1) is now available for testing. Please help us complete as much of
the validation testing as we can!
We already know we'll need an RC2, but so far the expected change is
minor (likely just dropping some packages from Server DVD). We
definitely need to fill out all the Alpha tests with RC1 to find any
other lurking blockers, so please help!
The Cloud base i386 image is hitting a mysterious failure during
compose. releng will work on it tomorrow, but if we can't fix it
there's a possibility it'll simply be dropped. All other significant
images should be available.
Content information, including changes, can be found at
https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/6213#comment:6 . Please see the
following pages for
download links and testing instructions. Normally dl.fedoraproject.org
should provide the fastest download, but download-
ib01.fedoraproject.org is available as a mirror (with an approximately
1 hour lag) in case of trouble. To use it, just replace "dl" with
"download-ib01" in the download URL.
Installation:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test
Base:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test
Workstation and Desktop:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test
Server:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Server_Test
Cloud:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Cloud_Test
Summary:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Summary
All Alpha priority test cases for each of these test pages
[2] must pass in order to meet the Alpha Release Criteria [3]. We are
also trying to run the Beta and Final tests at this time, to try and
identify later release blocker bugs as early as possible.
Help is available on #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net [4], or on the
test list [5].
Create Fedora 23 Alpha test compose (TC) and release candidate (RC)
https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/6213
Current Blocker and Freeze Exception bugs:
http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current
[1]
http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-23/f-23-quality-tasks.html
[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Release_validation_test_plan
[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Alpha_Release_Criteria
[4] irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-qa
[5] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net
http://www.happyassassin.net
8 years, 8 months
