QA/Meetings/20090401

Attendees

• Will Woods (wwoods)
• Adam Williamson (adamw)
• James Laska (jlaska)
• Jóhann Guðmundsson (viking_ice)
• Jesse Keating (f13)

Previous meeting follow-up

• [jlaska+adamw] mediawiki semantic update (packaging and hosting)
  • REVIEWED - 490001 - Review Request: mediawiki-semantic - The semantic extension to mediawiki
  • UNDER REVIEW - 490171 - Review Request: mediawiki-semantic-forms - An extension to MediaWiki that adds support for web-based forms
  • User:tibbs posted some additional concerns for mediawiki-semantic-forms around licensing which I haven't followed up on yet
    • request infrastructure hosting

• [f13+wwoods] - autoqa status update

• [adamw] - schedule radeon test day
  • Schedule and happening today! - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:Radeon_2009-04-01

• [jlaska] - copy F11 beta test results wiki changes into the wiki template (several test case additions)
  • Template updated (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_Install_Results_Template) with help from wwoods and jlaska

• [wwoods] - to add some upgrade test cases to the beta results page (and template)
  • No upgrade cases added yet

• [jlaska] - add Beta known issues for previous disk contents, kickstart issues, KVM NAT networking problems (use static ip)
  • Met Friday to discuss and add issues to the release notes ... https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Beta_release_notes#Anaconda_installer_issues

• [wwoods] - document any upgrade issues in the Beta release notes
  • Bug#492516 added to release notes

• [jlaska] - setup meeting to review RC test results for Friday afternoon to include release engineering (JesseKeating) and anaconda-devel and any RC testers.
  • We met on Friday @ noon EDT in #fedora-qa and hashed out the bug list currently listed in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Beta_release_notes#Anaconda_installer_issues

F-11-Beta - who/what/when/where/why?

• Useful links:
  • F-11 Schedule - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/Schedule
  • Where to record test results - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_11_Beta_Install_Test_Results
  • Current list of open Beta blockers - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=476774&hide_resolved=1
  • Beta release notes - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Beta_release_notes

• AdamW confirmed with JesseKeating that the F11Beta bug triage efforts were effective

F11Beta blocking bugs

• Much of the last week was spent

Building the Beta Known issues

• Main issues so far include:
  1. Previous disk partition layout problems
  2. Upgrade testing issues
  3. Kickstart installs fragile

• AdamW noted that we might not be communicating the known issues effectively since a lot of Alpha testers didn't know about the rpm issue
  • Make each known issue a unique section header in the wiki
  • Should anaconda display release notes again (or pull down release notes from an html page)?
  • Perhaps a desktop menu link for release notes (see fedora-release-notes package)
  • Does firefox include the release notes link? (see fedora-release-notes package)
  • Result - QA team must internally reference the Beta release notes known issues in all IRC and email communication.

The Beta RC Process

• Jlaska asked to discuss the Beta RC build, test and release process
  • What information does JesseKeating need to release the bits to the mirrors - confirmation of the anaconda-devel beta readiness criteria
  • When do we have to get that feedback in? - Meet Friday around noon in #fedora-qa to provide test feedback

• AdamW asked if it's possible to open up RC testing to a wider audience?
  • we tried in the past, but it flooded the download site and no one could test
  • Would be good to engage people, perhaps time better spent engaging during Rawhide cycle for testing Rawhide

• Jlaska suggested we gather in #fedora-qa on Friday afternoon to discuss RC test feedback
  • JesseKeating recommended we invite the anaconda-devel team

Open discussion

Development Schedule Proposal

Wwoods introduced a new Fedora release schedule concept - lengthen the development/test cycle beyond 6 months

• • introduce a two-month beta period after the normal 6-month development cycle --> rawhide branch
  • AdamW reminded that the reason we have stable releases at all is to have 'checkpoints' for major changes like the rpm checksum issue, hence our release schedule should match the heckpoints
  • Several ideas/concerns were raised. WWoods will review current proposal and open up for feedback post-beta.
    • http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/schedule.html
    • http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/images/fedora-ideal-schedules.png

Upcoming QA events

• 2009-03-26 - Nouveau Test Day
• 2009-03-31 - BugZapper Triage Day
• 2009-04-02 - Power Management Test Day

Action items

• [f13+wwoods] - autoqa status update
• [adamw] - schedule radeon test day
• [jlaska] - copy F11 beta test results wiki changes into the wiki template (several test case additions)
• [wwoods] - to add some upgrade test cases to the beta results page (and template)
• [jlaska] - add Beta known issues for previous disk contents, kickstart issues, KVM NAT networking problems (use static ip)
• [wwoods] - document any upgrade issues in the Beta release notes
• [jlaska] - setup meeting to review RC test results for Friday afternoon to include release engineering (JesseKeating) and anaconda-devel and any RC testers.

Next QA meeting

The next meeting will be held on 2009-04-01 16:00 UTC