FEDORA COMMUNITY USABILITY TEST: Usability Tester 8

Date/Time: Thursday 7 December 2009
Video Files:
- Part A: TBA
- Part B: TBA
FAS Account: (withheld for privacy for now)
Browser used: firefox-3.5.6-1.fc12.x86_64
Computer used: Mo's x61 laptop (Fedora 12)
Package maintainership: Used to be a heavy package maintainer. Now a manager of others who maintain packages. Listed as owning 6 and maintaining 325 packages.

Introduction / First Impressions

Have you seen this site before? If so, where did you hear about it?
- no
Have you used this site before? If so, what have you used it for? How did that go? How often have you used this site?
- no
(On front page) What are your first impressions, looking at this site now?
- a lot of motion with spinning fedora icon.
- looks like a website, mostly like a fedora site
- grey predominant, more grey than blue
(On front page) What do you think this site is?
- based on its name.... helps packagers? I don't know.
(On front page) Any other comments you'd like to make about this site?
- no
(On front page) What do you think of this page? Where would you click first?
- login

View your profile on this site. What do you think about it? Is the information accurate? Do your group memberships seem accurate? Do your package affiliations seem accurate?
- clicks 'view profile' in right sidebar
- very slow. extremely slow.
- i don't maintain 360 packages. it's wrong.
- i own 6 packages - that's accurate.
- groups seem mine. oh, i'm missing a couple i think. even if i click on the full view, they don't show up.
You've just spoken with Dennis Gilmore and he's asked you to open a ticket for him in a fedorahosted.org trac instance. In order to cc Dennis on the ticket, you'll need to figure out his FAS account name. Where would you go to look it up?
- skipped it.

Do you have any unpushed updates? Where would you go to look this up?
- clicks 'package maintenance'
- sees a list of packages
- clicks on 'pending updates' in the right sidebar
- very slow! loads, then doesn't load.
How are your builds doing? Where would you go to look this up?
- looking on the right sidebar
- clicks on 'in progress builds'
Let's say you have a friend who is a little bit behind the times - she is running Fedora 10. There's an annoying Inkscape bug that bothers her - after searching the internet for a bit you found out the bug is fixed in Inkscape version 0.47.
- Is Inkscape version 0.47 available in Fedora 10 for your friend?
  - clicks 'search' in the lower left sidebar
  - searches for 'inkscape'
  - clicks on inkscape in the search results
  - it's available in testing
- If Inkscape version 0.47 is not available for Fedora 10, can you download an SRPM here to build it for her?
  - looks at the right sidebar on the inkscape package details page(but he doesn't think he should)
  - i'm guessing it'll take me to something generic instead of that specific package
  - Finds it

You need help with yelp. Who's the package maintainer?
- goes to top search
- types 'yelp' clicks on the yelp search result
- 'mbarnes'
- bug in details page
Luke Macken is going away on vacation for a couple of weeks and he's asked you to look over his packages while he's gone. How many packages does he have, and do any of them need attention? Where would you go to look this up?
- we skipped this one because user profiles stopped loading completely

How would you file a bug against NetworkManager using this system?
- goes to the top searchbox
- searches for 'Network Manager'
- clicks to view network manager details
- sees 'bugs' in right sidebar
- it's broken, bugs page won't load
What has changed in the 'ruby' package over the last few updates? Where would you go to look this up?
- types 'ruby' in the top search bar
- scrolls down details page and sees changelog
How's the karma of your current testing updates doing? How would you check up on this in Fedora Community?
- clicks on 'package maintenance' left tab
- clicks on 'updates' top tab
- scrolls down to 'testing updates' section

How well does Fedora Community support your package maintenance workflow?
- it would very well without the bugs we hit in it
Would you use Fedora Community to help maintain your packages? Which parts?
- sure
- pushing updates to stable would be useful
- seeing build status in one place is useful
Is there any essential functionality missing from Fedora Community that would help you maintain your packages more easily?
- one missing thing - I want to update a bunch at the same time - to submit them as one update
Did you learn anything about Fedora Community's functionality through this test?
- i had only looked at the front page
- i don't trust it totally because my group memberships were listed wrong
- having builds and updates in one spot is valuable
- i didn't know i could file BZs with it
What do you think is the most useful function of Fedora Community?
- pulls everything together into one unifed portal
What are the least useful functions of Fedora Community?
- most difficult was downloading an SRPM or binary - couldn't find it