Fedora 12 QA Retrospective

Introduction

This page is intended to gather feedback from the Fedora QA community on things that worked well and things that could have been better with the testing of Fedora 12. The feedback will be used as a basis for identifying areas for improvement for Fedora 13 testing. Any thoughts, big or small, are valuable. If someone already provided feedback similar to what you'd like to add, don't worry ... add your thoughts regardless.

For any questions or concerns, send mail to fedora-test-list@redhat.com.

Providing feedback

Adding feedback is fairly straight forward. If you already have a Fedora account ...

1. Login to the wiki
2. Select [Edit] for the appropriate section below.
3. Add your feedback using the format:

   * ~~~ - I like ____ about the new ____ process

4. When done, Submit your changes

Otherwise, if you do not have a Fedora account, follow the instructions below ...

1. Select the appropriate page for your feedback...
   • Something that worked well
   • Something that didn't work well
   • Anything on your QA wishlist
2. Add your feedback using the format:

   * ~~~ - I like ____ about the new ____ process

3. When done, Submit your changes

Feedback

Things that went well

• jlaska - Having QA/SOP_Test_Day_management was invaluable and resulted in a consistent look'n'feel for Fedora 12 test days
• jlaska - The creation of the test-announce@lists.fedorahosted.org mailing list made it much easier to announce test events. With a single mailing list for announcements, it's harder to miss any events.
• jlaska - Consistent announcement of ISO test events from Liam was great to ensure a consistent testing experience (see User:Liam/Draft_Install_Test_SOP).
• jlaska - We had more ISO install test runs, and they were earlier in each milestone
• jlaska - F-12 ISO Install testing solicited more testing from outside the core install test group. 27 different people contributed test feedback on the wiki test matrix during F-12. . 19 different people contributed test feedback on the wiki test matrix during F-11.
• jlaska - Automated test cases provided for the Power Management test day == awesome!
• Viking-Ice - Nightly-composes of rawhide test images.

Could have been better

• anonymous

uname -a hera.localdomain 2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jan 18 19:52:07 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux language brazilian portuguese

this works for me ls -l *.rpm

look at "./" preceding the char "*" this works for me ls -l ./*.pps

but

this does not works for me

ls -l *.pps ls: invalid option -- 'P' Experimente "ls --help" para mais informações.

I think this is a bug

• jlaska - it may be, but I believe you might want to confirm what the asterix is expanding to in the directory you are running the command ls -l *.pps. It's possible it is expanding to a filename that has -P as the first 2 characters, which confuses the ls command. What does echo *.pps yield? You may wish to enclose the command in quotes, ls -l "*.pps". If problems remain, please raise the issue on the users or test list.
• jlaska - The blocker bug meetings during the Final milestone were too long.

Wishlist

• 66.187.233.202 - I would like a pony
• jlaska - I also want a pony

Recommendations

After enough feedback has been collected, the QA team will discuss and make recommendations on changes for Fedora 13. This section will be filled in at that time.

References

• See Fedora_11_Retrospective_Notes