Will Woods wrote:
Hello, Fedora Board!
For the past month, I have been talking to Red Hat employees and Fedora
developers and enthusiasts about the idea of a Fedora testing project.
The mission of this project would be to use and develop Open Source test
software, test tools, and test processes to improve the overall quality
of Fedora and other Open Source software. In short, this would be like a
Red Hat-backed QA department for Fedora that produces things the whole
world can use.
Red Hat has committed to donating code and employee time to this
project. They will be making code and documentation available through
https://testing.108.redhat.com/ and employing me to lead it.
To this end, I'm writing today to formally request that you consider
making this effort an official Fedora project. A project page can be
found on the Fedora Project wiki which gives more detail about proposed
subprojects, goals, and so on:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraTesting
Thank you for taking the time to consider this. If there's any further
information needed, don't hesitate to contact me.
I would let the test suite run on a full development cycle, get the
community involved and show the results before accepting it as a Fedora
Project. This is one of the reasons if the test suite can connect to
other machines outside of Red Hat and provide the results. Variation in
hardware while testing is good and there might be hardware specific
issues which Red Hat lab wouldnt be test all by itself. Looks like we
can't do that yet. Another thing is the ability for interested testers
to download the test suite and run the tests locally and provide the
results back which is indeed possible now as I learned from our previous
discussion.
There a few more related things to look into. BugZappers (bug triaging)
needs a active team behind it. While there are few interested people, it
is not currently well organized. There are nice improvements to Red Hat
bugzilla that could help. Ex:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/core-bugs-today.cgi. Also we need to
make sure that bugbuddy works well as a desktop client with Red Hat
bugzilla.
Look into cooperating with this team -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-June/msg00014.html.
The above testing page mentions a inclusion of a FAQ. I am sure we could
ship - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ. I even suggested this a while
back in
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2006-January/msg00135.html.
Also when this discussion is finalised send the above testing suite
roadmap to the fedora-announce list. Thanks.
Rahul
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