Hi Fedora users, developers and friends! It's time to start thinking about Test Days for Fedora 19. For anyone who isn't aware, a Test Day is an event usually focused around IRC for interaction and a Wiki page for instructions and results, with the aim being to get a bunch of interested users and developers together to test a specific feature or area of the distribution. You can run a Test Day on just about anything for which it would be useful to do some fairly focused testing in 'real time' with a group of testers; it doesn't have to be code, for instance we often run Test Days for l10n/i18n topics. For more information on Test Days, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days . Anyone who wants to can host their own Test Day, or you can request that the QA group helps you out with organization, or any combination of the two. To propose a Test Day, just file a ticket in QA trac - full details are at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/Create . For instructions on hosting a Test Day, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/SOP_Test_Day_management . You can see the schedule at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_19_test_days . There are many slots open right now, with the earliest on 2013-03-28 and the latest 2013-06-20. Consider the development schedule, though, in deciding when you want to run your Test Day - for some topics you may want to avoid the time before the Alpha release or the time after the feature freeze or the Final freeze. We normally aim to schedule Test Days on Thursdays; however, if you want to run a series of related Test Days, it's often a good idea to do something like Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday of the same week (this is how we usually run the X Test Week, for instance). If all the Thursday slots fill up but more people want to run Test Days, we will open up Tuesday slots as overflows. And finally, if you really want to run a Test Day in a specific timeframe due to the development schedule, but the Thursday slot for that week is full, we can add a slot on another day. We're flexible! Just put in your ticket the date or timeframe you'd like, and we'll figure it out from there. If you don't want to run your own Test Day, but you are willing to help with another, feel free to join one or more of already accepted Test Days: 2013-03-14 KDE 4.10 2013-03-21 GNOME 3.8 2013-04-17 Power Management 2013-04-23 X Test Week (intel) 2013-04-24 X Test Week (nouveau) 2013-04-25 X Test Week (radeon) 2013-05-16 Network Manager [*] And don't be afraid, there are lot of more slots available for your own Test Day! [*] If you are planning to do another networking related Test Day, I'm willing to organize a Network Test Week, like I did for Fedora 18. Just create a regular Test Day ticket and state that you want to join Network Test Week. If you have any questions about the Test Day process, please don't hesitate to contact me or any member of the Fedora QA team on test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or in #fedora-qa on IRC. Thanks! Best Regards, Martin Holec Desktop QE, Red Hat Brno -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
