On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 17:38 +1000, blind cant wrote: > Hi all, > > I am interested in helping out with testing for Fedora. I have been using > Linux on and off since the late 90s, I played around a bit with Red Hat and > Debian in the 90s but never got far though. I have been using Ubuntu on > and off since the mid 2000s, spent a couple of years using Arch Linux as my > main OS in the late 2000s, but I got sick of fixing things constantly so I > went back to Windows. I did start using Ubuntu Gnome as my main OS about 2 > years ago but I very recently (this week!) installed Fedora 24 and will use > that as my main OS. The reason I changed is because I felt I would learn > more about Linux in general by using Fedora and also I liked the security > aspects of Fedora over Ubuntu. > > I consider myself a Windows power user but still a beginner to intermediate > Linux user. I just finished the Linux Foundation Linux 101 course on edX > and I would like to continue learning more about Fedora and Linux in > general and I figured doing software testing is a good start. I have done > some software testing before through work, mainly supporting developers and > testers as an ICT Business Analyst but I have also written and executed > test cases. I do work full time in ICT doing data extraction and > manipulation with SQL and Regex. I am also doing a computer science degree > part time, which I am about a third of the way through. I haven't done > much programming yet in the degree but in about 6 months I will be doing a > lot of programming. > > Unfortunately because of my current commitments I don't have a great deal > of time but I feel I can definitely allocate 30 minutes a day 7 days a week > to Fedora software testing. My IRC nick is blindcant, but I just have to > configure Weechat before joining the IRC channel. I would eventually like > to help out the Fedora Project by writing documentation and also > contributing code, but my knowledge isn't good enough on Fedora or Linux or > programming to do that just yet, so again, I think software testing is a > great place to start. I am looking forward to working and communicating > with you all. Welcome Dallas, thanks for volunteering! Glad to have you along. Just one thing I'd suggest: one of the best ways to learn things is by doing them. If you're interested in improving your coding skills, one of the best ways to learn is to go beyond just finding bugs and filing them. When you find a bug, see if you can do anything to figure out why it's happening, and if you can, see if you can fix it. This will be hard at first, but the more you try, the easier it'll get, and there's no penalty for failing. If you try this for a bug but can't figure it out, a good thing to do is follow the bug and if it gets fixed, find the fix (you can usually follow the information in the bug report, the update, or the package changelog to find it - if not, you can ask the maintainer), and examine it and try to figure out how it fixes the bug and why the developer chose to fix it in that way. This is a pretty good way to learn about how bugs get fixed and how development works. Good luck! :) -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
