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> From: "Shane Ball" <simplerthings@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 11:49:25 AM
> Subject: Self-introduction
>
> Hello and my name is Shane Ball and am known as shantorn or w7sak (amateur
> radio license). My first experience with linux was around 1997 with Red Hat
> 5.1 and have been an avid user since then. I have tested and tried most
> major flavors except Gentoo. I have been involved in the fedora*.* channels
> since about F16. I have most recently, past year, been using Arch but they
> lack the friendly community that Fedora holds and so I want to put my stake
> in the grounds and get involved and hopefully be more than a consumer.
> Souther_Gentelman and linuxmodder have helped me to learn more and in the
> past month linuxmodder has taken some time to show me some new area's in
> linux such as gpg and encrypting emails, files and folders. I hope I can
> make a difference here in Q&A
> Thank you! Shantorn
Hey Shane !
Welcome to Fedora QA . I would like to thank Souther_Gentelman and linuxmodder for helping out new contributors.
As you might know we are close to Fedora 25 release . You can start with Fedora QA by creating a FAS account! Once you are done with the basics you can start with Release Validation testing. In Release Validation all you need to do is to check the nightly/TC/RC against certain criteria. For example, let's take the latest RC (Fedora 25 RC 1.3), you can run test cases which are mentioned [1] and submit your results in the test matrix.
Note that each of the test cases[2] will have "How to test" section which will have the steps (to be executed sequentially) and if the results match with the expected results you can mark it as pass by editing the wiki page {{result|PASS|<fas_username>}} . Always make sure to check for "Associated release criterion" which can be found on the top of test case page , if your test case fails you can mark it fail by editing the wiki page {{result|FAIL|<fas_username>}} and file a bug at RHBZ [3] under Fedora.
You can always find the ‘current’ validation pages using these addresses:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Server_Test
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Cloud_Test
You can also do update-testing, update testing is where a tester tests a package and gives out a +1 Karma for PASS and -1 Karma for FAIL. You can go to bodhi.fedoraproject.org where you can sort the packages with Fedora Releases and tags viz "pending" & "testing" . You can read much about update testing here [4]. You can also, use fedora-easy-karma for giving out feedbacks.
[1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_25_RC_1.3_Summary?rd=Test_Results:Current_Summary
[2]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_USB_stick_Live_luc
[3]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/
[4]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing
You can join us in the Fedora QA meeting at today (2016-11-21) 1600UTC #fedora-meeting over freenode. Its a good place to interact with the global community and learn a lot!
Feel free to ping me onlist or on IRC if you get stuck somewhere!
Thanks
Sumantro
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