On Mon, 2020-03-16 at 18:52 +0100, Kamil Paral wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 3:49 PM Ben Cotton <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi QA team, > > > > As many of you may already know, Red Hat has asked all employees to work > > from home[1]. Given the current global conditions, I want to start > > understanding the impact if Red Hat offices are closed as we approach the > > Fedora 32 Final (currently targeted for 21 April). > > > > What tests require physical hardware that resides in Brno or other offices? > > > > Hi, regarding just the Brno office (i.e. skipping tests that we couldn't do > anyway), and looking at our matrices [1]: > > * Testcase_Boot_default_install (i.e. the whole "Default boot and install" > section) -- This is going to apply to everything that *requires* a bare > metal machines, like this test case. Folks often don't have spare bare > metal machines that they can fully reinstall several times per day. And > when they do, it might be something slow, or it might not be able to boot > in UEFI mode (as is my case, an old notebook which takes an hour to install > and 5 minutes to boot, BIOS only). So our performance in these cases is > likely to be severely affected. This might prevent any "test this RC in 24 > hours" efforts (that is also related to a narrow bandwidth Internet for > some of us). I have a dedicated test box that can do an install in twenty minutes or so and works fine for both BIOS and UEFI installs. So I can cover a lot of these tests if necessary. I might need a faster USB stick though... > * Testcase_install_to_firmware_RAID -- Firmware RAID is in one of our > office test machines, we probably can't evaluate this one. My test box has firmware RAID, but it's a controller the kernel doesn't support :/ This is one we need to find someone to cover. > * Testcase_Anaconda_User_Interface_Basic_Video_Driver -- This will likely > be affected by a more limited selection of bare metals we'll have access to > (often older to what is in our office, which is old already). My test box has a Radeon adapter, IIRC, and I can run this test on it. I can also boot a live image (although not really run an install) to basic mode on my laptops, which have Intel and NVIDIA. > * Testcase_dualboot_with_windows -- This will be affected by the lack of > bare metal machines. > * Testcase_dualboot_with_macOS -- Our old Mac Mini stayed in the office, so > we can't evaluate this one. OTOH, our tests decrease in value every cycle, > because our Mac is archaic and doesn't even contain the latest OS version, > so it differs very much from what is commonly available on the market these > days. In future we should probably request some budget to get a newer Mac. I can't really help with either of these easily (don't have a test box with Windows on any more), unfortunately. > * Testcase_audio_basic, Testcase_desktop_menus, Testcase_desktop_automount > -- These might be harder to check with the exact RC due to limited access > to bare metal (unless we want to reinstall our own laptops each time). This > mostly affects certain applications that often behave differently on bare > metal than in a VM, like video players, or testing hw-only stuff like USB, > webcam, suspend, etc. But since we all run F32 now (I think), our own > laptops provide us with a decent level of certainty that that stuff works > (even when we're not in that exact software configuration). > * Testcase_Printing_New_Printer (real printer) - Only few people have a > real printer at home, I think. I don't. I have one, though it's usually connected by ethernet, I can probably temporarily connect it via USB to my test box to check this. > Regarding our Beijing office, I think these will be affected as well: > * Testcase_install_to_FCoE_target > * Testcase_install_to_multipath I *think* Lili actually accesses these via Beaker, so they still may be possible. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
