On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 11:21 -0800, John Poelstra wrote: > Lalit Dhiri said the following on 02/23/2009 06:30 AM Pacific Time: > > Good afternoon all, > > > > I am interested in singing up for the BugZappers system https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers > > > > Would anyone who is a current member or otherwise be able to confirm if it is acceptable to do tests / triage using a Live USB stick or in some cases use eg VirtualBox as I do not have a spare computer I could setup? > > > > Absolutely! We are glad that you want to help with what you have. > > There has been some criticism of people not using bare metal in the > past, but for the most part it should not matter. It really depends on > the component you are testing or types of bugs you are trying to > reproduce. I'd probably stay away from investigating kernel bugs in a > virtual instance, but for most applications or utilities it should be > fine. Maybe others agree or disagree? > > Please come to our meeting tomorrow if you'd like to get more involved. > Details in a separate email. I'd add that triaging work doesn't really necessarily involve attempting to reproduce the bugs all the time, in any case. At least, that's how I interpret it, and I can't find any requirement for triagers to try and reproduce the reports they are triaging in the Fedora policies. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
