Hi, everyone. I'm sending this email to more widely announce something we've been working on for a while. I've spoken to leaders of the XFCE, KDE and LXDE teams about this. We'd like to propose expanding the desktop validation testing that was initiated in the Fedora 13 cycle. During F13, these tests were used to check for blocker bugs only for the GNOME desktop. We did run the tests against some of the other desktops at some checkpoints, but failures from those runs weren't considered as blocking the release. For the Fedora 14 cycle, I'd like to try to run the desktop validation test set - that's the testing documented at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Desktop_validation_testing - on all four major desktops at each checkpoint, and consider failures at the relevant level to be release blocking bugs. We've made some adjustments to the test suite already to reflect the input from each SIG, and we may yet work on refining the procedure a little more, but the outline of the plan is simple enough. This would be technically on an experimental basis, as the GNOME testing was during the F13 cycle; if it seems to be causing too much trouble and making it impractical to work to our release plans, we might reconsider the idea during the cycle. But we didn't have to do that for F13, and I'd hope we won't have to for F14 either. The leaders of the various desktop SIGs are fairly confident that their SIGs will be able to contribute in running the tests and fixing blocker issues promptly as they're identified. I think the QA group will also be able to contribute to this process, particularly in carrying out the testing. If anyone from QA or any of the SIGs has comments or concerns on the proposal, please air them now! Thanks a lot :) If we do end up going ahead with the idea, I'll follow up with all of the SIGs when we hit the first round of validation testing to keep you all informed on how the process works and how to contribute to it. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
