[Mageia-dev] Test day today

Sun Feb 27 07:57:51 CET 2011

Re,
+
+2011/2/26 Remy CLOUARD <shikamaru at mandriva.org>
+
+> Hi, you may have or may not have seen it, we plan to do a test day today
+> for mageia alpha 1 iso.
+>  The plan is to test both install and upgrade from mandriva 2010.1.
+>
+
+I think we've achieved some results :
+- IRC is effective for support (we already knew it), thanks to people
+joining in #mageia-dev and #mageia-qa :-)
+- after packager meeting, blog and ML have been used to let know a test-day
+was happening, well on short notice indeed :-) next test-day  will have to
+be announced sooner
+- documentation currently available for testing can be used afterwards
+- IRC chan made some support, though feedback was not formalized :/ (bugs
+opened ? mails ?)
+- so, the experience may be worth to do again a bit before alpha2 is
+published, so that blockers are identified (non-working situation or
+critical bug that may have been overlooked). We may review this at next
+packager meeting ?
+
+What worked:
+- some people came, even for an alpha1
+- documentation / check-list is available from
+http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=qa_test-day
+- support is effective when questions are asked
+
+What can be enhanced:
+- we may announce sooner, so that people have time to prepare (download iso,
+suggest additions to test-plan)
+- matrix results? this would show what works, what has been tested and
+identify new tests
+- identify availabilities along the day (for example, I was only there from
+0h42 UTC till 2:00 then 12:00 - 18:00 UTC)
+- do not be shy: just ask on irc #mageia-dev or #mageia-qa, you'll get an
+answer even if you do not see much activity :)
+- even though there's a dedicated test-day, testing is part of the dev
+process, do not hesitate to ask on IRC or ML when something unexpectedly
+works or (perhaps) does not :-) IMHO, there are many people there for help,
+just ask, you may get an answer ;-)
+
+AFAIC, I began testing upgrading from 2010.2 to cauldron in VirtualBox, see
+http://mageiacauldron.tuxfamily.org/TestingMageia1Upgrade20102
+It worked well, better than I expected as it only took 3 hours to upgrade
+instead of the usual 4h. Some mdv packages remain as expected, above
+expectation is that libreoffice is operational (and replaces completely
+openoffice.org), as you may see I've got some bugs to be opened after
+checking if they are not already there :) (see the wiki page for detail).
+BTW, maybe hwreport can be packaged immediately as a simple rebuild worked
+for me (I can maintain the package if needed), see
+http://hardware4linux.info/distrib/44407/ (though next step will be hardware
+testing, instead of a virtualbox installation). I'll test with smolt in the
+following days ;-)
+
+Thanks damsweb, tmb and ali3n, ahmad78 - and all others I may have forgetten
+- for quick answers :) and thanks to all that got involved in this test day
+(let us know what you achieved, could not do, even if you were at
+swimming-pool on this specific day :p). Rendez-vous for preparing alpha2,
+see http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=iso_1_specifications for a tentative
+planning, if all^Was many of you get involved, we're planning for the best
+:)
+
+Looking for next test-day ;-) (and do not hesitate for day to day questions
+on irc relating to triage, documentation...).
+@++
+Ben'. aka baud123
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