2011/2/26 Remy CLOUARD <shikamaru@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.

- 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

- 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 ?

- documentation / check-list is available from http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=qa_test-day

- 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...).