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New Fedora test lead begins work (NewsForge)New Fedora test lead begins work (NewsForge)Posted Jul 21, 2006 0:49 UTC (Fri) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)In reply to: New Fedora test lead begins work (NewsForge) by rahulsundaram Parent article: New Fedora test lead begins work (NewsForge)
I know the testing framework is available...
Here's what I would like, instead of adding driver disk support to the next release of Fedora, it could be added to Fedora Unity. Redhat employees would work with the Fedora Unity guys to make that happen. It would be a first class citizen. Redhat employees would spend some engineering time on it.
That's what I would really like.
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New Fedora test lead begins work (NewsForge) Posted Jul 21, 2006 6:08 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] I am not sure how driver disk support related to testing. Fedora Unity doesnt add anything beyond a respin that includes all of the formal updates and using the testing framework the community can share the work to make sure that it is well integrated.
Red Hat does not need to be involved in everything to make them "first class citizens".
New Fedora test lead begins work (NewsForge) Posted Jul 21, 2006 17:10 UTC (Fri) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link] >>I am not sure how driver disk support related to testing.
Driver disks support are just an example of things should have been tested, but weren't, so a bug was introduced. I gave other examples and I have more that I didn't give.
When bugs get missed in testing the perception is that (correct me if this is wrong) it won't get fixed until the next release. If there was an effort to fix the bugs and get the fixes to users quickly instead of waiting for six months I could use FC5. Fedora Unity could be way to do this and also it is a good tool for real world testing.
I have support requests to deal with right? The most common thing is that people can't reinstall their system. If I could tell them, Fedora Unity 3 will install on your system that would help me a lot.
New Fedora test lead begins work (NewsForge) Posted Jul 22, 2006 11:05 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Innumerous bugs are fixed within the updates so the perception if it exists is completely wrong. What doesnt get fixed after a release is made is bugs in the installer (Anaconda) itself.
If you use a Fedora Unity respin, you would get all the updates included within the release itself so that potentially saves you post installation work. When we make the testing framework available externally, the unity team would be able to use that and make sure they dont introduce any regressions compared to the original releases.
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