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  • Fedora – My way back #1

    Well it all came together quite nicely last night.  I’d backed up my machine and decided that I wasn’t going to dual boot, I was going to remove Windows completely and install Fedora 29 on the whole of my drive.  Scared the hell out of me, but hay, 2019 let’s do it.

  • New maintainers needed for these packages

    I've recently realised that I am now busy enough to need to prioritise what tasks I undertake. Apart from my research work (PhD and related activities), I'd like to focus my time on NeuroFedora. Therefore, I'm giving up a lot of the packages that I've accrued over the years but no longer use. If any of these interest you, please take them from me. Otherwise, I will orphan them at the end of the month.

    I am quite happy to mentor contributors who are not yet packagers to help them learn the necessary skills. You can become a package maintainer by helping to co-maintain packages, as documented here.

  • New openQA tests: update installer tests and desktop app start/stop test

    It’s been a while since I wrote about significant developments in Fedora openQA, so today I’ll be writing about two! I wrote about one of them a bit in my last post, but that was primarily about a bug I ran into along the way, so now let’s focus on the changes themselves.

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    My colleague Lukáš Růžička has recently been looking into what we might be able to do to streamline and improve our desktop application testing, something I’d honestly been avoiding because it seemed quite intractable! After some great work by Lukáš, one major fruit of this work is now visible in Fedora openQA: a GNOME application start/stop test suite. Here’s an example run of it – note that more recent runs have a ton of failures caused by a change in GNOME, Lukáš has proposed a change to the test to address that but I have not yet reviewed it.

    This big test suite just tests starting and then exiting a large number of the default installed applications on the Fedora Workstation edition, making sure they both launch and exit successfully. This is of course pretty easy for a human to do – but it’s extremely tedious and time-consuming, so it’s something we don’t do very often at all (usually only a handful of times per release cycle), meaning we may not notice that an application which perhaps we don’t commonly use has a very critical bug (like failing to launch at all) for some time.

    Making an automated system like openQA do this is actually quite a lot of work, so it was a great job by Lukas to get it working. Now by monitoring the results of this test on the nightly composes closely, we should find out much more quickly if one of the tested applications is completely broken (or has gone missing entirely).

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