Re: Leaving the project

2014-05-20 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/20/2014 03:34 PM, Richard Ryniker wrote: Thank you for years of work to improve Fedora. All Fedora users benefit to some extent from your efforts. as WG's slowy turn into tiny little empires fighting amongst themselves for components directions and maintenance... Fedora (and linux in g

Re: Leaving the project

2014-05-20 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/20/2014 02:04 PM, Mike Ruckman wrote: I'm sorry to hear it, I was looking forward to getting a beer with you at some conference in the future. Good luck in whatever you go into next! Highly unlikely that would have ever happened since I had planned on never attesting a Fedora event agai

Re: Leaving the project

2014-05-20 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/20/2014 01:21 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote: Hi, Thank you for all your hard work on systemd integration! There are about 100 - 120 components left to migrate for the sys v migrate alone and total about 1000+ man hours to complete the integration properly so file a new feature for it if

Leaving the project

2014-05-20 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
Greetings yo all With regrets I must say I feel we have grown so fat we are about to collapse under our own weight but instead of properly start dealing with that within the project, people chose to ignore that fact but instead chose to force some future vision of RHEL 8 upon the project under

Re: Draft 'test outline' for Workstation product

2014-05-05 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/02/2014 04:29 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 10:39 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 05/01/2014 12:36 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: Hi, Here's the draft for the Workstation product[1]. It's completely based on Adam's draft for the Server produ

Re: Draft 'test outline' for Workstation product

2014-05-02 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 05/01/2014 12:36 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: Hi, Here's the draft for the Workstation product[1]. It's completely based on Adam's draft for the Server product. A lot more work needs to be done. I haven't discussed this with the workstation SIG yet. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursi

Re: Draft 'test outline' for Server product (what will be the broad scope of Server testing?)

2014-04-26 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 04/26/2014 02:04 AM, Mike Ruckman wrote: On Sat, 26 Apr 2014 00:10:22 + "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 04/25/2014 10:59 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 22:35 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 04/25/2014 09:43 PM, Adam Williamson wrote

Re: Draft 'test outline' for Server product (what will be the broad scope of Server testing?)

2014-04-25 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 04/25/2014 10:59 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 22:35 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 04/25/2014 09:43 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: we at least need to get the requisite new test cases and matrix templates (or whatever) drawn up, and decide on whose resp

Re: Draft 'test outline' for Server product (what will be the broad scope of Server testing?)

2014-04-25 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 04/25/2014 09:43 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: we at least need to get the requisite new test cases and matrix templates (or whatever) drawn up, and decide on whose responsibility all the testing we ultimately decide to do will be. Just keep those test matrix and test cases along with their ow

Re: Nasty Habits in Replying to Emails

2014-04-25 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 04/25/2014 03:52 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:10:17 -0400, Mickey wrote: Gentleman!!! when replying to a email LEAVE the contents of the orignal poster intact so the next person that reads the email can read what the poster had to say. That is not the process f

Re: 2014-04-14 - Fedora QA Meeting - minutes

2014-04-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 04/15/2014 04:03 AM, Mike Ruckman wrote: We're each going to be working with the WG's to help them draft their test plans for their products - in an attempt (AIUI) to keep consistent test plans throughout the whole Fedora.next ecosystem. Though I understand how that could read as we're just d

Re: 2014-04-14 - Fedora QA Meeting - minutes

2014-04-14 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 04/15/2014 12:02 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: * adamw to draft a test plan for Server product * roshi to draft a test plan for Cloud product * FranciscoD to draft a test plan for Workstation product Any particular reason why we are drafting test plans for the products? JBG -- test mailing li

Re: [Test-Announce] 2014-04-07 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

2014-04-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 04/07/2014 06:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: 2. Rawhide validation testing Before this continues we need to rewrite the entire release criteria, limiting it to Anaconda and BaseWG followed by test cases and release validation in that regard. Once that is completed we should introduce wor

Re: Rawhide validation testing matrix proposal

2014-04-04 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 04/04/2014 04:05 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Does this look OK to everyone? Thanks! Is not better to have this separated/sorted by milestones ( alpha/beta/final) as well as aligned with Mike's test maps? And this probably should also be tagged with what's applicable to each workgroup so

Re: Proposal: Rawhide installation validation testing

2014-04-01 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 04/01/2014 04:27 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: If anyone has any ideas to improve/refine this effort, do reply! Has this been cordinated with devs so found issues from this process will be looked at ( they themselves might just ignore reported bugs if they are working themselves on other cha

Re: [Fwd: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2014-02-19)]

2014-02-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 02/19/2014 08:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: "AGREED: the new mattdm's proposal for EOL bug procedure is approved" - this ishttps://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1198 , the "new proposal" that was approved is https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1198#comment:67 . It's not a huge change from

Re: Suggested activities during the pre-F21 lull

2014-01-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/22/2014 12:35 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote: focus away from Adam's initial thought. As I said we should also spend time on improving the QA community now since this really is the time for that ( and for a long time our opportunity to do so ) so dont hesitate to share with us your ideas and t

Re: Suggested activities during the pre-F21 lull

2014-01-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/22/2014 03:32 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: You seem to be trolling. I cannot see the humour in your post nor the intentions behind your wink. That's not my problem if you don't see the humor in my post and yes I did read Adam's email. And do me a favor never ever respond to my emails

Re: Supported CPUs'

2014-01-21 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/21/2014 02:30 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: Had a choice between here or kernel@ Apologies if it somewhere, more grey hair && less grey matter. Does test@ fedora give a heads up, when cpus are no longer supported. eg kernel-3-15* will no longer support AMD AM2, Intel whatever Mister Google ha

Re: Suggested activities during the pre-F21 lull

2014-01-20 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/21/2014 01:49 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: Or you can simply skip all that and share with us your ideas and thoughts how we can improve QA to make it more awesome then it already is ;) And we can see if we cant find the time even resources to push your ideas or thoughts forward and see w

Re: Release criteria proposal: explicit requirements for keyboard layouts

2014-01-14 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/14/2014 04:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: I'm working on the assumption that there'll still be a base product for us to validate whatever else happens, and it's better to keep working on our processes for that than to just sit around on our hands. -- On that note just add it we can revisi

Re: Release criteria proposal: explicit requirements for keyboard layouts

2014-01-14 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/14/2014 09:24 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: ACK in general. Nack We will need to refactor the entire criteria around the output from WG's if the board will sanction the injustice that's going on. Technically there is nothing preventing us doing that now with base since they have decided up

Re: Updated QA Join page

2014-01-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/07/2014 10:15 PM, Mike Ruckman wrote: On Fri, 3 Jan 2014 22:05:24 -0700 Mike Ruckman wrote: Hey all! After some talking with danofsatx and looking through the wiki, we thought the Join page could use a little de-wallification. Dan and I have created an alternate page I propose we use i

Re: fedora in 2013

2014-01-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/06/2014 10:09 PM, Tim Flink wrote: I don't have a specific percentage but from my POV, not as much as I was hoping but still within my expectations. We ended up being thrown a couple of unexpected curveballs which chewed up a decent amount of time but I don't think we're any more than a w

Re: fedora in 2013

2014-01-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/06/2014 09:39 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Of course, anything else we can do to free up not just Tim and Kamil, but anyone else with the necessary knowledge and skills, to contribute to tooling work is a good thing. Which brings up an interesting question how much did they manage to cove

Re: fedora in 2013

2014-01-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/06/2014 09:16 PM, Tim Flink wrote: On Mon, 06 Jan 2014 20:20:45 + "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 01/06/2014 05:42 PM, Tim Flink wrote: I want to focus on getting the base automation working well so that we can go to the WGs with "here's our automation sy

Re: fedora in 2013

2014-01-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/06/2014 05:42 PM, Tim Flink wrote: I want to focus on getting the base automation working well so that we can go to the WGs with "here's our automation system and this is how you write tasks for it. we'll help with getting tasks run but you all need to maintain the ones specific to you a

Re: Hello Everyone,

2014-01-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/06/2014 07:20 PM, Chris A. Roberts wrote: Hi Everyone, I am looking to help out the QA team with testing. Handsome Pirate has helped me learn the testing process with easy karma and has sponsored me in the group. I am looking forward to helping out and getting to know everyone. my irc

Re: qa-devel meeting this week (Wednesday or Thursday)

2014-01-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/06/2014 06:48 PM, Tim Flink wrote: I had been thinking about doing this, but John brought it up during the qa meeting today. As we're done with both the holidays (read: vacation for many folks) and F20, it's probably a good time to talk about where we are with the various qa development p

Re: fedora in 2013

2014-01-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 01/06/2014 02:52 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: Hi Fedora test and QA folks! I posted a (kind of long) message on Fedora devel with some thoughts about the direction of the project in the next year. A lot of it directly affects -- and is affected by, of course -- Fedora QA, and the whole third sec

Re: 2013-12-23 - Fedora QA Meeting - recap

2013-12-30 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/30/2013 08:20 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: 3.https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Roshi/QA/Join We rewrite rethink several section from this. JBG -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test

Re: Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

2013-12-20 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On fös 20.des 2013 19:24, Adam Williamson wrote: I've stuck a meeting agenda item for the group membership stuff in for Monday, we can chat about it there...maybe you could draft some specific changes to the current group description texts? The only issues that I have been bit concern with is n

Re: Thoughts about Travis-CI integration

2013-12-18 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On mið 18.des 2013 15:52, Alexander Todorov wrote: * Are there any volunteers to join me in planning and coordinating this project? We need to somehow prioritize which packages need inspection and working on, count the available test cases, report bugs if missing, produce patches, etc. It w

Re: Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

2013-12-17 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On þri 17.des 2013 23:05, John Dulaney wrote: What do you mean, "mutilate it to serv it's corporate purpose"? Are you stating that since I now work for Red Hat, I'm evil? No I'm stating that because of the history and that history should not be allowed to be forgotten and you are not suddenl

Re: Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

2013-12-17 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On þri 17.des 2013 04:26, John Dulaney wrote: Ahoy, So, I am with Adam on this one (I'm not a mod?). I've been +1 for this idea for quite some time now. Johann, I've been around for a long time, even longer than Adam, and I don't remember the original purpose for the QA group; I do vaguely re

Re: Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

2013-12-16 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On mán 16.des 2013 22:12, Adam Williamson wrote: What, in your estimation, would be the right place? Instead of just saying 'no', can you provide an alternative solution to the problem? Solution to fix this lies not within in us ( QA ) the alternative solution requires a real change in the pr

Re: Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

2013-12-16 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On mán 16.des 2013 22:22, Adam Williamson wrote: If you mean "Then limit that group entirely with providing him and others with that." - well, that's already what we'd be doing. The proposal isn't to make the QA group required for anything at all in relation to QA. The proposal is just to add al

Re: Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

2013-12-16 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On mán 16.des 2013 22:10, Adam Williamson wrote: I'm not playing any game...in fact, the thing that prompted me to finally write this email was Dan asking on #fedora-qa if there was a FAS group we could put him in so he'd have fedorapeople space! The limit that group entirely with providing hi

Re: Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

2013-12-16 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On mán 16.des 2013 22:08, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 22:06:44 +, "\"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\"" wrote: Adam is right about what's wrong but as so often he's trying to fix it in the wrong place... Access to those reources are control

Re: Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

2013-12-16 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On mán 16.des 2013 21:45, Mike Ruckman wrote: For those of us who haven't been with QA for even a year yet, can you give a brief "too long; didn't read" synopsis of your reasoning and where it stems from? Without some form of background it's hard to infer what your reasoning is. You can look a

Re: Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

2013-12-16 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On mán 16.des 2013 21:48, Dan Mossor wrote: I may be misinterpreting, but what do you have against volunteers? Especially since Fedora is a volunteer-driven project? Dont fall into whatever game Adam is playing by reviving this group. JBG -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

2013-12-16 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On mán 16.des 2013 21:00, Adam Williamson wrote: Even though we don't really have a lot of use for the FAS group, None what so ever. Fedora as a whole is set up such that 'being a member of a FAS group' is a bar to entry for some things, Not with us and never should be. so it seems lik

Re: Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

2013-12-16 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On mán 16.des 2013 20:32, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 12:23 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: >Right now me, James Laska, Will Woods and Jesse Keating are the admins >of the QA group. This is obviously a bit silly. I'll drop jlaska's, >wwoods' and jesses' admin roles, and make som

Re: Proposal: let's just use the FAS group already

2013-12-16 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On mán 16.des 2013 20:23, Adam Williamson wrote: How does that sound? Seems like something we can just get done already. It sounds like a bad plan revoke the QA group previously occupied and manage by RH staff only and I'm strongly against that. So why are you planning to revert what we a

Re: Criterion revision proposal: KDE default applications

2013-12-14 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On lau 14.des 2013 00:54, Adam Williamson wrote: That requires will on the part of the desktop SIGs, though. QA is not going to be responsible for this. My position is either the desktop SIGs fix their stuff, or we will have to change the criteria as I proposed, because what other choice do we h

Re: Criterion revision proposal: KDE default applications

2013-12-12 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On fös 13.des 2013 06:30, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 05:31 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On fös 13.des 2013 02:05, Adam Williamson wrote: It was clear at the Go/No-Go meeting today that KDE SIG does not consider this release criterion applicable/desi

Re: Criterion revision proposal: KDE default applications

2013-12-12 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On fös 13.des 2013 02:05, Adam Williamson wrote: It was clear at the Go/No-Go meeting today that KDE SIG does not consider this release criterion applicable/desired: "All applications that can be launched using the standard graphical mechanism of a release-blocking desktop after a default insta

Re: systemd-journald flush hangs system

2013-12-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/11/2013 01:50 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Received request to flush runtime journal from PID 1" With limited info it could be the kernel or it could simply be short on space on /var ? Follow http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/ and see if you get something more meani

Re: New test case: SMB browsing

2013-12-07 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/06/2013 11:41 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Hi, folks. I've been doing some polish testing on F20 in the last few days, and thought it'd make sense to write up my tests as test cases. Here's the first: Thoughts, queries, corrections, improvements etc? Thanks! As long as you dont start putt

Re: Who can close BZs?

2013-12-06 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 12/06/2013 03:56 PM, Karel Volný wrote: Hi, Dne pátek, 6. prosince 2013 16:19:35 CEST, Clyde E. Kunkel napsal(a): Is there a policy or other guidance on who is allowed to close another persons bz? For example, can a person who is not a member of the action developer or bugzappers group c

Re: Seeking a candidate for the Server Working Group

2013-11-26 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/26/2013 06:24 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: The Server Working Group is a team focused on the development of a server-OS built from the Fedora Project. Recently, the chair held by Jóhann B. Guðmundsson was vacated. At today's Working Group meeting[1], we agreed that we would li

Re: Should we update our bug reporting procedures/process ?

2013-11-04 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/04/2013 10:37 AM, Alexander Todorov wrote: На 1.11.2013 21:03, moshe nahmias написа: I think that some of the problem is that you have to register to file a bug. There is no reason to register if you just want the developer to know there is a bug and from then on no interaction unless n

Re: Should we update our bug reporting procedures/process ?

2013-11-01 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 11/01/2013 10:03 AM, Alexander Todorov wrote: Hi folks, recently OpenSource.com published an article of mine explaining why users should take the extra step to submit a bug: http://opensource.com/business/13/10/user-guide-bugs-open-source-projects It is based on real event, which happened

Re: conditional blocker language

2013-10-22 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/22/2013 07:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 11:23 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Blocker_Bug_FAQ Existing: When a bug causes a criterion not to be met in some but not all cases, the teams involved in the release process will make a judgement

Re: [Test-Announce] 2013-10-16 16:00 UTC - F20 Beta Blocker Bug Review #4

2013-10-16 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/16/2013 03:08 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: clone-of-a-private-RHEL-bug thing. Which is the problem RHEL bugs should not be cloned to to Fedora but the other way around since we are upstream for RHEL. JBG -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fed

Re: [Test-Announce] 2013-10-16 16:00 UTC - F20 Beta Blocker Bug Review #4

2013-10-16 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/16/2013 11:59 AM, Richard Ryniker wrote: Unnecessary "private" designation for a bug report might be due to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1011916 which complains that a bug reporter has to decide about "private" status before possibly sensitive information in the report c

Re: [Test-Announce] 2013-10-16 16:00 UTC - F20 Beta Blocker Bug Review #4

2013-10-16 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/16/2013 02:14 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: dlehman proposedhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1019500 as a Beta Blocker, andhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1019502 as a Final Blocker, but both are private, so they need to be fixed before the meeting. Great yet another

Anaconda payload testing

2013-10-15 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
Greetings If people get bored on traditional installation testing of Anaconda there is an dnf preview in Anaconda which introduces among st other things payload or parallel downloads of all packages which means it's going to be faster for network installations ( unscientific measurements yiel

Re: Let's stop using wiki for test results

2013-10-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/11/2013 04:47 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Well, 'we' didn't, really. Josef just thought it would be a useful thing to have, so he wrote it, and someone running a test day wound up using it. There was no strategic meeting or grand conspiracy or plan or something. This is how stuff happens in

Re: Let's stop using wiki for test results

2013-10-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/11/2013 03:49 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: Is it a language comprehension issue or do you just deliberately misrepresent what people say to match what you want to believe? That response was asking if you had any suggestions, not implying that no research was done. I know you were here for th

Re: Let's stop using wiki for test results

2013-10-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/11/2013 02:03 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 13:42 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: Hmm when was it decided that we should write our own app to replace the wiki instead of trying to (re)use something other distribution are using? Such as? Exactly as I

Re: Let's stop using wiki for test results

2013-10-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/11/2013 01:05 PM, Josef Skladanka wrote: Hi, first of all - thanks for the kind words! I mailed the testday-owners during F19, I honestly forgot to promote it now (my bad, I guess we could add it to some 'HOW TO' for testdays, if it exists). The app still has it's limits (and I have not

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 20 Gnome Test Day, October 10th

2013-10-09 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/09/2013 01:41 PM, Alexander Todorov wrote: Join IRC #fedora-test-day on FreeNode if you get into trouble. Report all bugs preferably at upstream bugzilla [3] or Red Hat bugzilla [4]. Does this mean all apps will be latest & greatest ? My experience with GNOME upstream is that if you ar

Stabilize anaconda development earlier in the cycle.

2013-10-08 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/07/2013 08:28 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: * viking-ice suggested pushing to have anaconda development cycle adjusted to stabilize earlier in the cycle As I suggested on the meeting I have started that discussion with the Anaconda developers and the thread for that can be found here [¹]

Re: Looking for Test Day Volunteers

2013-10-01 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 10/01/2013 10:02 PM, Mike Ruckman wrote: For anyone who might be interested, there are a couple test days looking for volunteers to run them. Throughout the week of 2013-10-22 we have 4 test days scheduled for a 'Graphics Test Week,' but these days currently don't have coordinators. Those th

Re: Question: What are Fedora 20 test days business hours in Europe

2013-09-25 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/25/2013 02:43 PM, Kamil Paral wrote: Hi, I'll try to organize a few people locally in Sofia to participate in Fedora 20 test days, currently interested in Virtualization Test Day and Gnome Test Day on Oct 8th and 10th. looking at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-10-10_Gnome_3

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 10:07 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: which I would summarize as: - You asked about us running our own bugzilla. - We mentioned we have been thinking about this and pointed to the above wiki page. - We noted at this time that we aren't wanting to do so, but are happy to hear more info

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 10:07 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Again, if you want to be productive could you detail the exact pain points you have and we can try and alleviate them with RH bugzilla team. Unlimited unhindered hacking access to bugzilla for one, an full disclosure of the RH administrative policy in

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 10:07 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: We do modify accounts all the time. (How do you think fedorabugs works?) I needed to migrate all of my bugs to another account tied to one of my email address then delete it ( old work account ) and that was not possible JBG -- test mailing list tes

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 09:21 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, Jonathan Kamens said: Rather, it feels to me like you've already made up your mind and are just putting on a show of listening to other people's opinions before going ahead and doing what you wanted to do all along. If you have read

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 09:14 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote: Jóhann, I do not think you are participating in this discussion with your mind open to the possibility that you may be wrong. People have offered many reasons why they think what you are proposing is a bad idea. You have failed to acknowledge th

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 07:17 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote: As Michael Schwendt has pointed out, NEW implies neither that the bug hasn't been looked at nor that there has been no activity on it. Russ Herrold is also correct: if bugs are not being looked at, then that's not the fault of the bug-tracking sys

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 07:33 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:55:40 +, "\"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\"" wrote: The jury is not out on that infra has already stated that we wont be having our own bug tracker due to lack of man power which means we cannot impl

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 07:28 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 06:35:46PM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 09/24/2013 03:48 PM, Michal Jaegermann wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:46:51AM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: So from my point of view

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 06:42 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:35:46 +, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: Really... Let's run a simple query against bugzilla for bugs in the status NEW ( as in not looked at ) NEW doesn't imply "not looked at". And it doesn&

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 03:48 PM, Michal Jaegermann wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:46:51AM +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: > >So from my point of view we wont be gathering reports from novices >end users in 10 years time. This is a plain self-fulfilling prophecy. If you

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 01:00 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote: Oh, so now we're trotting out credentials to make our case No I was just making the point that I have been the nr1 arguing against what I'm proposing now for many years so I'm aware of all the inconvenience it will bring reporters. You can go t

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 12:50 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:44:02 + "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: I'm not sure what that response is supposed to be adding to the discussion since it's a well known fact the discomfort it brings to reporters to have them go upstr

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 12:41 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: So, basically you want users to go find the bugzilla, I can see how the will help keep the distro running, unless you just want QA, and Packagers only using it. For one, I won't be signing up to every site to track bugs, if bz is broke, help fix it! N

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 12:30 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:28:18 + "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 09/24/2013 12:19 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote: . In fact, there are four stakeholders: QA, packagers, upstream, and users. What efforts are being made to solicit useful fee

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 11:45 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: There is no such rough split between package (co-)maintainers and "the QA community". I don't even know how you define "the QA community". Those that participate in QA community activity testing/reporting etc. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedor

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 12:19 PM, Jonathan Kamens wrote: . In fact, there are four stakeholders: QA, packagers, upstream, and users. What efforts are being made to solicit useful feedback from all four groups? ? There are 2 stake holders in this 1 QA Community ( which includes reporters ) 2 the develo

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 11:22 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: _Why_ are they "in no communication with upstream"? ? Because there is no requirement for them doing so when they become maintainers for a given package nor is it being ensured if package is orphaned that the maintainer that takes it over is i

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 10:45 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: Great idea, but how would one know all that upstream bug tracker URLs for all packages that are shipped with Fedora? Is there any tag in RPM package spec file that could be used to provide such information and are you planning to extend package

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 09:17 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 09/24/2013 10:25 AM, Jan Wildeboer wrote: That said, I regret having to tell you that your plan is dumb, naive, and far from being workable. That said, I regret having to tell you that insulting the OP instead of pointing out relevant argum

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 05:24 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:49:23 + "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: Greetings you all After bit of irc discussion there is a compelling reason to move entirely away from Red Hat bugzilla as well as away from concept of hosting our own.

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 06:45 AM, Dan Horák wrote: we are missing a tool that would clone the Fedora bugs from bugzilla to upstream bug trackers. I think the removal of the manual work needed to copy all the information from bugzilla to upstream tracker would be appreciated by the packagers. I have the ide

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 05:50 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Exactly, users are reporting bugs against a product called "Fedora", not against another party's product called "package". In that sense it's a Fedora package maintainer's duty to arbitrate processing bug reports and communicate them to appropriate

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 03:10 AM, Jonathan Kamens wrote: On 09/23/2013 10:03 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 09/24/2013 01:45 AM, Michal Jaegermann wrote: This absolutely does not scale from a POV of a user reporting bugs. Well neither does it do so from developer standpoint that a

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/24/2013 01:45 AM, Michal Jaegermann wrote: This absolutely does not scale from a POV of a user reporting bugs. Well neither does it do so from developer standpoint that also has to maintain downstream distribution bugzilla accounts. Basically the amount of work and the effort are on pa

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/23/2013 11:55 PM, Felix Miata wrote: What to do when someone discovers what is clearly a problem but neither he nor anyone reading his report here or on devel list can tell whether the bug is in kernel, driver, xorg, gnome/kde/xfce/etc. or something else? Well I'm pretty sure upstream

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/23/2013 11:07 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Jan Wildeboer (jwild...@redhat.com) said: How will you track blocker bugs? How can we see a global view of all open bugs? Aggregate from X upstream bug report systems? Which not all are Bugzilla? How can we track critical bugs? Additional concer

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/23/2013 10:59 PM, Jan Wildeboer wrote: How will you track blocker bugs? Given that we are the ones filling them that's should not be an hard issue to overcome. How can we see a global view of all open bugs? Aggregate from X upstream bug report systems? Which not all are Bugzilla? H

Re: Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/23/2013 10:43 PM, nonamedotc wrote: While I do think this is a good idea, I am a few immediate concerns on which I would request a bit more information/guidance - 1. What if a bug is due to a specific combination libraries or builds in Fedora and not necessarily an upstream issue? Upst

Moving away from reporting to RH bugzilla and adopting pure upstream reporting mantra.

2013-09-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
Greetings you all After bit of irc discussion there is a compelling reason to move entirely away from Red Hat bugzilla as well as away from concept of hosting our own. Now it pretty much boils down to this. 1. Generic attitude of many maintainers is that reports either go to the correct pla

Re: upcoming bugzilla change for entering new bugs

2013-09-11 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 09/11/2013 04:47 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: Greetings. I thought I would pass along a upcoming change to bugzilla and see if anyone saw problems or issues with it before it lands. The change is tracked in this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950315 Basically it will replace the

Re: [fedora-arm] Proposed Base and Desktop matrix adjustments for ARM as primary

2013-08-20 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 08/20/2013 10:35 AM, Kamil Paral wrote: On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 23:45 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: Following on my little series, we also need to adjust the Base and Desktop matrices for ARM as primary arch, but the good news is the changes are pretty simple. As discussed at the QA meeting th

Re: Draft terminal application test case

2013-07-31 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/31/2013 05:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 17:28 +, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: On 07/30/2013 10:22 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Proposing a new draft release validation test case: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_Testcase_deskto

Re: Draft terminal application test case

2013-07-31 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/30/2013 10:22 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Proposing a new draft release validation test case: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_QA_Testcase_desktop_terminal this is a fairly simple test case that just checks that a terminal application works in a desktop environment. It wo

Re: 2013-07-22 - Fedora QA Meeting - recap

2013-07-23 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/23/2013 09:59 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: * Changes/AppInstaller[2] may result in us using two depsolvers in official packaging tools Wont this affect our criteria No broken package/Use for severe issues in applying updates/Updates etc? JBG -- test mailing list test@li

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