[Sugar-devel] Become a proven Fedora tester

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> === Background ===
> in Fedora the QA team is trying to keep the quality high by having different
> states of update packages intended for a maintained release of Fedora.
>
> The updates-testing repository, contains updates scheduled to be released
> for the maintained releases of Fedora. User testing and feedback provided
> via Bodhi, on the test mailing list and the relevant Bugzilla is vital to
> ensure that good updates are released quickly and bad ones kept away from
> release.
>
> Feedback from proven testers [1] is required for critical path package
> updates.
>
> === Task ===
> The Geode video driver in Fedora (XO-1) [2] is one of those critical path
> packages. As you see from the link, it already has positive feedback, so it
> needs the '+1' from a proven packager in order to get into the stable
> repository.
>
> If you are interested in helping out with this specific issue and maybe are
> interested in later testing other olpc/sugar related packages in Fedora that
> would be great. In case you don't know yet, there are some interesting
> discussions going on about incorporating Sugar
> and SoaS testing into the QA process [3].

I've getting a segfault in X on my Fit-PC. I'll do some more testing
this afternoon on both that and an XO-1

Peter