15:00:25 #startmeeting Fedora QA meeting 15:00:25 Meeting started Mon Oct 10 15:00:25 2016 UTC. The chair is adamw. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 15:00:25 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 15:00:25 The meeting name has been set to 'fedora_qa_meeting' 15:00:29 #meetingname fedora-qa 15:00:29 The meeting name has been set to 'fedora-qa' 15:00:32 #topic Roll call 15:00:39 morning folks, who's here for qa meeting times? 15:00:51 * tenk is here 15:01:09 * garretraziel seems to be here 15:01:51 garretraziel: while we're waiting - you saw i commented on your ARM kernel/initramfs naming diff, right? 15:02:18 yeah, I have noticed not long ago 15:02:39 I'm going to install you scratchbuild of openQA and test my diff with it 15:02:48 * kparal is here 15:02:54 * pschindl_ is here 15:03:00 * Southern_Gentlem 15:05:02 morning folks 15:05:41 hello 15:06:46 welp, guess that's everyone :) 15:07:02 #topic Previous meeting follow-up 15:07:44 #info "adamw to arrange a Wayland test day" - we have a ticket for this and I'm aiming to run it this Thursday, 2016-10-13: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/492 15:07:53 i'll set up the page and send out announcements tomorrow 15:07:55 * coremodule is here, late. 15:08:00 morning coremodule 15:08:19 Good morning! 15:08:27 "sumantro to organize a test day for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BetterSwitchableGraphicsSupport" 15:08:32 anyone know where we're up to on that one? 15:10:48 * kparal doesn't 15:11:00 i guess i'll throw it back on the agenda for next time 15:11:07 #action sumantro to organize a test day for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BetterSwitchableGraphicsSupport 15:11:27 #info "adamw to run firmware/hardware RAID tests" - did that, along with pschindl, it made for an interesting week...:) 15:12:29 #info "coremodule to run Cloud tests" - tests were run by lbrabec for beta 15:13:20 #info "adamw and sumantro to blog, mail, social media etc. i18n Test Day" - we did that, looks like there was a good turnout for the event: http://testdays.fedorainfracloud.org/events/10 15:13:40 #info "sumantro to send post-event report for FMW Test Day" - he'd actually already done that and we missed it, but he did it again 15:14:10 #info "adamw to troll for interest in release validation app development project outside of test@ list" - i've set up a trac ticket for the design, for now: https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/483 15:14:32 #info "adamw to do some very preliminary work on validation app planning, maybe with design WG" - see above 15:14:48 whew, that was a bumper crop. any other previous meeting follow up before we move on? 15:15:06 would love to send my respins though autoqa 15:16:26 do you mean openqa? 15:16:46 yes 15:17:07 yeah, i'd like to set that up but it's on the list of 'things i'd like to find time for', heh 15:17:49 oh if only we could just divide in two... 15:17:54 adamw: you can do it now, temporarily, by hand 15:17:59 don't you? 15:18:01 yeah, you could 15:18:21 we should throw up a phab issue for it i guess 15:18:32 yeah 15:18:53 doesn't upstream plan on something like this? infrastructure for submitting your own isos for testing? 15:19:00 they do? 15:19:11 i hadn't heard 15:20:39 hmm, maybe that was only impression I got when I talked about https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/issues/684 with them 15:20:42 #action garretraziel or adamw to file a phab ticket for looking into setting up openQA testing of the post-release live respins 15:20:51 garretraziel: i'm not saying you're wrong, just i hadn't heard about it :) 15:21:06 alrighty 15:21:13 #topic Fedora 25 Beta post-mortem 15:21:24 so we signed off on Beta last week, on time - many thanks for all the testing work, everyone! 15:21:33 #info thanks to all for their work testing F25 Beta 15:21:55 i'm not aware of anything out of the ordinary we still need to do around Beta, is anyone? 15:22:10 kparal: did you do anything on commonbugs yet? 15:22:16 not yet 15:22:17 * adamw is technically on a vacation day today 15:22:25 ok, i'll look at it later then 15:22:35 I'll have a look as well 15:22:40 * kparal forgot about that 15:23:58 #action adamw and kparal to update commonbugs for Beta 15:24:16 Columbus Day in the U.S. (is it still called that?) 15:24:34 It is - weird, whatever. 15:25:32 cmurf yes its one of those holidays people bank for later 15:25:33 i dunno, i'm in Canada. :P it's Thanksgiving 15:25:47 silly americans think that comes next month, but they are of course wrong 15:25:52 of course 15:26:03 Japan, today was off to, don't know why 15:26:05 But I wouldn't be anywhere near a computer on Thanksgivign 15:26:49 welp 15:26:59 sounds like we don't have any Beta fires to worry about, which is good... 15:27:21 moving onto: 15:27:25 #topic Fedora 25 Final planning 15:28:11 #info dates for Final: freeze 2016-11-01, go/no-go 2016-11-10 15:28:16 so keep those in mind :) 15:28:36 do we have any major concerns about Final going forward? how are we feeling about the Wayland switch, comfortable? 15:28:57 not stellar, but ok 15:29:33 the paste-into-password-overlay bug i personally was stuck on is claimed fixed upstream now... 15:29:57 so is wayland going to be default for only gdm or for workstation? 15:30:03 adamw: display rotation still doesn't work for me properly 15:30:08 I have some odd duck Wayland things every now and then. We may start to see transient issues once the big ones are fixed. 15:30:09 Southern_Gentlem: for workstation, unless anyone pulls any escape cords 15:30:17 Yeah no display rotating is a bit of a bummer. 15:30:23 I'll live. 15:30:37 * kparal now has to use only 2 monitors 15:30:48 but we will have the option for gnome-X correct? 15:30:54 yes 15:31:03 Some programs with multiple windows, suddenly one window will becomed "pinned" forward in the layering stack so any other windows from any other program including itself will always drag behind that pinned window. 15:31:09 as long as we have a choice thats fine 15:31:18 But it's not a freak out moment. 15:31:32 cmurf: I haven't seen that oe 15:31:33 one 15:31:42 yeah, realistically we're gonna have to live with a few bugs, it's kinda inevitable 15:31:44 It happens somewhat often with Leaf 15:31:47 but i haven't heard about anything disastrous yet 15:31:51 Leafpad 15:31:57 No disasters 15:32:06 Surprisingly quite calm. 15:32:44 But hey let's wait until the Beta gets into people's hands :D 15:32:49 yeah :P 15:33:13 * satellit sorry I am late 15:33:18 fire him! 15:33:29 .fire cmurf now, now, no need for that. 15:33:29 adamw fires cmurf now, now, no need for that. 15:33:33 :D 15:33:52 morning satellit 15:34:06 so we should definitely be getting the Final validation tests run ASAP 15:34:24 we had good test coverage for Beta, but a lot of the Final tests weren't run, we need to be finding out where that stuff is broken 15:35:00 is it true that mediawriter does not work in wayland? 15:35:02 please do run some Final tests against Beta and fill out the tables if you have time, new nightly compose nomination should come soonish (the robot will decide) 15:35:15 satellit: huh, i hadn't heard that...kparal? have you tried? 15:35:29 satellit: that's liveusb-creator 15:35:37 marketed as FMW in gnome-software 15:35:43 an update is pending to fix the names 15:36:05 Yeah that situ is confusing. 15:36:34 Beta hits getfedora.org when? 15:36:36 Tomorrow? 15:37:09 I believe so 15:37:11 then the mediawriter in f25 workstation updated today mediawriter installed with gnome-software does not start.... 15:37:25 I'm a bit concerned about the macOS Fedora Media Writer, and a fallback if it's not signed by tomorrow, or otherwise doesn't launch. 15:37:38 satellit: can you try running mediawriter from the terminal? 15:37:45 is this still liveusb-creator renamed in gnome-software? 15:37:56 will boot it 15:38:04 satellit: yes, most probably 15:38:08 satellit: the one to test is mediawriter; the package name is 'mediawriter' and so is the command name, i believe 15:38:15 k 15:38:23 but liveusb-creator for now still exists and recent versions of it do still show up as 'Media Writer' in the overview, confusingly 15:39:01 and the correct one is still not visible in gnome-software 15:39:07 ok 15:39:21 So priority this week is to test last nighlty compose with Final tests? 15:39:59 tenk: for now the Beta is the 'current' compose, so run Final tests on the Beta compose 15:40:10 tenk: when a new nightly is selected for testing there'll be an announcement mail as usual 15:40:15 and report to Beta matrices 15:40:18 yep 15:40:38 alright, any more on Final planning before we move on? 15:41:34 nothing here 15:42:12 #topic Test Day status 15:42:22 so, sumantro's not around again, so probably not much here 15:42:31 i'm a bit behind on the wayland one but aiming to pull it together tomorrow 15:45:40 #info sumantro is not around so we don't have much to discuss here, wayland test day is behind but adamw will try to get it done tomorrow 15:45:51 #topic 'Default boot and install' validation test proposal / USB testing 15:46:21 so this is about that proposal i mailed for revising the 'default boot and install' / usb matrices 15:46:26 thanks for the reply today kparal 15:46:33 did anyone else have comments on the proposal they didn't mail yet? 15:47:52 no 15:47:59 but question about splitting out boot 15:48:31 kparal's idea sounds compelling but at what point in startup is the actual cutoff? 15:48:55 cmurf: talking about a) ? 15:48:56 so the situations we've had issues with there before, iirc, fall into three buckets... 15:49:04 1) actually reaching anaconda at all 15:49:22 2) detecting attached disks (the 'filter out "protected" usb devices' code can affect this) 15:49:46 3) using the packages on the image, for DVD-type images 15:49:48 kparal: yes 15:50:05 3) is the one you actually need to *run the install* to be entirely sure about 15:50:34 however, it's likely to stay the same regardless of environment, right? 15:50:47 mehhhhh, i dunno. :P 15:50:51 me either 15:50:52 dvd vs usb, bios vs uefi, bare metal vs vm 15:51:03 ends up being different packages 15:51:04 I have been unable to reclaim disks in anaconda if the external usb HD install is the same as the USB boot.....get naming conflicts error 15:51:33 have to reformat usb HD extrnally first 15:51:44 kparal: i guess my take on it isn't strongly in either direction 15:52:17 kparal: i think the amount of testing in my proposal unmodified isn't really that crazy, if we're only entirely guaranteeing it for Final (that was my intent, though I guess I didn't entirely mention it) 15:52:38 If decouple, I'd say rename "boot" to "startup" and define startup as "arrives at multi-user.target" 15:52:45 on the other hand, i do understand where you're coming from in trying to cut it down and i don't think any of your ideas is wrong or particularly dangerous 15:52:51 I didn't understand it's just for Final 15:53:06 kparal: it's hard to express with wiki tables :/ 15:53:10 yeah 15:53:29 but i was kinda figuring we'd do our best to at least get a sampling of coverage for alpha/beta, but really do *all* the tests for final 15:54:08 I was thinking this mornign it'd be neat if each matrix item were something like Bodhi's karma page, list the test cases for that matrix, tick off the boxes add a comment and the matrix gets autofilled 15:54:20 the problem is that we need to repeat all of those for every RC, which gets time consuming very quickly 15:54:22 editing the wiki isn't super painful by anymeans but it is slow 15:54:29 kparal: fair point 15:54:51 cmurf: well, that's basically the 'new release validation tool' plan i was talking about last week. 15:54:57 yes i know 15:55:04 kparal: believe me i don't love doing this testing either :P 15:55:15 I'd rather try to consolidate as much as we dare, and explode that into suboptions if we hit an issue 15:55:15 yeah I'm bored with it myself haha 15:55:26 that way we can spend more time on exploratory testing or building automation 15:55:37 kparal: i'm just a bit paranoid about us shipping something that flat out doesn't work, i'd hate for that to happen at any point 15:55:47 really thankful for all the openqa work 15:56:21 adamw: but do you understand we've been doing that all the time? :-) 15:56:31 heh 15:56:35 fwiw mattdm just replied to the thread under discussion 15:56:42 make optical media go away in the next couple releases 15:57:04 bold! 15:57:07 If that's true, it means we could dump the whole isohybrid thing 15:57:23 the funky iso9660 + three way partitioned hob goblin 15:57:32 which is pure genius but it's still a goblin 15:58:50 alrighty 15:58:54 welp, we're nearing the end of the timeslot 15:59:02 damn that was fast 15:59:03 a kickaround was all i wanted on this topic, so thanks for the thoughts :) 15:59:07 we'll continue it on the list i guess 15:59:17 #info we'll continue this discussion on the list thread, thanks for the thoughts everyone 15:59:19 #topic Open floor 15:59:23 any open floor business? 16:00:23 * adamw sets the fuse 16:00:25 Yeah, the HoF nightly testing deal. 16:00:48 HOF? 16:00:58 oh, right 16:01:02 good call 16:01:28 I'll make mention that some of the information reported on the Heroes of Fedora blogposts for F24 Alpha, Beta, and Final, as well as F25 Alpha was erroneous. 16:01:42 juliuxpigface pointed out (private mail to me and coremodule) that the F24 'Hall of Fame' validation testing numbers were not as expected 16:02:02 I *knew* I was supposed to be on the top of that list! 16:02:08 cmurf: :P 16:02:10 Particularly it was lacking the nightly-validation test stats. 16:02:13 that have to be collected immediatelly after the testing period. if they are collected later, they're off 16:02:14 Haha 16:02:14 it basically comes down to how we tweaked the validation test cycle with F24, so there are nightly validation events throughout the cycle and far fewer TCs / RCs 16:02:24 kparal: nah, it's not that 16:02:48 the way the user-stats code worked if you asked for the '24 Alpha' numbers it only considers pages with '24' and 'Alpha' in the names 16:03:08 so it did not include nightly events that were within the Alpha timeframe 16:03:11 ditto Beta and Final 16:03:30 so the numbers were only including the validation events for 'candidate' composes, the ones like Beta-1.2 and RC-1.3 and so on...it wasn't including any of the nightly events at all 16:03:36 I see 16:03:57 for F23 and earlier this wasn't really an issue as we only did nightlies before Alpha TC1, so for F23's blog posts I just added one table for the pre-Alpha nightlies 16:04:26 but we can't do that any more for F24+ because we have nightly events throughout the cycle now. so i tweaked relval so you can give it just a release number and a date range, now, and it'll consider all events for that release in that date range 16:04:37 adamw++ 16:04:38 that should let coremodule re-do the blog posts better 16:04:40 kparal++ 16:05:15 wth am I out of cookies to give? 16:05:18 so as coremodule said...expected revised/updated numbers soon :) 16:05:23 I've emailed jflory7 about getting the published blogposts amended and will make sure that all of the future posts use the new relval. 16:05:28 cmurf: you can cookie any person only once per cycle iirc 16:05:40 I didn't know 16:06:04 Yes! And expect a HoF post on F25 Beta to be submitted for publishing sometime today or tomorrow. 16:06:27 this will mean that you can't really compare the numbers sensibly between <24 and >=24 releases 16:06:33 adamw: that puts a serious damper on my most recent conspiracy plans 16:06:43 but we can at least acknowledge people properly :) 16:07:40 #info there were some issues with the Fedora 24 and 25 'Hall of Fame' blog post statistics, coremodule will be revising those soon 16:07:47 alrighty, any other open floor business? 16:09:09 change Beta to Final, and ship it? 16:09:17 +1 16:09:19 haha 16:09:21 SS SHIPIT 16:09:25 yes! 16:09:28 * adamw sets the fuse again 16:10:41 thanks for coming, folks 16:10:43 #endmeeting