James Laska wrote:
1. How did you find out about Fedora Test Days?
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2. Was sufficient documentation available to help you participate in
a
Fedora Test Day? If not, what did you find missing or in need of
improvement?
The instructions were sufficient.
3. Did you encounter any obstacles preventing participation in
Fedora
test Days? How might they have been avoided? Did you discover any
workaround?
I found out about the Intel graphics test day too late to be able to
participate on the right day. I first had to create a FAS account as I hadn't
yet taken all the steps to become a packager. I got side-tracked by an
incorrect error message in FAS and had some problems before I could report
that. Then I had to create a Smolt profile. SmoltGUI crashed but I could work
around the crash by changing the locale. Smolt using two kinds of UUIDs
caused some confusion. I could eventually go through the test cases for Intel
graphics a week after the actual test day.
See also the next question:
4. Were you able to locate and download installation media for
testing?
Did it function as expected?
Live CD images were linked from the wiki pages. I had no problems downloading
them. I eventually managed to make a working live USB stick from the one for
the Intel test day, after I transferred it to my work computer where I had
Fedora 10 and could install the latest Syslinux from Rawhide. It wasn't
possible to do this on Fedora 9.
The live USB stick I made from the CD image for the Nvidia test day was more
dead than live. It wouldn't boot, so I couldn't participate in that test day.
5. What follow-up actions do you expect after the Test Day? Are
your
expectations currently being met?
I expected that someone would attempt to fix the bugs I reported. No such
attempts have been mentioned in Bugzilla so far. I suppose I'll se whether
they've been fixed when I upgrade to Fedora 11.
Perhaps there would have been more interest in my reports if I had submitted
them during the actual test day.
6. Would you participate again in future Fedora Test Days?
If they cover some functionality that's particularly important to me or some
less than common hardware that I have.
Björn Persson