On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 11:29 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> c) make the test cases as automated as possible. Offer sending
smolt
> profile (smoltGUI) and run test cases directly from the desktop.
Also We
> should add a link (or the document itself) about how to test what
and
> why to the desktop. If it's possible for the test generated results
> should also be posted automagically to the results page, or, if
tests
> fail, bug reports could be created by bugbuddy.
Not sure if bugbuddy adds any heft to the Live images. Regardless
though, I actually was talking to James Laska about this just the
other day. The easier the community uptake, the more people can dive
in and get involved.
I've found the Live images really helped me. I don't tend to have a
lot of time to devote to testing, yet I was able to successfully
run some tests and generate a few bug reports for the Nouveau test
day. It was a great experience and I'd like as many other people to
enjoy it as possible.
Paul and I exchanged some good ideas here. Thanks to the livecd-tools
[1] and spin-kickstarts [2] projects, the creation of Test Day live
images isn't tremendously difficult.
My apologies for not recalling the name, but a fellow tester posted a
comment in fedora planet recently suggesting this very idea ... that the
live image come with some pointers or instructions for the current test
day. This is a great idea.
I'd like to not have to constantly edit the kickstart file used to
generate the live image. Can folks think of a good way so that with a
little shell/python/$lang we can use the same kickstart file to produce
a live image that has ...
* the Test Day starts as the firefox homepage
* Or ... the firefox home page finds the most *current* test day
* Create a .desktop file when clicked, "Join Test Day IRC
discussion"
* I know it's a live image, but should we enable kexec/kdump to
easily capture kernel panics?
What do folks think?
Thanks,
James
[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD
[2]
https://fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts/