The google plus account has not been updated since fedora 17's release. We should do something about it. Also it looks bland.
Regards, Arnav Kalra 104, Sector 14 Karnal - 132001 Mobile - +91 9896961018 Home - +91 184 4030104 On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Arnav Kalra <[email protected]>wrote: > I have a netbook which i can use for this purpose. How can i help? > > Regards, > Arnav Kalra > 104, Sector 14 > Karnal - 132001 > Mobile - +91 9896961018 > Home - +91 184 4030104 > > > > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Jiri Eischmann <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Arnav Kalra píše v Po 20. 08. 2012 v 22:28 +0530: >> > Maybe we should release virtualbox/vmware images so that people can >> > easily test fedora. Is fedora on Google plus? If yes then we can >> > schedule events on Google plus and send invites. >> >> The problem is that many test days require testing on bare metal, >> they're usually the most important ones (power management, graphics >> drivers,...). But it might be useful for others. >> Fedora is on G+, but I have no idea who is in charge of the account. >> >> Jiri >> >> > On Aug 20, 2012 8:21 PM, "Jiri Eischmann" <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > Robyn Bergeron píše v Pá 17. 08. 2012 v 12:13 -0700: >> > > Hey, >> > > >> > > So, I was just hanging out in the weekly kernel meeting on >> > IRC, and >> > > asked how their virtual fad for kernel regression testing >> > went, and >> > > heard that they had incredibly low turnout, and it was also >> > noted that >> > > test days in general kind of have low or less than we'd like >> > to have >> > > turnout. Which seems like something we can help with, in a >> > few ways: >> > > >> > > #1: Work with the QA team to help them figure out how to get >> > information >> > > to us so that we can get it out to various channels - >> > twitter, facebook, >> > > etc. - and what information we'd need and when. >> > > >> > > A lot of times, it seems like testing might sound >> > daunting/"not for me" >> > > when in reality, it might be easy or take 5 minutes or etc. >> > So maybe >> > > things we could ask for would be... >> > > >> > > * How long does this take? >> > > * Is this "easy", "hard," ... what skills do you need? >> > > * Is this a "you just need a USB key and a way to download" >> > or is this >> > > potentially going to destroy your system? >> > > >> > > For the kernel regression virtual fad - which wasn't really >> > a test day - >> > > as an example, it's (a) got the word "kernel" in it, which I >> > think >> > > automatically makes a lot of people say "uhoh, not for me," >> > even though >> > > there may have been ways for them to participate. >> > > >> > > Anyway: it seems like something we could add value to - just >> > with >> > > something like, "Send us your info a week in advance, we'll >> > work up some >> > > tweets or content and help drive folks back to you." >> > > >> > > #2: See if there are additional things we could produce that >> > can help >> > > people get acquainted with the idea or process of testing. >> > > >> > > Maybe a video how-to? Not really sure here what would be >> > valuable - >> > > would be something to reach out to the QA folks about. >> > > >> > > #3: Josh Boyer added in the kernel meeting that it would be >> > cool to just >> > > have a "Boot the rawhide kernel today. Does it work? Tell us >> > why or why >> > > not" type of thing - I don' tknow if that would be targeted >> > as a once a >> > > week type thing, or what. Maybe this would be an interesting >> > thing to >> > > tackle - how can we help them make this sound less >> > daunting/more >> > > friendly, get the word out, and have fun with it? Maybe a >> > quick >> > > screencast of how to walk through this type of thing from >> > start to finish? >> > > >> > > Thoughts, comments? Anyone willing to reach out to either QA >> > or the >> > > kernel folks to pick their brains on this one? >> > >> > I've been thinking about how to improve test days promotion >> > for some >> > time. A few thoughts: >> > >> > If we want to have more people testing Fedora we need to have >> > appropriate infrastructure first. Frankly, wiki is not >> > scalable for >> > receiving test results. It's OK if you have 10-15 participants >> > throughout the day, but it's PIA if you have more. There were >> > about 40 >> > people participating in the power management test day and they >> > had >> > serious problems to submit results (conflicts all the time). >> > Not >> > mentioned that for some people, editing wiki is not very >> > friendly. I >> > spoke about this with the QA guys so much that they started >> > working on >> > some submitting system, but it's just at the beginning and >> > doesn't have >> > a high priority for them. >> > >> > Real (not online) events might be worth exploring. We did it >> > for the F17 >> > power management test day during our office's open house. It >> > was by far >> > the most attended test day and people were enjoying testing >> > Fedora >> > together and with people that have the best insight in to the >> > area (our >> > power management engineers in this case). >> > >> > We have to talk about them more. People that represent Fedora >> > should >> > blog about it, talk about it at conferences, post >> > announcements at >> > national community sites etc. If I and Jaroslav Reznik attend >> > a general >> > Linux conference in our region we propose a talk "How To >> > Contribute to >> > Fedora Project" and it's mostly about test days because >> > testing is an >> > entry level contribution everyone can do. We go through test >> > cases with >> > people and show them it's actually quite easy to take part in >> > test days. >> > And we tell them that testing prior to the final release is >> > very >> > important. >> > >> > Red Hat opened an intern position in Brno office for someone >> > who would >> > coordinate test days promotion. Unfortunately, they haven't >> > yet found a >> > good fit, a student who is a Fedora enthusiast and interested >> > in >> > testing. >> > >> > Jiri >> > >> > >> > -- >> > marketing mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing >> >> >> -- >> marketing mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing >> > >
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