Re: Introduction - James Hawkins

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2018-03-07 at 07:53 -0500, James Hawkins wrote:
> I'm still a bit unclear as to how to test certain packages if I'm not
> using anything on my system that requires them. I guess learning the
> requirements of certain packages and what they do will help know what
> to look for and test as I go along.

Ah, yep - unfortunately there's not quite any 'magic trick' to that.
For now I'd advise just skipping packages you can't figure out how to
test and focus on the ones you can.

My usual approach is to figure out what depends on the package (just
fake-trying to remove it can help with this), then find something in
that list that looks like I can actually try it out relatively easy,
try and work out how it uses the dependency (which can be the tricky
part!), and go from there. But it's not always easy, and it's fine to
just skip ones you can't work out a way to test.

Thanks again!
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Re: Introduction - James Hawkins

[James Hawkins]

>Hi James,
>

>Welcome to Fedora QA Team!  So good you always come back, it happens
the same to me.
>Looking forward to see your contributions.

>Regards,
>Silvia
>FAS:  Lailah

Thanks Silvia. I'm happy to be here and looking forward to being a
part of the team and actually contributing something.  I forgot to
mention my FAS is jhawk. 

>Welcome James, thanks for volunteering! I have sponsored your group
 >membership. Do you think there's enough info on the wiki etc. to
help
 >you move forward, or is there anything we could help with further?
 >Thanks!

Hi Adam, I think the wiki is a good start so far for helping me get my
system setup for testing. (Setting the repos, setting up Karma, etc.)
I'm still a bit unclear as to how to test certain packages if I'm not
using anything on my system that requires them. I guess learning the
requirements of certain packages and what they do will help know what
to look for and test as I go along. The wiki is pretty straightforward
for testing pre-releases and I'm moving forward with testing the
Fedora 28 branch. I've also been making it a habit to hang out in the
#fedora-qa (and other Fedora related) IRC chat. You'll find me lurking
there with the username grimhawk.

James


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Re: Introduction - James Hawkins

[Adam Williamson]

On Sat, 2018-03-03 at 17:49 -0500, James Hawkins wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> My name is James. I'm 36 years old and I live in Canada. I've been
> using Fedora full time since Fedora 21. I tend to bounce between GNOME
> and MATE. I've tried other distros but I always come back to Fedora.
> I've wanted to contribute to the Fedora Project for a long time but I
> wasn't really sure what I could do and if I had the skills to do it. I
> took Computer Systems Technology in College, many moons ago, which had
> a focus on computer systems, computer hardware, Linux, Microsoft and
> Cisco networking. I worked for about 2 years in I.T. after I
> graduated. For the last 12 years I've been working outside of the
> industry and my current focus has shifted more towards web design and
> development. (I've also reached out to the website team and hope to
> contribute there as well.) I have a strong love of open source and
> even as a web developer I try to use open source tools to do my job. 
> 
> I've done some basic user testing and reported a few bugs on past
> Fedora releases. I'm interested in helping out in whatever way I can
> to the QA team and learning some new things along they way.
> 
> Looking forward to contributing and meeting some of you from the QA
> team.

Welcome James, thanks for volunteering! I have sponsored your group
membership. Do you think there's enough info on the wiki etc. to help
you move forward, or is there anything we could help with further?
Thanks!
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
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Re: Introduction - James Hawkins

[Silvia Sánchez]

Hi James,

Welcome to Fedora QA Team!  So good you always come back, it happens the
same to me.
Looking forward to see your contributions.

Regards,
Silvia
FAS:  Lailah




On 3 March 2018 at 22:49, James Hawkins  wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> My name is James. I'm 36 years old and I live in Canada. I've been using
> Fedora full time since Fedora 21. I tend to bounce between GNOME and MATE.
> I've tried other distros but I always come back to Fedora. I've wanted to
> contribute to the Fedora Project for a long time but I wasn't really sure
> what I could do and if I had the skills to do it. I took Computer Systems
> Technology in College, many moons ago, which had a focus on computer
> systems, computer hardware, Linux, Microsoft and Cisco networking. I worked
> for about 2 years in I.T. after I graduated. For the last 12 years I've
> been working outside of the industry and my current focus has shifted more
> towards web design and development. (I've also reached out to the website
> team and hope to contribute there as well.) I have a strong love of open
> source and even as a web developer I try to use open source tools to do my
> job.
>
> I've done some basic user testing and reported a few bugs on past Fedora
> releases. I'm interested in helping out in whatever way I can to the QA
> team and learning some new things along they way.
>
> Looking forward to contributing and meeting some of you from the QA team.
>
> *James Hawkins*
>
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Introduction - James Hawkins

[James Hawkins]

Hello everyone,

My name is James. I'm 36 years old and I live in Canada. I've been
using Fedora full time since Fedora 21. I tend to bounce between GNOME
and MATE. I've tried other distros but I always come back to Fedora.
I've wanted to contribute to the Fedora Project for a long time but I
wasn't really sure what I could do and if I had the skills to do it. I
took Computer Systems Technology in College, many moons ago, which had
a focus on computer systems, computer hardware, Linux, Microsoft and
Cisco networking. I worked for about 2 years in I.T. after I
graduated. For the last 12 years I've been working outside of the
industry and my current focus has shifted more towards web design and
development. (I've also reached out to the website team and hope to
contribute there as well.) I have a strong love of open source and
even as a web developer I try to use open source tools to do my job. 

I've done some basic user testing and reported a few bugs on past
Fedora releases. I'm interested in helping out in whatever way I can
to the QA team and learning some new things along they way.

Looking forward to contributing and meeting some of you from the QA
team.

James Hawkins

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