Re: Self-introduction: TheEvilSkeleton

On 29/03/2021 02:24, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 12:15:13 -0400, TheEvilSkeleton wrote: My alias is TheEvilSkeleton, but you can also call me Tesk, TheEvilSkely, Skelly, Proprietary Chrome-chan or anything close to it. May I ask for your real name? Where does this come from th

Re: so.... how solid is the f34 branch at branch time?

On 13/02/2021 14:02, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2021-02-10 at 11:30 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: Last few releases, I've aggressively updated my systems to the branch very shortly after branching, and I have (mostly) not regretted it. If I do that with F34 this week... how's it looking? Wel

Re: [fedora-qa] Issue #569: Proposal to redefine core applications.

On 10/11/2018 05:09, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: [...] I think for just the Workstation testing I do myself I will continue with my "over testing" approach where I "try out" all of the graphical app's that anaconda installs. and file bugs (not nominated) for issues I fine. That's wonderful

Re: Fwd: [fedora-qa] Issue #569: Proposal to redefine core applications.

On 07/11/2018 23:33, Lukas Ruzicka wrote: Hello Fedora QA and friends, I would like to propose a change of what we define as core applications because I feel that how it is done today is not sufficient. Let me explain. ## How it works today? The *core applications* are defined in this testc

Re: vncserver for non-gnome desktops

On 07/09/2018 01:24, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I am working with Fedora29 on arm, but this is really a long time issue that needs to be addressed. The ~/.vnc/xstartup file created by vncserver is for gnome.  It does not work for other desktop environments. There is no documentation (that I hav

Re: GNOME 3.30.0 megaupdate

On 06/09/2018 04:45, Parag Nemade wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 8:49 PM, Stephen Gallagher > wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 11:12 AM Kalev Lember mailto:kalevlem...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi all, As many of you know, I've been gone half the s

Re: Introduction

On 20/02/18 06:57, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: Hi! My credentials are in electrical engineering and just before I retired (almost three year ago) I was reading through the Intel spec's on the latest chip sets ; as I needed to understand physical data flow bottlenecks. From early childhood I

Re: Self Introduction

On 29/11/17 09:02, Luke Van Dervoort wrote: AH, I see, a Post Nazi. Bugger off On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Sumantro Mukherjee mailto:sumuk...@redhat.com>> wrote: - Original Message - > From: "Luke Van Dervoort" mailto:vanluk...@gmail.com>> > To: "For testing and qu

Re: Firefox launching maximize

On 23/06/17 03:17, Lawrence E Graves wrote: On 06/22/2017 12:47 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/22/17 11:44, Lawrence E Graves wrote: Is there anyone experiencing this problem. I am running Fedora 26 Beta and every time I launch firefox, it launches full screen. Is there a way to stop this or is

Re: Self-introduction: Jack Winch (jwinch)

On 26/09/16 04:18, Jack Winch wrote: Hi All, My name is Jack and I'm an 18 year old applications engineer, based in the UK. I have worked for Rolls-Royce plc for two years now and they are sponsoring me through my education as an electrical and electronics engineer (later forking me off into s

Re: [Fedora Rawhide Test]Cannot Remap my keyboard layout

On 25/09/16 14:31, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2016-09-24 at 18:55 -0500, Bowen Wang wrote: Thanks! I am currently working on learning xkb. I will post my way if it can work. I know the Rawhide is not very stable, but it provides the cutting-edge features and software. There is another issue

Re: Idea for graduation project

On 16/07/16 08:08, Claudiu Dorin wrote: Could you be more specific? What are you studying, what are the requirements for the project... I did a simple inventory system with PHP & MySQL recently for the same purpose. On Jul 14, 2016 6:47 PM, "Mohammed Tayeh"

Re: [Test-Announce] 2016-06-27 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

On 29/06/16 06:40, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 02:24 -0400, Sumantro Mukherjee wrote: Hey Dev you can catch the logs here https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora- meeting/2016-06-27/fedora-qa.2016-06-27-15.00.html Yep, and I'll send it to the list soon - sorry, that just hap

Re: Congratulations for F24ß

On 12/05/16 09:46, Fred Smith wrote: On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 08:33:56AM +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: On 12/05/16 08:26, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Qua, 2016-05-11 at 14:41 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 07:26:41PM +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Qua, 2016-05-11 at 09:13 -0700

Re: Congratulations for F24ß

On 12/05/16 08:26, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Qua, 2016-05-11 at 14:41 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 07:26:41PM +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Qua, 2016-05-11 at 09:13 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 05/11/2016 08:01 AM, Peter G. wrote: How do you type the Greek beta from the k

Re: Self-Introduction: Drew Meigs

On 26/04/16 09:49, Drew Meigs wrote: Hi, everyone. I wanted to take a second to say hello to everyone. I am new to Fedora, but I have been using Linux for about eight years (mostly Debian-based systems up until recently). I have just started using Fedora 24 Alpha in an attempt to test it

Re: Self-introduction: Devon Bundy

On 17/11/15 07:45, Devon Bundy wrote: Hello world! My name is Devon Bundy and I'd like to introduce myself. I have been working in the proprietary field for years in PHP and MySQL as a DBA. I have only recently gotten more involved in Open-source, I used Debian for many years primarily but ha

Re: Self Introduction: Ricky Grassmuck

See my answer at the bottom of this email. On 14/11/15 06:14, Ricky Grassmuck wrote: Thanks for pointing those emails out, it's exactly what i was looking for! Those emails were getting lost in the mix so I created a bundle in gmail just for those so I can keep up with them separately. I thin

Re: Newbie in FedoraProject team

On 28/10/15 22:11, Alexander Kolesnikov wrote: Hi all! My name is Alexander Kolesnikov, I am from St. Petersburg, Russia. I use Linux about 6 years: 4 years as system administrator of RedHat and CentOS and last two years Fedora is primary home OS. I have backgroud in system administration and

Re: problems with redhat bugzilla?

On 03/10/15 01:23, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Sex, 2015-10-02 at 12:37 +0200, Karel Volný wrote: Maybe my assumption was not totally correct but now bugzilla says: The password must contain at least one: letter special character digit and 8 characters minimum length if Bugzilla en

Re: Rawhide plans

On 20/08/15 03:52, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: [...] I think everyone also agreed that the pain points were around getting a rawhide install in the first place: 1. boot/netinstall iso is often broken or not produced. Live media likewise. 2. Upgradin

Re: Alpha Criterion Discussion: Desktop Backgrounds

On 08/08/15 03:06, Kevin Fenzi wrote: [...] I don't even think the desktop background is all that visible anymore, especially on some desktops (like workstation/gnome). People there tend to use full screen apps and never even see the wallpaper. That also seems like a pretty poor way to tell wha

Re: Alpha Criterion Discussion: Desktop Backgrounds

On 08/08/15 05:42, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 10:22:56AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: What I *can't* find is any reference for the justification usually cited for the criterion. Several times we mention that there was an actual case where people downloaded an Alpha or Beta th

Re: Live media changes systemtime to UTC

On 30/05/15 04:59, Joerg Lechner wrote: Hi, I add this comment about F22 here, even when F22 is now distributed as final, because I think this problem will also occur in F23. When I load the F22 Final Live Medium (Workstation x86_64) via USB stick to the laptop the system time is permanently ch

Re: Shutdown after updates?

On 29/04/15 02:41, Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 04:38:00PM +0200, Łukasz Posadowski wrote: Another strange issue with F22. I bootet and the offline update procedure started (without me having started it knowingly). When done, it said it would shutdown after updates, and it reall

Re: Self-Introduction: Giulio (juliuxpigface)

On 25/03/15 07:01, Giulio 'JuLiuX' wrote: Hi guys My real name is Giulio, I'm 22 and I'm from Trento (Italy). I have been using Fedora since 2010 and I'd like to join the Fedora-QA team. Let's spend SOME words about me, hehe... My main hobby is... Well, testing new releases! I've been keeping a

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 22 Alpha Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Available Now!

On 08/03/15 08:10, Gavin Flower wrote: On 08/03/15 07:56, Joerg Lechner wrote: I don't know how to express correctly in computer English. As I used YUM previously from Fxx to F21, for installation of YUM I went to the software tool in Gnome, put into the search line "yum" an

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 22 Alpha Release Candidate 3 (RC3) Available Now!

On 08/03/15 07:56, Joerg Lechner wrote: I don't know how to express correctly in computer English. As I used YUM previously from Fxx to F21, for installation of YUM I went to the software tool in Gnome, put into the search line "yum" and then install. Afterwards there was an icon "YUM" amongst

Re: gtk i686 boot.iso bug in TC5

On 27/02/15 09:48, Adam Williamson wrote: [...] TC5/TC6 because of the product.img bug. I love whack-a-mole :P [...] On the part of moles everywhere, who must remain anonymous for security reasons, I must protest your cavalier disregard for their well being by your encouragement to people to

Re: Self Introduction: Atmn Patel

On 29/12/14 17:04, Atmn Patel wrote: I'm sure I will learn a lot during my contribution here. I feel very much welcome in this community. -- Atmn Patel On 28 December 2014 at 22:41, Lili Nie > wrote: - Original Message - > From: "Atmn Patel" mailto:at

Re: Self Introduction: Atmn Patel

On 29/12/14 10:51, Atmn Patel wrote: Hello all, My name is Atmn Patel. I am a high school student in a small town near Windsor, ON, Canada. I am technically in grade 10, but I'm looking at a very early graduation. I was going to apply to the University of Toronto this year, but didn't because

Re: sometimes things I tell in this forum are my faults

On 19/12/14 03:18, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 06:20 -0500, Joerg Lechner wrote: Hi, Can I tell something about me? My name is Joerg Lechner, I am living in southern Germany. I am a pensioneer. For about 30 years I was designing, programming and testing SW in the telecommunicati

Re: No print setup in Xfce desktop!!

On 22/11/14 10:18, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 03:54 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: A fedora desktop that can't configure printing? That would seem to be a major blocker. Nothing to do with Xfce is a 'blocker'. Xfce is not a release-blocking desktop. Hmm... I used to us

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 21 Beta!

On 06/11/14 03:57, Matthew Miller wrote: On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 07:26:55AM -0500, Joerg Lechner wrote: what is confusing is that F21-Final-TC1 has 1.4GB and the download link for prerelease says: "Download now! 1.4GB, ISO format image for 64bit-compatible PC" Therefore I don't know, the "1.3GB

Re: Self-introduction: Michal

On 25/10/14 05:28, Michał Bajer wrote: Hello guys My name is Michal, I'm from Poland and I'd love to join your QA team and stay here for a while :) I am a 2nd year undergraduate student (computer science) and, to be honest, I don't know much about software testing, but I really want to learn.

Re: 2014-10-06 @ 15:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting - Minutes

On 07/10/14 14:46, Adam Williamson wrote: == #fedora-meeting: Fedora QA meeting == [...] * work continues on disposable test clients, but it's still at an early stage (adamw, 15:54:04) [...] Isn't deposing of clients ag

Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 21 Alpha Test Compose 6 (TC6) Available Now!

On 07/09/14 19:13, drago01 wrote: On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 14:56 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: On 09/05/2014 01:03 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: As per the Fedora 21 schedule [1], Fedora 21 Alpha Test Compose 6 (TC6) is now available for testing

Re: It is all about Adam!!

On 24/08/14 05:16, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Amita Sharma wrote: http://fedoramagazine.org/edora-qa-adam-williamson/ Good work. Could we add a redirect to fedora-qa instead of edora-qa? Rahul I don't think that we really want to associate Adam with the

Re: Nasty Habits in Replying to Emails

On 28/04/14 20:42, Karel Volný wrote: [...] - thanks Gavin for adding something that I forgot about ... but I doubt that testing Fedora is a good therapy for mentally ill (who suffered heavy abuse); and as for the rest, changing the (percepted) gender seems quite common to me but I'm not aware

Re: Nasty Habits in Replying to Emails

On 28/04/14 19:13, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 11:11 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: On 28/04/14 03:53, Scott Robbins wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 05:04:09PM +0200, Karel Volný wrote: Dne pátek, 25. dubna 2014 23:37:43 CEST, Adam Williamson napsal(a): In addition to what other

Re: Here we go again

On 28/04/14 13:50, poma wrote: People are generally born with more ears than teeth, Mister Freud. poma What I said is based on observations and scientific research. I spent 3 years talking with a group of people, which included people with multiple personalities. There is actually a contin

Re: Nasty Habits in Replying to Emails

On 28/04/14 08:59, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 16:59 -0400, Mickey wrote: [...] I suggest you also read those guidlines about TOP Posting. My apologies. As one who rails against top-posting I'm embarrassed to be caught doing it. IIRC I used a non-Evo mailer to reply and wa

Re: Nasty Habits in Replying to Emails

On 28/04/14 03:53, Scott Robbins wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 05:04:09PM +0200, Karel Volný wrote: Dne pátek, 25. dubna 2014 23:37:43 CEST, Adam Williamson napsal(a): In addition to what other people have said, there are people of more than one gender reading this list...please be respectful

Re: any report of fedup f19->f20?

On 20/12/13 12:50, Gavin Flower wrote: On 20/12/13 12:51, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 12:44 +1300, Gavin Flower wrote: Can there be anything more important than the correct way to make tea??? Sure - vim versus emacs! Possibly a close second... Then again, some people might

Re: any report of fedup f19->f20?

On 20/12/13 12:51, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 12:44 +1300, Gavin Flower wrote: Can there be anything more important than the correct way to make tea??? Sure - vim versus emacs! Possibly a close second... -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: any report of fedup f19->f20?

-20 at 10:39 +1300, Gavin Flower wrote: > On 20/12/13 06:38, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 05:08 -0500, Temlakos wrote: > [...] > > long time. It wasn't frozen. The update ran well last time. But I > > probably would ru

Re: any report of fedup f19->f20?

On 20/12/13 12:21, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 10:39 +1300, Gavin Flower wrote: On 20/12/13 06:38, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 05:08 -0500, Temlakos wrote: [...] long time. It wasn't frozen. The update ran well last time. But I probably would run it w

Re: any report of fedup f19->f20?

On 20/12/13 06:38, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 05:08 -0500, Temlakos wrote: [...] long time. It wasn't frozen. The update ran well last time. But I probably would run it when I had to be away from it anyway. You see, in America we have a saying: "A watched teapot never boils."

Re: xfce does not remember saved sessions on Fedora 20

On 17/12/13 22:46, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 12/16/2013 11:38 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: I'm still scratching my head over the other applications not saving/restoring correctly, Well, some of these obviously are Gnome3 regressions: Next bug filed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=104381

Re: Criterion revision proposal: KDE default applications

On 15/12/13 17:41, Adam Williamson wrote: On Sat, 2013-12-14 at 22:27 -0500, Richard Ryniker wrote: Has Fedora QA discussed how much effort they should or can invest in organization and facilitation of others' test activities? Direct testing scales (approximately) linearly with number of peopl

Re: Criterion revision proposal: KDE default applications

On 14/12/13 12:49, Rahul Sundaram wrote: Hi On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Well, then there's the problem. We can't have release criteria that say "we really stand behind the package sets installed from the DVD" if we don't. That is true however the

Re: TC5 at Caddyshack

On 06/12/13 13:36, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: [...] What happened to the penguins during boot-up? I miss them. [...] We MUST have our penguins, or at least one! :-) Cheers, Gavin -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/lis

Re: Joining Fedora QA

On 05/12/13 06:55, Barneedhar wrote: Hi guys, My name is Barneedhar, an undergrad student living in Chennai, India. I have been using Fedora for the past couple of months and have been wanting to contribute back to the community. So, I thought I might put my hands for some QA work. I have been

Re: maintaining minimal

On 29/09/13 14:47, Adam Williamson wrote: [...] Soft deps could help with this, but the Fedora package management folks have been opposed to them for a long time. They have some valid reasons; personally I'm pro-soft deps, but it doesn't look like it'll happen soon. Maybe we should have semi-

Re: A different way of installing Fedora

On 29/09/13 14:37, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 20:49 -0500, dkrawchuk wrote: I agree. I find these digressions interesting and informative. I suppose it's just me, then! Life would not be worth living, if we all had exactly the same interests! :-) Viva la difference! Che

Re: A different way of installing Fedora

On 29/09/13 10:10, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On 28 September 2013 08:39, Clyde E. Kunkel mailto:clydekunkel7...@verizon.net>> wrote: On 09/27/2013 09:53 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:49:51PM -0500, dkrawchuk wrote: I agree. I find these di

Re: A different way of installing Fedora

On 28/09/13 13:53, Matthew Miller wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 08:49:51PM -0500, dkrawchuk wrote: I agree. I find these digressions interesting and informative. They _really do_ keep coming up. What if we create a Fedora Old-Timers list for this kind of discussion? I'm not even kidding -- I'

Re: A different way of installing Fedora

On 28/09/13 05:18, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote: On 09/27/2013 01:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2013-09-27 at 22:06 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: I do find the 'who's been using computers longer?' competitions that seem to be ensuing on all sorts of lists lately a bit tir

Re: A different way of installing Fedora

On 27/09/13 19:02, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 16:23 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: On 26/09/13 15:53, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 09/25/2013 06:13 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: My concern is wether this procedure results in a kernel that is less optimized for the CPU it is running

Re: MATE Desktop

On 27/09/13 05:11, Marcus Leech wrote: I'm running MATE on F18, and find it is more pleasant than any of the Gnome 3 things. on Sep 26, 2013, *Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX* wrote: For those of use who were relatively happy with Gnome 2 and not quite satisfied with some of the alternatives, I

Re: A different way of installing Fedora

On 26/09/13 15:53, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 09/25/2013 06:13 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: My concern is wether this procedure results in a kernel that is less optimized for the CPU it is running on than if Fedora had been installed directly on that machine. I don't know enough about Fedora ins

Re: A different way of installing Fedora

On 26/09/13 13:26, David wrote: On 9/25/2013 9:13 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: On 09/25/2013 05:45 PM, David wrote: On 9/25/2013 7:19 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: Several of my machies have SATA hot swap ports. These make it easy to use smaller drives as backup media. When RC4 came ou

Re: F20 anaconda progress bar

On 12/09/13 05:54, Richard Ryniker wrote: On my last installation (TC4) anaconda's blue progress bar stalled at approximately 40% while thousands of packages were installed. I suspect this is "Working as Designed". There is a continuing display of package names as they are installed, as well as

Re: systemd depends so heavily on a files it can not reboot

On 09/07/13 20:22, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/08/2013 09:39 AM, John Reiser wrote: 1. Install a userid whose login shell is /usr/bin/sync (or a script which does "sync; sync") 2. Login as the sync user (twice, perhaps.) Running sync multiple times doesn't have any particular purpose on Li

Re: Introduction

On 17/06/13 23:33, José Matos wrote: On Friday 14 June 2013 19:49:43 Justin Reid wrote: Currently my main programming language is Python, however I also know some shell scripting, java and even the legacy Fortran 90. I'm currently teaching myself C as well and will hopefully be applying that kno

consider people with poor vision, was Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...[consider people with poor vision

On 15/06/13 16:22, Felix Miata wrote: On 2013-06-14 12:53 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: [...] Among the many other complaints other people have raised about the installer, I don't recall one other person complaining about text being too small. Do you think people in the business of de

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

On 14/06/13 12:57, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/14/13 08:28, Gavin Flower wrote: Well, I configured the wireless network prior to get to the installation summary with all the spokes in the previous screen, and it correctly got the assigned host name & IPv4 address. So I asumed the network wa

Re: F19 installer not giving an option for English GB (or UK)

On 14/06/13 11:46, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 11:34 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: On 14/06/13 10:54, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 10:33 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: I actually live in New Zealand, not the US so I would prefer a different language for the desktop

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

On 14/06/13 11:08, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/14/13 06:57, Gavin Flower wrote: On 14/06/13 10:43, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 10:23 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: I think it would be a very good idea to be able to systematically check, & change settings if necessary - so some

Re: F19 installer not giving an option for English GB (or UK)

On 14/06/13 10:54, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 10:33 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: I actually live in New Zealand, not the US so I would prefer a different language for the desktop. So since I am used to British spelling. I would like to be able to set the language for the

F19 installer not giving an option for English GB (or UK)

I actually live in New Zealand, not the US so I would prefer a different language for the desktop. So since I am used to British spelling. I would like to be able to set the language for the desktop as English-GB. I think that the above should be remedied in F19. /// Changes that