Martin, I am cc'ing this to the FWN and Website list as I think this is a great opportunity to get more community testing and input in.
There is some discussion about a few more FWN releases as we get ready to open up fedoramagazine.org. The testing requests should be fine to go out in pretty quick order. Cheers Bryan On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 17:31 -0400, Martin Holec wrote: > Hi, > > I want to open discussion on how to improve marketing for Fedora Test Days > and pre-release testing in general. > > Few thoughts: > * I heard about FWN revival. Can we provide some content to support Test Days > or regular announcements are enough? > * How to promote Test Days on fedoraproject.org website? > > Best Regards, > > Martin Holec > Desktop QE, Red Hat Brno > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Holec" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], "For testing and quality assurance > of Fedora releases" <[email protected]>, > [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:16:46 PM > Subject: [Call to Arms] Fedora 19 Test Days starts this week > > Hi Fedora users, developers and friends! > > today Fedora 19 was branched from Rawhide. That means testing season begins > now and will continue till Fedora 19 Final Release, which may be (or may not > be) on 2013-06-25. Please, fasten your seatbelts, fire up your virtual or > baremetal machines and enjoy this crash testing ride with us. > > Remember: https://is0.4sqi.net/userpix/D1Y3XKHJVN4GIMRW.jpg > > Before Alpha will (or won't) be ready on 2013-04-16, we have prepared some > Test Days[0] for you. Starting this Thursday with KDE 4.10 [1] with one major > innovation. You are invited to try how new KDE 4.10 [2] stuff not only using > Fedora 19 Live test images, but also from updates-testing repository on your > current Fedora stable installation, including both Fedora 18 and Fedora 17 > releases. For first time, you can test new version of whole KDE platform > before it rolls up and in as an stable update for your Fedora! > > [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_19_test_days > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-03-14_KDE_4.10 > [2] http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.10/ > > Well, you may already know about and use Bodhi[3] with karma voting process. > But Test Day provides an opportunity to actually talk to developers before > KDE 4.10 reaches stable updates and interactively report, explore, debug and > fix your issues (or at least find workarounds for the time being). Together > we can make this update less painful for everyday Fedora KDE users. > > [3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ > > Join IRC #fedora-test-day on FreeNode and ask QA or developers for help, if > you get into trouble. We can try to find workarounds and help you with > debugging. Please report all bugs under appropriate component preferably at > upstream bugzilla https://bugs.kde.org/ regarding common KDE 4.10 issues or > Red Hat bugzilla http://bugzilla.redhat.com/ if you have problems with Fedora > distribution integration. You can also report other Fedora bugs not related > to this Test Day. Feel free to ask on IRC, if you don't know against which > component or on what bugzilla you should fill the report. > > See you in Bugzilla! > > Best Regards, > > Martin Holec > Desktop QE, Red Hat Brno > > Freenode nick: Martix > Your self-appointed Fedora 19 Test Day Wrangler. > -- > marketing mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing -- websites mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
