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Report: GSoC Mentor Summit 2018

November 26, 2018 / sumantrom / 1 Comment

Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit Report

In mid-October Sumantro Mukherjee and Martin Bříza attended the Mentor Summit for this year’s Google Summer of Code in Sunnyvale, California, USA. Besides talking about the hard points of the program, its future direction and ways how to improve the participation in it, it’s a great place to discover many interesting open source software (and even hardware!) projects. And most importantly, you get to meet the people who stand behind those projects. Continue reading

Kernel 4.19 Test Day 2018-10-25

Thursday, 2018-10-25 is the Kernel 4.19 Test Day!

Why Test Kernel?

The kernel team is working on final integration for Kernel 4.19. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora. Continue reading

Modularity Test Day 2018-10-12

October 11, 2018 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

Friday, 2018-10-12 is the Fedora 29 Modularity Test Day!
We need your help to test if everything runs smoothly! Continue reading

Fedora 29 Upgrade Test Day 2018-10-08

October 7, 2018 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

Monday, 2018-10-08, is the Fedora 29 Upgrade Test Day!
As part of this planned change for Fedora 29, we need your help to test if everything runs smoothly! Continue reading

Fedora 29 Gnome 3.30 Test Day 2018-10-05

October 3, 2018 / sumantrom / 6 Comments

Friday, 2018-10-05 is the Fedora 29 Gnome 3.30Test Day! As part of changes Gnome 3.30 in Fedora 29, we need your help to test if everything runs smoothly!

Why Gnome Test Day?

We try to make sure that all the gnome features are performing as they should. So it’s to see whether it’s working well enough and catch any remaining issues.
It’s also pretty easy to join in: all you’ll need is Fedora 29(which you can grab from the wiki page). Continue reading

DNF 3.5 Test Day 2018-10-03

October 2, 2018 / sumantrom / 1 Comment

Wednusday, 2018-10-03, is the DNF 3.5 Test Day!
DNF 3.5 has a support for modularity and this test day is vital to test and catch bugs and any performance issues.

Why test DNF 3.5?

This instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on testing:

Feedback on modularity
Serious regressions to YUM v3
User experience issues (inconsistencies, awkward behavior)
Any performance issues

Fedora 29 Atomic and Cloud Test Day 2018-10-01

September 27, 2018 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

Why test Atomic and Cloud

Fedora 29 Atomic and Cloud provides latest version of packages from Fedora 29.
Both Fedora Cloud Base and Atomic Host provide the latest available versions of packages in Fedora 29 containing all features and bug fixes done in individual packages like the kernel, cockpit and more. Additionally, Fedora Atomic Host includes the latest version of podman, which provides the ability to use OCI containers and runc.

Test Day: Java 8,10,11

September 25, 2018 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

Why test Java

Test Day will focus on OpenJDK 11 and OpenJDK 10. Currently, we have java-1.8.0-openjdk as main JDK in Fedora. It accompanied java-1.7.0-openjdk as JRE for a year, and replaced it in buildroot in F21. Similarly, as did java-1.7.0-openjdk to java-1.6.0-openjdk in F16 as parallel JRE and replaced it in F17 in build root and main JDK. However, today the situation is more complicated. Oracle changed release process, see OpenJDK 11 summary and OpenJDK 10 summary, so currently, in F27 and up, you have java-1.8.0-openjdk as main JDK, java-openjdk as rolling release of STS JDK 10, and java-11-openjdk as techpreview of future LTS JDK. Javaws is provided in another package – icedtea-web

When

On September 26 2018, Java folks and Fedora QA are holding a Test Day for users to try out and test this new Fedora Workstation variant.

Where

The wiki page for the Java Test Day has a lot of good information on what and how to test. After you’ve done some testing, you can log your results in the test day result page

Details are available on the wiki page. We need your help, please share this post with others.

Test Day: Virtualization 2018-09-11

September 9, 2018 / sumantrom / Comments Off

Tuesday, 2018-09-11, is the Virtualization Test Day! We need your help to test! Continue reading

Test Days: Internationalization (i18n) features for Fedora 29

September 2, 2018 / sumantrom / Comments Off

All this week, we will be testing for i18n features in Fedora 29. Those are as follows:

Liberation Fonts 2 – Liberation 2.00.3 has wider character coverage and automated hinting instructions.
CJK Default To Noto Fonts –This change will provides better quality of rendering for all of Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters. We will now have default installed Serif face for Japanese and Korean, and also a Monospace face for all of CJK languages and keep consistencies in look among those typefaces.
IBUS 1.5.19 – Now users can type either emoji annotation or Unicode names on the current application and see the composing text before the final committed text is output.