Fedora 28 is out.It’s time for the Ambassadors to plan their activities around the release. The most common activity for Ambassadors to do is organize release parties. A release party is also a great way for other contributors in the community to get involved with advocacy in their local regions. Learn how to organize a release party and get a badge for it in this article. Continue reading
Thursday, 2018-04-19, is the Fedora 28 Upgrade Test Day!
As part of this planned change for Fedora 28, we need your help to test if everything runs smoothly!
As we approach the Final Release date for Fedora 28. Most users will be upgrading to Fedora 28 and this test day will help us understand if everything is
working perfectly. This test day will cover both a Gnome graphical upgrade and an upgrade done using DNF . Continue reading
Monday, 2018-04-16 is the Fedora 28 Anaconda Test Day!
Anaconda will be split into several modules that will communicate over DBus. The goal is to introduce a stable way to interact with Anaconda to support its customization, extensibility, and testability. It will be easier to monitor the installation, maintain an install class or an addon, drop some modules or provide your own UI. Continue reading
Friday, 2018-04-13 is the Kernel 4.16 Test Day!
The kernel team is working on final integration for Kernel 4.16. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora.
This version will also be the shipping kernel for Fedora 28. So it’s to see whether it’s working well enough and catch any remaining issues. Continue reading
Tuesday, 2018-04-10 is the Fedora 28 Add-on Modularity Test Day! As part of the change, we’ll be testing the new add-on modules on the latest Fedora Server.
We need your help to test if everything runs smoothly!
Many of you would have read the amazing article which came out months ago!
Featuring one of major change[1] of Fedora 28 Server we would test to make sure that all the functionalities are performing as they should. Continue reading
Wednesday, 2018-04-04 is the Fedora 28 Rust Test Day! As part of change we’ll be testing some of the application written with rust.
We need your help to test if everything runs smoothly!
Many of you would have read the amazing magazine article which came out a month ago!
Featuring two of the big changes[1][2] of Fedora 28 we would test to make sure that all the functionalities are performing as they should.
It’s also pretty easy to join in: all you’ll need is Fedora 28(which you can grab from the wiki page). Continue reading
Friday, 2018-03-26 is the Fedora 28 Gnome 3.28 Test Day! As part of changes Gnome 3.28 in Fedora 28, we need your help to test if everything runs smoothly!
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 28(which you can grab from the wiki page). Continue reading
Thursday, 2018-03-22, is Deprecate TCP wrappers Test Day! This insallment of Test Day will focus on testing an important change set.
Removing this package from Fedora will remove a package from default and minimal installations (removing dependency of daemons such as SSHD). It also makes the configuration straight-forward for new users (no shared files defining access rules, poorly reporting any errors to users).
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All of the coming week, we will be testing for i18n features in Fedora 28. Those are as follows:
The fontconfig 2.13 Change will be based on the fontconfig upstream 2.13 release which will help to reduce the time during the font package installation/removal on the scriptlet to create/update caches which will make package installations/removal 5x to 10x faster than the previous release. This release also improves the performance of the applications with flatpak.
Then there are 3 default font Changes for Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. All these languages now will use default font as Google Noto fonts. E.g. for Serif style they will use Noto Serif CJK, Noto Serif JP, Noto Serif KR fonts respectively. Continue reading
Thursday, 2017-11-30, is Kernel 4.14 Test Day! Although Fedora 28 will be using 4.15 , we want to test it across all architectures and different
variants of Fedora 28.
Test Day will focus on testing the new kernel, as the 4.14 kernel has just released, we would like to get a test day in before we push the rebase to stable releases.
We will have ISOs for USB images so that users can test on bare metal or in VMs, and the kernel will be available in the stabilization repo for users who wish to install it on existing systems.
We hope to see whether it’s working well enough and catch any remaining issues.
All the instructions are on the wiki page, so please read through and come help us test! As always, the event will be in on #fedora-test-day Freenode IRC.
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