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Test Days: Fedora 29 Fedora Media Writer Test Day 2018-07-12

Test Day: Fedora Media Writer 2018-07-12

Thursday, 2018-07-12, is the Fedora Media Writer Test Day! We need your help to test Fedora Media Writer!

Why test Fedora Media Writer?

This installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Fedora Media Writer . Fedora Media Writer, is used for creating bootable flashdrives on different operating systems and architectures. The tool is intended to be provided as the primary download option since Fedora 25, with the aim of lowering the barrier for potential users to try and install Fedora. In this test day, we aim to test both Fedora 28 and Fedora 29 Pre-Release boot-media creation on Windows, OS X, and Fedora, specifically targeting creation of ARM-bootable media.

Mindshare Election: Interview with Sumantro Mukherjee (sumantrom)

May 30, 2018 / sumantrom / 1 Comment

This is a part of the Mindshare Elections Interviews series. Voting is open to all Fedora contributors. The voting period starts on Thursday, May 31st and closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on Wednesday, June 6th, 2018.

Interview with Sumantro Mukherjee (sumantrom)

Fedora Account: sumantrom
IRC: sumantrom (found in #fedora-qa #fedora-test-day #fedora-classroom #fedora-india #fedora-meeting)
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Fedora 28: Let’s have an awesome release party!

May 3, 2018 / sumantrom / 4 Comments

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

Fedora 28 Upgrade Test Day 2018-04-19

April 16, 2018 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

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!

Why Upgrade Test Day?

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

Fedora 28 Anaconda Test Day 2018-04-16

April 15, 2018 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

Monday, 2018-04-16 is the Fedora 28 Anaconda Test Day!

Why 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

Kernel 4.16 Test Day 2018-04-13

April 11, 2018 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

Friday, 2018-04-13 is the Kernel 4.16 Test Day!

Why Test Kernel?

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

Fedora 28 Add-on Modularity Test Day 2018-04-10

April 9, 2018 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

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!

Why Modularity Test Day?

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

Fedora 28 Rust Test Day 2018-04-04

April 2, 2018 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

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!

Why Rust Test Day?

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

Fedora 28 Gnome 3.28 Test Day 2018-03-26

March 25, 2018 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

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!

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 28(which you can grab from the wiki page). Continue reading

Deprecate TCP wrappers Test Day 2018-03-22

March 18, 2018 / sumantrom / 0 Comments

Thursday, 2018-03-22, is Deprecate TCP wrappers Test Day! This insallment of Test Day will focus on testing an important change set.

Why test?

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).
Continue reading