Hello and welcome to this issue of Heroes of Fedora focused on Fedora 26 Alpha release! The purpose of Heroes of Fedora is to provide a summation of testing activity on each milestone release of Fedora. So, without further ado, let’s get started!

Updates Testing

Compared to Fedora 25 Alpha, there were 244 less testers who contributed to Bodhi updates in Fedora 26 Alpha.

Test period: Fedora 26 Alpha (2017-02-28 – 2017-04-04)
Testers: 84
Comments1: 690

Name Updates commented
besser82 208
heikoada 109
pnemade 70
cserpentis 56
lupinix 35
piotrdrag 29
renault 21
adamwill 19
sumantrom 9
raveit65 6
frieben 6
dustymabe 5
raphgro 5
akurtakov 5
ngompa 5
lnie 5
roshi 4
pbrobinson 4
gnokii 4
filiperosset 4
anonymous 4
pwhalen 3
…and also 62 other reporters who created less than 3 reports each, but 74 reports combined!

1 If a person provides multiple comments to a single update, it is considered as a single comment. Karma value is not taken into account.

Validation Testing

Compared to Fedora 25 Alpha, there were 7 less testers this release and 67 less testing reports.

Test period: Fedora 26 Alpha
Testers: 20
Reports: 323
Unique referenced bugs: 9

Name Reports submitted Referenced bugs1
pwhalen 141 1420520 1434943 1434951 (3)
roshi 57 1434619 (1)
sumantrom 25
pschindl 18
alciregi 17
jsedlak 8
coremodule 8
tenk 7 1437525 (1)
fab 7
satellit 6
siddharthvipul1 6
adamwill 5 1433560 1434462 1435010 1437299 (4)
lnie 5
kevin 5
cmurf 3
h4xr 1
a2batic 1
krouma 1
lbrabec 1
sumantro 1

1 This is a list of bug reports referenced in test results. The bug itself may not be created by the same person.

Bug Reports

Compared to Fedora 25 Alpha, there were 38 more Bugzilla bug reports and 59 more bug reports.

Test period: Fedora 26 Alpha (2017-02-28 – 2017-04-04)
Reporters: 114
New reports: 274

Name Reports submitted1 Excess reports2 Accepted blockers3
lnie 23 1 (4%) 0
Adam Williamson 18 0 (0%) 4
Heiko Adams 11 0 (0%) 0
Stephen Gallagher 10 0 (0%) 0
Dan Horák 8 1 (12%) 0
Lukas Slebodnik 8 0 (0%) 0
Paul Whalen 6 4 (66%) 1
Chris Murphy 6 0 (0%) 0
Dusty Mabe 6 0 (0%) 0
Jitka Plesnikova 6 0 (0%) 0
Joachim Frieben 6 0 (0%) 0
Leslie Satenstein 6 1 (16%) 0
Richard W.M. Jones 5 0 (0%) 1
Jiri Eischmann 5 0 (0%) 0
Ali Akcaagac 4 1 (25%) 0
Andrey Motoshkov 4 0 (0%) 0
Micah Abbott 4 1 (25%) 0
Sylvain Réault 4 0 (0%) 0
Alessio 3 2 (66%) 0
David Sommerseth 3 0 (0%) 0
Mike Ruckman 3 0 (0%) 0
Mikhail 3 0 (0%) 0
Petr Schindler 3 2 (66%) 0
Vedran Miletić 3 0 (0%) 0
Éric Fintzel 3 2 (66%) 0
Björn “besser82” Esser 2 0 (0%) 0
Brian Bouterse 2 2 (100%) 0
Christian Crispino 2 0 (0%) 0
Elad Alfassa 2 0 (0%) 0
Freddy E. Montero 2 0 (0%) 0
Igor Gnatenko 2 0 (0%) 0
Jan Kurik 2 0 (0%) 0
Joël Krähemann 2 0 (0%) 0
Kamil Páral 2 0 (0%) 0
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky 2 0 (0%) 0
Mamoru TASAKA 2 1 (50%) 0
Mark Wielaard 2 0 (0%) 0
Matus Honek 2 0 (0%) 0
Menanteau Guy 2 2 (100%) 0
Mikko Tiihonen 2 0 (0%) 0
Miro Hrončok 2 0 (0%) 0
Pavel Grunt 2 0 (0%) 0
Pavel Zhukov 2 0 (0%) 0
Petr Pisar 2 0 (0%) 0
Ralf Corsepius 2 0 (0%) 0
Remi Collet 2 0 (0%) 0
Rex Dieter 2 0 (0%) 0
Seppo Yli-Olli 2 0 (0%) 0
Stanislav Zidek 2 1 (50%) 0
…and also 65 other reporters who created less than 2 reports each, but 65 reports combined!

1 The total number of new reports (including “excess reports”). Reopened reports or reports with a changed version are not included, because it was not technically easy to retrieve those. This is one of the reasons why you shouldn’t take the numbers too seriously, but just as interesting and fun data.
2 Excess reports are those that were closed as NOTABUG, WONTFIX, WORKSFORME, CANTFIX or INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Excess reports are not necessarily a bad thing, but they make for interesting statistics. Close manual inspection is required to separate valuable excess reports from those which are less valuable.
3 This only includes reports that were created by that particular user and accepted as blockers afterwards. The user might have proposed other people’s reports as blockers, but this is not reflected in this number.

Conclusion

Thank you to all the testers who contributed to Fedora 26 Alpha testing! Without your support, Fedora would not be the quality OS that it is. With your continued testing, we will move forward with Fedora 26 and see you for the F26 Beta release!