38: Fedora Quality Assurance

Using Fedora Linux is one of the easiest routes to using Linux as a daily driver. How does new software get vetted? What makes the experience so smooth? At the heart of the development process is Quality Assurance Engineering (or QA). Join us as we talk with Adam Williamson about what it means to be a QA Engineer and how it helps Fedora be that much better!

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Wnat to contribute?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Join

Example Change Proposal

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f42-change-proposal-distributing-kickstart-files-as-oci-artifacts-self-contained/131150

Blocker Bugs

https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/41/final/buglist

Fedora 41 Test Results

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Summary

Wiki: Tuned Profile Management Change

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/TunedAsTheDefaultPowerProfileManagementDaemon

Test Day Events:

https://testdays.fedoraproject.org/events

🔖 Chapters

00:00 Stream start

00:20 Welcome

00:45 Meet Noah

04:41 Meet Adam

08:40 What is quality assurance?

16:41 When is the busy season for QA?

20:05 How do I get involved?

26:30 How are Fedora and RHEL QA different?

31:29 CI and OpenQA

40:00 Questions

45:38 Closing thoughts

Special Guest: Adam Williamson.