Proposal - "Slow updates" repo

[Luke Macken]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:20:12AM +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Luke Macken <lmacken at redhat.com> wrote:
> > So, how do we minimize that breakage?
> >
> >    - Ensure that new features are tested, by humans and ideally a test suite.
> 
> I have a brief test plan for some of my packages on my wiki page:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mbooth#Package_Maintenance
> 
> Although it's more of a personal /aide memoire/ rather than actual
> test procedure, I'm sure it would also be useful to others who are
> interested in testing my packages. It only takes a few minutes to go
> through and if any of the things on that list do not work, I consider
> it a bug. :-)
> 
> Would it be useful to mandate that maintainers provide a similar test
> plan for all packages going through updates-testing in order to make
> sure all the features are covered?

I think it would be extremely useful.  It looks like the QA team has
already started the initiative, but not many people have been helping.

    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Test_Cases
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/HowToTestTemplate

luke