Here’s the last in my FUDCon 2012 post series! This time covering QA things that happened at the event. We had a nice group of QA folks – myself, Tim Flink, John Dulaney and Sandro Mathys were all there, plus many of our regular co-conspirators from the development, anaconda and rel-eng teams. The ‘biggest bang’ [...]
So what does it make sense to do the week after FUDCon, with Fedora 17 Alpha impending? Why, work on fixing random annoying bugs, of course! That’s pretty much what I’ve done this week. For some reason – I can’t even remember what the reason was any more – I decided to finally nail down [...]
(This is part 3 of my FUDCon odyssey, which I’m trying to split into smaller chunks as per Adam Young’s suggestion. Part 1 is my Day 1 summary. Part 2 is a post on the topic of the talk I gave on the barcamp day.) One of the most fun bits of FUDCon is always [...]
In deference to Adam Young, I’m going to try and write a series of broken-down posts on FUDCon, rather than one or two giant mish-mash-y summaries. So, this one’s about the presentation I gave, titled ‘Cloud 0.1′, with a subtitle I haven’t quite nailed down yet, but which is something like ‘Why Not to Spend [...]
Welp, I’m here at FUDCon Blacksburg. I meant to blog about it ahead of time, but never quite got around to it. It’s a slightly odd organization this year, very hackfest-heavy, with the keynote and barcamp stuff happening only on Day 2. So far I’m feeling fairly useless, as I can’t contribute much to any [...]
Ah, the car crash world that is the ebook industry strikes once more. Most of the Flashman books showed up as ebooks just recently, and I’m off on vacation on Wednesday, so I figured I’d buy the ones I hadn’t read – perfect spot of light holiday reading. First I look in the native epub [...]
Many thanks to John Dulaney, who’s taken on the task of Test Day co-ordinator for Fedora 17. He’s put up a post announcing the F17 Test Day cycle and explaining how to propose a Test Day (it hasn’t changed at all, so if you’re used to the process, go ahead and do it the usual [...]
I apologize for not updating this blog for a bit – there’s always one more thing that needs doing! However, just because I’ve been quiet doesn’t mean Fedora QA has been inactive – far from it. We managed to crawl across the Fedora 16 finishing line back in November, and we all took a few [...]
So for months I’ve used http://www.google.com/maps/m to get a mostly-usable Google Maps interface for my N900. This seems to have been the standard way to do it for N9 users as well. (Ovi Maps is useless: its public transit routing is awful and it just doesn’t have the ‘interesting places’ database that Google Maps has, [...]
As Fabian Deutsch noted recently, some F16 users might be seeing yum somewhat inexplicably failing to download repomd.xml for the Fedora repositories, which will stop you being able to install updated packages. Seth Vidal mentioned in the comments that this was caused by a bad nss update. To complete the information, the offending build of [...]
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