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Fedora QA team lead. If Fedora isn't working, it's probably my fault! he/him/his

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adamw, to fedora
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today:

adamw, to random
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today's embarrassing workflow confession: I just now switched to using git remote add instead of manually editing .git/config, which I've been doing for I think about a decade at this point

adamw, to random
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today:

  • spent the entire day down a vast rabbit hole of ancient Fedora/EL release perl packaging stuff, trying to help a project which really didn't care to be helped. I should've taken a hint and quit sooner, but I am bad at stopping in the middle of things. Oh, well
  • emerged, at least, with https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/inxi/pull-request/1 to fix downstream problems

In case anyone was reading along at home with popcorn, here's how that test matrix turned out...

adamw, to fedora
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today:

  • caught up with shutdown email backlog (not too bad)
  • committed some updated needles I created over the shutdown but just left lying uncommitted on the prod server, did another small test fix
  • cleaned up the discussion thread on my big Bodhi PR a bit so it's easier to review (I hope)
  • updated openQA and os-autoinst packages to latest git
  • generated a big needle cleanup commit for openQA, put it on stg for testing
  • picked at https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/fedora_openqa/issue/108 a bit
adamw, to random
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today: more epic battling with the bodhi container development environment. fought ipsilon (fedora's identity...thingy) in a no-holds barred battle and eventually emerged victorious: now the dev env has a kinda 'real' identity layer, you can log in as different users with different capabilities, and be logged out.

this required me to write, uh, four patches (so far) for ipsilon. but it was the last big thing!

now i just need to tidy it all up, add some wrapper commands, and finally submit it.

adamw, to fedora
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PSA: if you're trying to upgrade to 39 early from 38, you may find it fails right now due to a file conflict in firmware packages. this is because F38's linux-firmware has got ahead of F39's. we can't fix it right away because of the F39 release freeze. it should be solved in a day or two. otherwise you can enable updates-testing, but of course that makes the upgrade a bit more risky.

adamw, to fedora
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today:

  • ran a very long and complicated 39 go/no-go meeting, unfortunately we had to slip another week, sent out announcements and updated schedule and calendar
  • a bit of testing and bug reproduction
  • filed a stable push request, will probably request a new candidate compose soon
  • upgraded staging instance to fedora 39 and latest openqa/os-autoinst builds, seems to be fine so far
adamw, to fedora
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Heads up, if you're lucky enough to be running on a AMD board - you probably want to update the firmware to version 3.03 (recently made available). according to feedback, it solves several problems folks were running into. https://community.frame.work/t/amd-ryzen-7040-series-bios-3-03-and-driver-bundle-beta/38655

adamw, to random
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today in "why boot chain security really is a thing even though some enthusiasts kinda hate it": https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/china-state-hackers-are-camping-out-in-cisco-routers-us-and-japan-warn/

note the quote: "Cisco also said that the hacker’s ability to install malicious firmware exists only for older company products. Newer ones are equipped with secure boot capabilities that prevent them from running unauthorized firmware, the company said."

adamw, to fedora
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today in qa: i'm testing . I think I might be doing this wrong

adamw, to fedora
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39 Beta is signed off and will be released on Tuesday Sep 19! https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-linux-39-beta-is-go/89893

adamw, to random
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writes long email
re-reads long email to try and edit it to be shorter
adds more sentences to it instead

adamw, to fedora
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today:

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today:

  • won the lottery! woohoo!
  • lots more trying to get update tests working post-F39 branching; I think I have it in a good state now, and gating is enabled for again. All tests should pass for Rawhide updates, for F39 updates the desktop_background tests will fail as we don't have F39 backgrounds yet, I have dropped these from the gating policy for now
  • got sysadmin-main powers. somebody has made a terrible mistake somewhere
adamw, to random
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Now at presents: A Week With @Conan_Kudo - activating the community to build cloud images

adamw, to random
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today: did my talk at , I think it wasn't quite as good as at devconf.cz because I was pretty tired, but went well enough! I'll post a link to a recording when one is up somewhere. lots of attending talks (some good ones on CPE team status and rpminspect), hallway track, pub quiz...now to try and get some sleep

adamw, to fedora
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yesterday and today: travel to ! I am here safely and will be presenting on the current state of automated testing in - that's and basically - at 3:30pm tomorrow in "Harbour 6". be there or...be somewhere else, it's up to you really! especially if you saw this talk one of the other three times I did it :D

https://flock2023.sched.com/event/de3fad0bd62299124e0ac852b71ee772

adamw, to Bash
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pop quiz! how, from a bash console, using GNU grep, do you grep for a string of four backslashes?

adamw, to python
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today:

adamw, to fedora
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My take on the kerfuffle: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f40-change-request-privacy-preserving-telemetry-for-fedora-workstation-system-wide/85320/392

adamw, to fedora
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Today:

  • waiting for the next unfortunately-timed news
  • still waiting
  • still waiting
  • nobody? Ok, the qa team would like to announce our new cryptocurrency-focused metaverse project
adamw, to random
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new blog post (yes I still remember how, apparently) on devconf.cz and other things (mostly already covered here): https://www.happyassassin.net/posts/2023/06/20/devconfcz-2023-rawhide-update-test-gating-eln-testing-and-more/

adamw, to fedora
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hey folks! I'm floating the idea of possibly dropping client support from the Fedora release criteria (so it'd still be there, but we wouldn't be required to test it every cycle and block the release if it fails). I'm looking for input.

is it a feature of Fedora you value? is it important enough to spend significant time automating (or continuing to test manually)?

thoughts here, or at https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/server@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/VKTFTPD5SXYX7YLRU7LFVWKYKKJL5H56/ , or https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-server-front-page-revamp-looking-for-feedback/79037/9

thanks!

adamw, to random
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It's happening!

adamw, to fedora
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