Getting hardware info for bug triage

2013-02-23 Thread Christopher Beland
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/How_to_Triage says: > If you suspect a hardware-specific problem, you might request a > Smolt profile. The reporter may need to "yum install smolt" if it is > not already installed, then run "smoltSendProfile" and add the > public URL provided to the bug i

Request to add numlock functionality to QA checklist

2010-10-18 Thread Christopher Beland
Bug 626594 is requesting that numlock functionality be added to Fedora's "QA checklist". Is this something that's appropriate to add to release criteria or a test matrix or something? Or should we just leave it to Bugzilla (currently bugs 115909 and 528337 are still outstanding on this issue). -

Re: Nice-to-have bug trackers

2010-09-19 Thread Christopher Beland
Seems like a fine idea if the release engineering people actually use it and the overhead to maintain it isn't excessive. It would be nice to eliminate the "nice to have" in a different sense bug trackers - like F15Target (which isn't currently blocking anything) to prevent confusion and wasted ef

.local domains or some Exchange thing failing in F14

2010-09-17 Thread Christopher Beland
We have an Exchange server and I believe it serves both IM and email for the office. After applying one or another F14 updates-testing update from between yesterday and Sept. 8, Evolution and Pidgin are no longer able to connect. It looks like they are sending out mDNS packets and getting no repl

Re: Not too impressed with the quality of F14 at this time

2010-09-14 Thread Christopher Beland
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 16:16 -0400, Richard Ryniker wrote: > > Well, that's arguable. Many developers prefer apps to be 'chatty' and > > report things like this for informational purposes. It's a design > > choice, really. I encourage programs to generate copious output when they are in debug mode

Re: KernelBugTriage wiki page

2010-09-14 Thread Christopher Beland
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 10:24 -0500, fedora JP wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage This page hasn't been edited in over a month. Is it time to remove the notice that says "This page is a draft only It is still under construction and content may change. Do not rely on the informa

Re: Not too impressed with the quality of F14 at this time

2010-09-11 Thread Christopher Beland
I'm actually using F14 Alpha as my primary desktop, and other than Evolution being very crashy, I've encountered few problems that weren't in previous final releases. There are definitely some UI items that have improved on previous releases, so I am pretty happy. Whether it's working well in you