Jon Stanley and I did a presentation at FUDCon Boston on Bug Triage. We had nice turn out and some good questions. The slides are here though we intentionally blasted through the first half of them so that we could… Continue Reading →
As a follow-up to a previous post titled What is Rawhide For? we had a great discussion at FUDCon Boston during the Friday afternoon hackfest. Admittedly we didn’t hack on any code, though Seth Vidal wrote some based on one… Continue Reading →
Last night, as part of the end-of-life (EOL) process for Fedora 7, all open Fedora 7 bugs were closed. These bugs were closed because the Fedora 7 release is no longer maintained and no more updates will be shipped for… Continue Reading →
Rawhide serves several purposes in Fedora and yet I don’t think we clearly delineate what they are. It is often said in Fedoraland that the best way to test the Fedora is to “run rawhide.” There is a difference between… Continue Reading →
We’ve made some good progress since discussions around bug triage started last December. At the time there were approximately 13,500 open Fedora bugs. Today the count is 3,000 less at approximately 10,500. While we talk about closing bugs a lot,… Continue Reading →
One of my jobs within Red Hat is help to make sure Red Hat Engineering is in sync with what Fedora is doing and vice versa. Many people assume that because the Fedora Project is sponsored by Red Hat that… Continue Reading →
Since starting the daily dose of rawhide I am gradually becoming more acquainted with the ins and outs of rawhide. A particular day or release of rawhide only exists for a twenty-four hour period–longer if something goes wrong with the… Continue Reading →
Yesterday afternoon I posted to fedora-test-list about an opportunity to help triage bugs which had been in NEEDINFO for more than 30 days. At the time of my posting there were approximately 175 Fedora 7 bugs in NEEDINFO…. today, hardly… Continue Reading →
All of the features are complete for Fedora 9. Thanks to all the feature owners and package maintainers for making all of the new features and innovations happen in Fedora 9! The final feature list is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList All in… Continue Reading →
For the past few weeks I’ve taken up a new experiment–attempting to install rawhide every day. Rawhide is unique in that it is a daily development snapshot that only exists publicly for one day. If you have disc space, naturally… Continue Reading →
Have you ever had a job you did not like? This book–described as a page turner by one reviewer–is a fable illustrating what separates good jobs from bad ones. I think it also speaks clearly to the keys for success… Continue Reading →
I first became interested in using jigdo (Jigsaw Download) during the test releases for Fedora 8. I was spending a lot of time getting the DVD ISOs over bittorrent and was annoyed that in all probability I already had packages… Continue Reading →
Robert Safian, editor of the excellent magazine Fast Company, writes a thought provoking introduction titled “Inspiration and Perspiration” in the latest issue. It is the background to the issue’s cover story about Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe for the February 2008… Continue Reading →
As a follow up to a previous post, I have been working with people in each of the Fedora subgroups to collect more information about all that goes into making a Fedora release happen. This information is represented in one… Continue Reading →
A new person recently came to live at our house who has the condition some would describe as colic. After consulting some of the experts (haven’t read the book, but the DVD is really good) we found that one of… Continue Reading →
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