Tirfa Blog

A new way to propose blocker and freezeException bugs

Mon 29 April 2013 By Tim

Now that the blocker tracking app has moved onto production Fedora infrastructure, we have a new way to propose blocker and freezeException bugs for Fedora releases under development.

The Old Way

Before now, the only ways to get a bug proposed as a blocker or freezeException were to know how ...
read more
Proposing Blocker Bugs

Wed 23 January 2013 By Tim

I think this topic came up in the past but it was more of a "wouldn't it be cool if we did this" thing than an actual proposal. While at FUDCon Lawrence, we came up with a proposal to create a web form to assist in proposing blocker and ...
read more
FUDCon Lawrence 2013 Hackfests

Tue 22 January 2013 By Tim

While the presentations at FUDCon are always interesting, one of the big things which is possible at FUDCon is to collaborate with people while we're in the same location.

Fedora Test Automation

There hasn't been a whole lot of movement on the test automation front in Fedora as ...
read more
FUDCon Lawrence 2013 - Day 1

Fri 18 January 2013 By Tim

It's that time of year again - FUDCon time! I wish that I had a little more time to get stuff ready after Fedora 18 was released but there's not much I can do about it at the moment.

Today started as most FUDCons do - with a rundown of ...
read more
Converting To Pelican

Thu 06 December 2012 By Tim

I've been running my blog with Habari for a while now and while there are a lot of things I like about the platform (the comment system and the admin interface, mostly), I find the lack of decent themes, the need to either write posts in raw HTML or ...
read more
Gooey Karma

Tue 20 March 2012 By Tim

When I'm going through updates to give karma, I'm usually using fedora-easy-karma. While it's a great tool, the information that it provides is a but raw and doesn't provide much in the way of information if you're not already familiar with the package under test ...
read more
IPython Notebook in Virtualenv

Sat 17 March 2012 By Tim

I'm a big fan of using virtualenv to keep development environments separated and want to use IPython notebooks with those virtualenvs. One might think that you could just install ipython and go but it turns out that there are a couple other steps needed to make this work. Before ...
read more
PyCon 2012

Wed 14 March 2012 By Tim

While I could sit here and write pages on what I learned at PyCon, I think that it would be a bit more productive and readable to list a few of the highlights. Going into PyCon, my major interests were testing technique (for AutoQA), data analysis and visualization (mostly for ...
read more
Utility of Comparisons

Fri 09 March 2012 By Tim

One thing that I think we've all done in the past is write comparisons of different tools and frameworks. I've certainly done several in the past and they were read one or twice (by nobody other than my team mates) and are forgotten unless the topic comes up ...
read more
Simple Testing Session Example

Mon 28 November 2011 By Tim

One of the things that I've been thinking about lately is how to do more testing of builds in updates-testing without needing to rely on pre-written scripted test cases. There's nothing wrong with scripted testcases but they're a bit painful to write and they aren't always ...
read more