Flock 2017

As many folks already know, Flock was in Cape Cod for 2017 and the format this year was a bit different than previous years - the emphasis was more on "doing" than focusing on talking about what had been done and what's planned for the upcoming...

Comparing Taskotron to Jenkins

I've gotten several questions in the last few weeks about Taskotron and how it compares to Jenkins. With the rate at which I'm getting that I'm getting these questions, it's a topic well worth exploring. Unfortunately, "How does Taskotron compare...

Supporting Open Source Video Conferencing

I wanted to watch the Fedora Council meeting earlier today but ran into problems on all of my machines due to how the video hangouts work - you pretty much have to install Google Chrome (edit: removed part about Chromium as a possible alternative...

Taskotron Update - June 2015

I've been rather silent about Taskotron progress as of late - mostly because we're still not ready to start accepting tasks from people. Despite the lack of noise, we have been making forward progress and are still on track to support more types...

Current State of Depcheck and Paths Forward

Depcheck is one of those things which is deceptively complicated. On the surface, it's such a simple thing: "figure out if the dep tree is broken" but reality makes the problem much more difficult and messy. We've recently deployed a rewrite of...

Taskotron Has Replaced AutoQA

It's getting on 2 years since I started working on the demo bits that would become the first demonstration of a system that would come to be known as Taskotron. Since that time, the project has gone through a name change, a lot of planning and...

Taskotron Status, Questions and Answers

It's been a while since I've written anything about Taskotron and we've been pretty quiet in general, so it's about time that changed. There will be more posts about Taskotron details in the next several weeks but this one is more of an overview....

How is Taskbot Different from AutoQA?

I've done quite a bit of talking about how taskbot could be flexible but a lot of it has been rather abstract and a more concrete example would be helpful. The Task To step through this, I'm going to use one of the simpler tests from the existing...

An Initial Idea for Taskbot

I've been talking about QA and test automation but haven't really gone into much detail about what exactly I want to do. Hopefully, I've made a sufficiently strong case for a task automation system vs. a strict test automation system already but...

Down With Test Automation! Long Live Task Automation!

It seems like at least once or twice a year, there is a renewed call for more automated testing or someone starts talking about some new form of automated testing which we could do to make Fedora better. Every single time this comes up, the...