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This post will help you get started with QA and how you can get recognized in the community for your time , dedication and work. ** Make sure that you have a Bugzilla,FAS and email alias set up before to follow the steps below.If you haven't , you can find it here . Bodhi Its a web based tool you will use to push your packages to the Fedora repositories as an update, first an update to be tested (repository: updates-testing) then a stable update (repository: updates). Bodhi is also equipped with a fairly extensive test suite. This is the easiest way to start contributing even if you are very new to Fedora and Fedora QA. Let's start First of all, you need to remember that it's highly recommended to test in VM and not on your primary OS. As the pre-alpha,alpha and beta images are often buggy and not refined, its suggested that you test it on VM before installing any of those as primary. All the images of Fedora for all major architectures can be down...

What is Fedora QA? Fedora is an Open Source Linux based OS which releases once in every 6 months.The environment is very fast paced and with every release people require new features or updating existing features of the packages. To make sure everything works and with each release the performance keeps getting better , testing and quality checks are a must. In Fedora, we have to encompass the user experience as there are thousands and thousands of people who expect a more stable , feature enriched OS getting better with each release. Understanding the release cycle Before we jump into how you can get started, let me talk about how the whole process happens. Rawhide : This is an non freezing , ever growing branch where the contributors push their packages.After a time slice, we branch out the necessary stuffs for release and the rest of the rawhide keeps moving ahead. Branched: When we pull out a part from Rawhide and start testing and refining it for release. As, we ...

This post will be talking about the Test day which I am proposing and how I believe can increase more participation around QA in India and by extension the rest of the world. Why and How? Well, being an Open Source contributor for last 3 years, I know how important FOSS contribution matters in a person's personal growth. The state of any Open Source project depends on how much participation we have from the people. This involves people from various areas of life to come and work for a mission driven project. India is a very diverse country , having contributors from India is easy and since we have the right pool of talent getting them with us will create difference at a mass level. By far we have a good deal of people who participate in all the open source conferences and are ready to start their journey. QA being one of the easiest and fastest ways to get involved , building a strong community focused towards QA will increase the contribution spectrum by manifolds. Proposal of a ...

Jenkins is CI tool written in java. This post is gonna talk about how to set up jenkins for Windows 8.1 and likewise Windows 10. Notes: Prerequisites 1. Java 8( updated) : Download Once finished you can check your java version on the web with the following image as a result Installing This will vary according to connection of internet. 1.First of all we need to download the file "jenkins.war" file from here . After finishing off you can open up CMD with admin privileges and run The running of "java -jar jenkins.war"      " java -jar jenkins.war" You can launch the Jenkins http://locahost:8080 Head to manage and start the installation as Windows Service. Step 1 Installation completes After the installation,windows will be re-irritating jenkins service in the background.  In jenkins you can have Master and Slave nodes which you can manage. where the workload of building projects are delegated to multiple "slav...

This is a post about a event we did at ISM , Dhanbad . This was a connected devices event with a 36hr hackathon! The main idea of the event was to give a feel of IoT and help the participants build and work on ideas which would solve key issues of the current day. From both social and economic aspect we had a lot of project which came along by the end of 36hrs. Ayan (ReMo from Calcutta) and me started our journey from Kolkata to Dhanbad , People at Dhanbad greeted us well and took us to ISM campus , where we got freshened up for the hackathon and session.                                                               As people hacked tirelessly throughout the night , we mentored them and tired to solve their doubts . Many cool p...