Debian Plasma/KDE OpenQA

[Philip Hands]

Hi Aurélien,

Aurélien COUDERC <libre at coucouf.fr> writes:

> Dear Phil,
>
> thank you for working on Open QA, this is highly appreciated !
>
> This message is a heads up for incoming changes that I’ve uploaded to unstable and are going to break the tests when they reach testing :
> - I’ve fixed the theming (wallpaper) that was previously broken, so you’re going to get the new emerald wallpaper instead of the previously black background on first logins.
> - There’s now a welcome application to guide new users through a Plasma overview, it would be nice if you could adapt the tests to click through it, and check that it’s not shown again on next login. (Maybe even check that it’s shown again if not clicked through ?)
> - The default browser is now Firefox ESR instead of Konqueror, not sure you’re using the icons for test cases themselves but it changes the icons in the default panel which will be noticeable on screenshots.
>
> (See the attached screenshot to get an idea.)

Thanks for the advance notice -- It's also nice to have some feedback
about what tests might be useful.

> Also a couple of questions regarding openqa :
> - Can I subscribe to tests failure ?

One could send such notifications via a hook script, but so far I only
have a script for returning status to CI jobs on salsa (and I suspect
that outbound SMTP is not set up on that system), so it'll take a bit of
effort to make something like that possible.

> - Where are the test cases maintained ?

https://salsa.debian.org/qa/openqa/openqa-tests-debian/

> - Why run the tests against testing and not unstable ? Wouldn’t it be much better to cache issues before they reach testing ?

We're mainly focused on testing D-I daily images at present, and they
default to installing testing -- there's nothing to stop one installing
unstable, except that it more often breaks for uninteresting (to us
Debian Installer folks) reasons.

> I only had a very brief took so sorry if the answers to these should
> have been obvious.

Not a problem.  Feel free to ask away, as it would be nice to spread
things to testing a wider set of use-cases, which really needs people
who care about testing different things to get involved.

Cheers, Phil.
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