future f12 test days

James Laska jlaska at redhat.com
Thu Apr 2 20:32:45 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 16:15 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 03:36:55PM -0400, James Laska wrote:
> > My apologies for not recalling the name, but a fellow tester posted
> a
> > comment in fedora planet recently suggesting this very idea ... that
> the
> > live image come with some pointers or instructions for the current
> test
> > day.  This is a great idea.
> > 
> > I'd like to not have to constantly edit the kickstart file used to
> > generate the live image.  Can folks think of a good way so that with
> a
> > little shell/python/$lang we can use the same kickstart file to
> produce
> > a live image that has ...
> > 
> >       * the Test Day starts as the firefox homepage
> >       * Or ... the firefox home page finds the most *current* test
> day
> 
> Or just point it at [[Test_Day:Current]] on the wiki (which I just
> made), and whenever we shift test days, just remember to keep that
> updated.  Note that I put it in the Test_Day: namespace so anyone can
> change it, so if it slips the collective mind, it will be easy to
> fix.  I suppose you could put this in a .url file on the Desktop.

Thank you, very nice.

> >       * Create a .desktop file when clicked, "Join Test Day IRC
> >         discussion"
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me -- could pidgin launch IRC based on this?  Or
> maybe just build in xchat-gnome?

Worth a shot, if nothing else we can just use the browser
(http://embed.mibbit.com/?server=irc.freenode.net&channel=%
23fedora-qa&forcePrompt=true)

Thanks,
James
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