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Gotta Badge 'Em All: I Voted: Fedora 33 -- Participated in the Fedora 33 Elections!

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 03:04:54 +0500

This article is inspired by Justin W. Flory’s Gotta Badge `em All series about how to earn specific Fedora badges.

I Voted Fedora 33: What it’s about?

The I Voted Fedora 33 Badge is categorized as Community Badge and it’s defined in this Pagure Ticket

But What it’s all About ?

In short, it’s what it says in the Description : “You participated in Fedora 33 Elections”. It is awarded to people who vote in the Fedora Elections.

What are Fedora Elections ?

Fedora has several elected bodies that regularly conduct elections every release cycle. In addition, Fedora teams can request one-off elections from the Fedora Program Manager when trying to select new leadership or otherwise reach a decision through a formal voting process.

We currently have 3 Open Elections, that takes place every release whenever we have a free seat including:

FESCo (Engineering) [Fedora Engineering & Steering Committee]
Mindshare Committee. (Community) [I’m running for the Mindshare seat this year too]
Fedora Council.

How the Election Process works ?

Fedora Implements a Range voting system, which works on the principle of allowing voters to rate as many candidates as they want on scale from 1 to 4.

This method is designed to give voters the option of splitting their vote and showing their level of preference of a subset of candidates over another.

Once voting ends, votes are tallied using the summing method (addition of all votes) to generate a final score for a candidate.

How do I earn “I Voted: Fedora 33” ?

Earning I Voted: Fedora 33 is pretty easy & can be only obtained till Thursday, December 3rd 2020, 23:59:59 UTC, The process is pretty simple:

To vote for Different elections, there are different eligiblity crieteria:
- To vote for the Fedora Council you must have cla_done in FAS.
- To vote for FESCo you must have cla_done + one other “non-cla” group in FAS.
- To vote for Mindshare you must have a cla_done in FAS.
- In Case, You’re not eligible, You can create a ticket here
Once you’re eligible, You can head over to the Fedora Elections App here
Login with your FAS ID.
One you’re logged in, A page would appear with a list of all the Open Election
Then you can click on Vote Now in the Open election you would like to vote on.
The Voting page would appear with all the Candidates for the specific election along with their Interviews to get to know them better
Once you select the votes in the Range counter and when you would select Preview your Vote -> Submit Your Vote, A unique link would be generated to claim the badge.
On clicking the link, it would redirect you to a Fedora Badges link where you can sign in and it would automatically award you the badge.

Best of Luck with Claiming the Badge.

Gotta Badge 'Em All: Fedora Social Panda

Fri, 01 May 2020 02:56:46 +0500

This article is originally inspired by Justin W. Flory’s Gotta Badge `em All series about how to earn specific Fedora badges.

How It all Started is, As COVID-19 is getting pretty real and resulting in people performing social distancing, shelter-in-place & Lockdowns resulting in most of us feeling pretty isolated so out Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller & Fedora Project Contributor Neal Gompa had the idea to have a Fedora Social Hour where folks could Chat & get a little e-human contact and conversation.

Now, let’s focus on the badge now, As we have activities in Fedora, We have Badges, the Fedora Social Panda badge is categorized as “Event Badge” and it’s crieteria is defined in this Pagure ticket

In short, The Fedora Social Panda Badge is awarded to folks we participate in a Fedora Social Hour with the Community.

In order to earn this badge, you would have to join a weekly fedora social hour.

How do I know when it’s happening?

To know when a Fedora Social Hour will be organized, Keep an eye on the Fedora Community Blog, As that’s where most of the announcements are made for the Community.

Another preffered way is to keep an eye is by joining the Fedora Social Hour on Riot.im, As this is where we have our Social Hours nowadays, as it has Jitsi & Etherpad widgets that we’ve implemented.

If you would like to stick with the Freenode IRC Channel, it’s #fedora-social-hour on Freenode IRC that is bridged with the Matrix Room.

Once, You attend a Fedora Social Hour, you can share your FAS ID for the organizers to award that badge to you.

Looking forward to see you all in the next Fedora Social Hour, I’m nasirhm there. :D

Gotta Badge 'Em All: Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 06:19:13 +0500

This article is inspired by Justin W. Flory’s Gotta Badge `em All series about how to earn specific Fedora badges.

The Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020 badge is categorized as a “Event Badge” and it’s defined in this Pagure ticket But what it’s all about?

In short, the Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020 badge is awarded to people who attended the Red Hat Virtual Summit 2020 & Participated in The Fedora Chatroom on April 28-29. There are some really awesome Fedora & CentOS folks having some really insightful & fun discussions there. This badge is a fun way to represent your participation in the Redhat Virtual Summit 2020 on the Fedora & CentOS Chatroom.

Earning Fedora & CentOS Social @ Summit 2020 is pretty easy & can only be attained on April 28-29 2020. The steps are pretty Simple:

Sign Up/Sign In for the Redhat Virtual Summit 2020
After logging in, Goto, Explore -> Community Central -> Fedora/CentOS
Communicate your thoughts/ideas in the live chat.
Dont’t forget to share your FAS id in the live chat, For the badge to be awarded. :D

In Case, you don’t have a FAS Id, here’s a link to sign up.

Note : This Badge can only be awarded on April 28-29 2020, As it’s about Redhat Virtual Summit, One Day’s left (When I’m writing this article).

Looking forward to see you all in the Fedora & CentOS Social at Redhat Summit.

Getting Started with Fedora QA - Part 1

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 17:29:03 +0500

What is SQA (Quality Assurance) ?

According to Wikipedia : Software quality assurance (SQA) is a means of monitoring the software engineering processes and methods used to ensure proper quality. SQA encompasses the entire software development process, including requirements definition, software design, coding, code reviews, source code control, software configuration management, testing, release management and product integration. It is organized into goals, commitments, abilities, activities, measurements and verification.

By simplifying, Software Quality Assurance is a way to ensure that the Code/Software that a developer has written has been tested across different mediums and produces the expected results.

Why Quality Assurance is an essential component for Fedora Project

Fedora is an Open Source Linux distribution Operating System which releases once in every six months and as a result the environment becomes very fast paced and that could make things break among general users of the distro, to prevent that to happening to users & to make sure everything works as expected, Quality Assurance is a must in Fedora Project. 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 that gets better with each release.

Fedora Release Cycle

Before we jump into practical tools, let’s have a quick introduction to how the process works

The above diagram displays a clear demonstration of how Fedora creates it’s release

It includes these branches:

Rawhide serves as the upstream for the release branch, it’s a bleeding edge, non freezing branch where contributors consitently push their packages, after a time slice we branch out different necessary packages and the Rawhide keeps on growing.

Branched Release is the version which gets branched out from the ongoing Rawhide & starts to get tested & refines for the release. As we reach this point, the QA team gets hands on with it :)

Prerequisites

FAS ID : https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/

A FAS (Fedora Account System) account is essential for you to get login access to all subprojects in Fedora with the same user ID and passwords.

Bugzilla : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/

Bugzilla serves as the bug tracking system for Fedora Project, with Bugzilla you can create & verify bugs along with fixing some! :)

To register on Bugzilla, We recommend using your @fedoraproject.org email Alias, because in different places for QA you would require it.

NOTE : If you don’t have a @fedoraproject.org email Alias, We have a good news for you, you can reach out to us on Fedora Join and we can provide you a temporary membership, which would give you the ability to attain your email Alias.

After setting up your accounts, you can reach out to the QA Team on IRC, As it’s the place where most of the QA team is available, The channel for Fedora QA is: #fedora-qa and for Matrix users, It’s: #freenode_#fedora-qa:matrix.org

Another alternative to IRC, is mailing lists where you can have discussions with Fedora QA team, in case if you need any clarification or being faced by issues. Mailing list requires you to subscribe to it before you can post/ask/talk. The fedora QA mailing list resides here : test

To subscribe to the mailing list you would need a FAS ID too.

Best of luck for starting QA with Fedora Project.

The next post would be more about getting involved and hands on with QA.

Thank You for reading, if you have any doubts or questions feel free to reach out to me here : Contact

Introduction to FOSS and Fedora Project

Sat, 15 Feb 2020 01:29:42 +0500

Introduction to Free and Open Source Software and Fedora Project

Originally presented at Fedora 31 Release Party Karachi on 15th Feb 2020 in Karachi, Pakistan

Key points

What is FOSS, Free and Open Source Software
Perks of contributing to a FOSS
What is Fedora Project
- Four Foundations
Where to contribute
How to start contributing

Slides

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