CentOS 5 Beta Initial Test Release

We are about to release an initial internal test release of
CentOS 5 beta 
to our qa team.

If folks here want to be a part of that test they need to
join the 
centos-qa list (ht
tp://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-qa) and 
send a message to this list (centos-devel) saying that 
they would like to be a part of the qa process and join the
qa team, 
with details of relevant experience if you are not known to
the core 
developers.

Membership of the centos-qa list will then be approved.


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On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:14:16PM +0000, Lance Davis
enlightened us:
> We are about to release an initial internal test
release of CentOS 5 beta 
> to our qa team.
> 
> If folks here want to be a part of that test they need
to join the 
> centos-qa list (ht
tp://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-qa) and 
> send a message to this list (centos-devel) saying that

> they would like to be a part of the qa process and join
the qa team, 
> with details of relevant experience if you are not
known to the core 
> developers.
> 
> Membership of the centos-qa list will then be
approved.
> 
> 

Sure, sign me up. Is there any documentation anywhere as to
what all needs
to be tested?

Matt

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> If folks here want to be a part of that test they need
to join the 
> centos-qa list (ht
tp://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-qa) and 
> send a message to this list (centos-devel) saying that
they would like to 
> be a part of the qa process and join the qa team, with
details of relevant 
> experience if you are not known to the core
developers.

Hi,

I'm Shad Lords.  I'd appreciate the opportunity to part of
the QA team. 
I've been working with linux for about 5 years.  I'm one of
the developers 
for SME Server (http://www.smeserver.org
) that is based on CentOS 4.  In 
working with SME Server I've had quite a bit of experience
in working with 
many of the base packages that are critical to having a
stable system.  I'm 
fimiliar with troubleshooting and narrowing problems down
their cause.  I'm 
excited to help test and verify CentOS 5.

-Shad 

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On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:14 +0000, Lance Davis wrote:
> We are about to release an initial internal test
release of CentOS 5 beta 
> to our qa team.
> 
> If folks here want to be a part of that test they need
to join the 
> centos-qa list (ht
tp://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-qa) and 
> send a message to this list (centos-devel) saying that

> they would like to be a part of the qa process and join
the qa team, 
> with details of relevant experience if you are not
known to the core 
> developers.

I've got a dual opteron sun x2100 running centos4.4 that is
currently
going spare. So I can test c4->5 upgrade. I'd also like
to test install
over http and kickstart over http if that's useful.

I can devote a bit of time to this since all our important
systems run
on centos4. If there are any specific tests I could do, let
me know.

If all that works I'll be interested in looking at how the
Xen stuff is
coming along.

I know you are all busy but I'd just like to mention that
that 4way
itanium box is still sitting idle in my machine room waiting
to do
centos builds 

Thanks,
Huw

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On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:14 +0000, Lance Davis wrote:
> If folks here want to be a part of that test they need
to join the 
> centos-qa list (ht
tp://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-qa)
> and 
> send a message to this list (centos-devel) saying that

> they would like to be a part of the qa process and join
the qa team, 
> with details of relevant experience if you are not
known to the core 
> developers.

I would like to join the QA team. My name is Bob Pierce. I
work for a
local ISP where I look after about 20 CentOS servers. We
have been using
CentOS and providing a public mirror since the days when it
shared
mirrors with the cAos project. 

We build between 3-6 new servers each year as part of our
server
cascade, and I was hoping to build this year's servers with
CentOS 5. I
would really appreciate the opportunity to test out the beta
versions on
our servers. I'm willing to help with any testing and bug
reporting
process you may like.


Bob Pierce 
Network Analyst 
Westman Communications Group 
204.725.4300 ext 383 
piercebwestmancom.com
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On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:14:16PM +0000, Lance Davis
wrote:
> If folks here want to be a part of that test they need
to join the 
> centos-qa list (ht
tp://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-qa) and 
> send a message to this list (centos-devel) saying that

> they would like to be a part of the qa process and join
the qa team, 
> with details of relevant experience if you are not
known to the core 
> developers.

I'd like to join, please.

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On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:14 +0000, Lance Davis wrote:
> We are about to release an initial internal test
release of CentOS 5 beta 
> to our qa team.
> 
> If folks here want to be a part of that test they need
to join the 
> centos-qa list (ht
tp://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-qa) and 
> send a message to this list (centos-devel) saying that

> they would like to be a part of the qa process and join
the qa team, 
> with details of relevant experience if you are not
known to the core 
> developers.
> 
> Membership of the centos-qa list will then be
approved.

I'd like to be included, as well.

-sv


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On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Shad L. Lords wrote:

> I'm one of the developers for SME Server (http://www.smeserver.org
) that 
> is based on CentOS 4.

And I'm another of those, and have begun the task of porting
to RHEL5. I'd 
like to help with your effort too.
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Hi,

I'd like to be added to the QA group please.  We use CentOS
heavily here at SourceLabs for all of our production systems
as well as for our test/certification process for the SASH
stack.  Our certification infrastructure is heavily
virtualized, so Xen gets a real workout.

Is there a defined set of test/QA criteria that will be
provided?

Thanks.

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On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:14 +0000, Lance Davis wrote:
> We are about to release an initial internal test
release of CentOS 5 beta 
> to our qa team.
> 
> If folks here want to be a part of that test they need
to join the 
> centos-qa list (ht
tp://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-qa) and 
> send a message to this list (centos-devel) saying that

> they would like to be a part of the qa process and join
the qa team, 
> with details of relevant experience if you are not
known to the core 
> developers.
> 
> Membership of the centos-qa list will then be
approved.

Please count me in.  Have been on the -devel list for a
while but here's
some personal experience (more than you wanted to know, no
doubt; but
you asked .  First
used a computer in 1966, when doing a plot for EE
lab in Algol on Hollerith cards consumed the entire
room-sized Burrows
B5500.  First interactive programming was in BASIC on a
paper TTY circa
1969, before dropping out to waste a few years in menial
pursuits.

First professional programming job was as a grad student in
1977 doing
FORTRAN on punch card decks on a CDC mainframe for NASA
Microwave
Landing System research.  Had to sign up a day in advance to
get time on
the one Tektronics graphics terminal to develop models and
view results
interactively.  Then at graduation, hired on with a NASA
contractor to
work on SeaSat radar satellite research that resulted in the
first
satellite remote sensing of ocean wind speed/direction.  Did
some
real-time hardware/software to digitize and analyze
microwave radiometer
data recorded on analog tape on a Data General
"mini" that had
front-panel switches to start the boot from 8"
hard-sector floppies -
still FORTRAN.  Moved on to an early DEC VAX 11/750 in 1983
with a VT100
terminal all my own, and became the de-facto VAX/VMS system
administrator when nobody else jumped in to learn to manage
it.  (I
believe Jon "maddog" Hall left DEC about the time
Microsoft hired much
of the VMS team to create NT.)   First UNIX was SunOS, later
Solaris, on
Motorola 68K and then on SPARC in the late 1980s and early
1990s - still
primarily FORTRAN but began moving to C.

First PC Unix was SCO (right after becoming a NASA
bureaucrat and before
SCO became a dirty word) to run Oracle on a $14K i386 (still
cheaper
than the SPARCstations) in 1991 - to analyze research data
from a
prototype airborne wind shear radar, after we flew it
through
microbursts on a NASA B-737 nicknamed Fat Albert to collect
the data.
Spent a lot of nights and weekends getting a real-time
VME-bus Motorola
68K system with 6 DSPs programmed in C under OS-9 to work
to
collect/display radar wind shear hazard data.  We knew it
was working
correctly when the NASA pilots began to trust the airborne
radar
displays we gave them over the up-linked wind shear hazard
data from the
big ground radars.  This led to FAA certification of wind
shear hazard
detection on commercial weather radars from
Bendix-King/AlliedSignal
(now Honeywell) and Rockwell-Collins, now in use on
thousands of
airliners.  On the home front, played with the Commodore
VIC20, C64, and
Amiga; then M$ DOS and Windows 3.1.  First home
"Unix" was Coherent
(Unix-like PC OS that eventually had TCP/IP and X) on a
286.

Have been using Linux since 0.99-12, circa 1993 - on
5.25" floppy.
First distro was Slackware on ~60 3.5" floppies, first
CD distro was
Yggdrasil.  Tried some other early distros including Caldera
(again
before the SCO acquisition and nastiness) before settling on
Red Hat
with 3.0.3 (Picasso).  First serious Linux use for work was
the
development of radar simulations on Red Hat 4.0-4.2.  Moved
to Fedora
Core after the RH9 demise - never having required the RH
support that
came with the boxed sets - supporting radar airborne/runway
object and
enhanced radar turbulence hazard detection.  Moved to
WhiteBox 3 for
work purposes when it became clear that FC was not
sufficiently stable.

Moved to CentOS when they were first with a viable EL4
rebuild.  Don't
really do much programming any more except in Matlab/Octave
and hacking
up a few non-CentOS SRPMs for local use when stuff I need is
not
available from the standard repos.  Have been testing the
EL5 beta under
VMware Workstation on CentOS4, and trust that the CentOS
beta will not
replicate the awful red color schemes.  I currently maintain
CentOS 4.4
on 3 home machines and 6 work machines (one a quad-processor
10TB RAID
data/compute server), try to help out a bit on various
lists, and play
with Fedora and Ubuntu, when I'm not doing my current real
job in the
NASA Aviation Safety Program - External Hazard Detection
sensor
research.

Hope I'm approvable for centos-qa.

Phil


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