Adam Williamson

today in #fedora qa:
* re-investigated #openqa Clocks timer test fail, realized it's due to an intentional change upstream, adjusted the test - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/5ceda6c9d42b4bae0133d0cd8734014a3a8dd8b8
* adjusted a needle to resolve another test failure - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/f403e0acfc271f53ac6875749b37d3a181306a3e
* reported switched layout issue with Workstation installs - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2508253
* poked https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/tickets/issues/753 for jgroman
* enabled rmdepcheck gating (yay), wrote a report on the initial crop of gated updates - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TUX2LCEGW4M7LMXEBIFLDNCR6AIXRLYL/

today in #fedora qa:
* sync meeting with fedora CI folks (cristian le, frantisek lachman etc)
* looked into bodhi's use of dist-git pagure, filed a ticket for migrating it to forgejo - https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/issues/6146
* sent PR to add fedora forge to the trackers upstream #openqa knows about - https://github.com/os-autoinst/openQA/pull/7688 , backported it
* sent PR to update some pagure.io refs in bodhi - https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/pull/6147
* reported possibly-unintended font change in anaconda update - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-b6d5db1235#comment-4717102

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recently in #fedora qa: lots of needle updates and minor test tweaks for GNOME 51 and anaconda changes: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commits/branch/main

sorry, no exhaustive breakdown, it's been too long (I was out for a lot of friday, monday was a public holiday, and I've had some family medical stuff to deal with today). but that's mostly what I've been doing!

today in #fedora qa:
* #openQA test fixes:
** don't try and run kamoso on ELN - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/8a512576931869b476a54c30fa13f0d42be7c27b
** work around offscreen button in an install test - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/cfeac8f144fc42fe0665feb7a040dc46f752fae8
** work around offscreen button in KDE network test - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/26a465644501bafb6bf60b917ce1d2896eafc9f8
** updated anaconda and cockpit needles for new releases - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/7d26111df9cbfad31e1244ae76289c91316e6531 , https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/899fdcad4c27779069f5859edb8dc78374f39c40 , https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/be9692c2a5ac6985c9339bd92421255d6cce89df

today in "random good news":

today's #fedora #rawhide and branched (F44) composes were both perfect (no failed artifact builds at all) and each took less than 90 minutes. that includes producing over 100 (114, for Rawhide) images.

I remember when composes failed all the time, individual images failed all the time, and composes took up to 8 hours, so this is pretty cool!

great job everybody!

#dirtyfrag update for #fedora - updates are heading out right now for all current releases. See https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/WUIVFMIBWM6IVFJDLDSGJNFLTSYHYTLB/ . thanks @jforbes@mstdn.social !

yesterday in #fedora qa:
* invented a new mode for rmdepcheck to make it work almost correctly on side tags - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/rmdepcheck/pulls/45
* more testing on the Python rebuild update, filed manual waivers for failed Fedora CI tests to allow it to be pushed finally - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-2551d0d66b#comment-4713176
* sent a fix for bodhi dev env I hit while testing my ccp patch - https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/pull/6143
* sent PR to have bodhi expose compose critical path info - https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/pull/6142 (been working on this for a bit)

"I increasingly feel we’ll find out the answer to the question “What’s the worst that can happen?” in a blog post from OpenAI entitled “OpenAI first to discover the worst that can happen”." - Marina Hyde

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/24/apology-ai-boss-sam-altman-rogue-openai-startup-pentagon

help me, German, I need a loan word: that feeling you get when you open a new firefox tab and type a URL snippet to open a page, but while it's open you briefly see a junk story you secretly want to read, so you open a new tab again but the junk story list has changed and the one you hated yourself for wanting to read is gone, and now you feel both frustrated and guilty

yesterday in #fedora qa:
* fixed test failure (missing coverage) in my bodhi ccp PR - https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/pull/6142
* reviewed a couple of PRs - lukas' #openqa nautilus test fix (merged) and petr's unit tests for issuebot (requested changes) - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/pulls/608 , https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/issuebot/pulls/37
* reported plasma-setup language pre-selection broken again - https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-setup/-/merge_requests/109#note_1562066
* updated flatpak proxy hostname in openQA tests - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/b5dec1d3a558bfc53e5a0b1e00ad21f929ce4d16
* small test fix - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/28262f105b59095d56b04b2970dedf931815a133

today in #fedora qa:
* ran the blocker review meeting - https://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org/teams/f44-blocker-review/f44-blocker-review.2026-02-23-17.00.txt
* did some blocker herding
* sent a PR to update https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/releases/ - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/operations/docs/pulls/101
* did a bit more work on the openQA ELN live test stuff - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/fedora_openqa/pulls/122#issuecomment-544278
* some agile bureaucracy ahead of tomorrow's sprint meeting
* confirmed fix for mariadb crash on KDE - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2438390
* bunch of investigation on a weird bug where a GNOME update broke KDE network install - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439813#c11

I don't know who it is that keeps telling general-interest journalists writing about AI that "code either works or doesn't work", but whoever it is, please just stop.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/post-chatbot-claude-code-ai-agents/686029/

today in #fedora qa:
* herded FEs and blockers
* backported an anaconda blocker fix - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-48bfc8a951
* requested a new candidate compose - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/releng/tickets/issues/13244
* further investigation on the xdg-desktop-portal-gnome bug - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2440238#c15
* mitigated that bug in #openqa - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/ca98356
* more work on #eln desktop testing, decided to give up on retaking a million needles and force ELN GNOME to use the same font as Workstation - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/36a821e77134f3782c5e65f238f62deb4249ad10#diff-821c4867ec9f1f6a147f2fe2f4b623e3d3aacfb8

today in #fedora qa:
* internal team meetings
* checked in on blockers - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2359799#c17 , https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2451701#c12 , https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2449945
* filed blocker for final fedora-release and fedora-repos builds - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2453646
* updated some #openqa needles, including one update to make a test fail, not pass - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/cf6ff0a

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today in #fedora qa:
* internal meetings (cle team, quality team sprint meeting, 1x1)
* more investigation/testing on KDE netinst hang bug, submitted a workaround - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-d8b30d5a3b
* found many #freeipa upgrade tests were failing, figured out it was due to an f44 update failing gating so f43 package got ahead, fixed up the update and proposed a blocker bug - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-b73dee6cac , https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2442429
* fixed same problem in #rawhide - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-2fb25c3dd3

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today in #fedora qa:
* herded some blockers/FEs
* restarted some #openQA flakes
* converted the AI PR review workflow I'd been copying around repos to a reusable one and converted all the repos to use it, much nicer...bumped the version used to v2.5.0 to get gemini 3.1 pro - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/workflows
* more slogging away at needles for #eln #gnome - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/issues/452
* tried to bisect the xdg-desktop-portal-gnome startup bug further with very frustrating results - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2440238#c12

yesterday in #fedora qa:
* sync meeting with the fedora ci folks
* migrated resultsdb_api to Fedora Forge: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/resultsdb_api
* little bit of blocker herding, backported one blocker fix: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-cfc3ad1d41
* couple of simple #openqa update test failures: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-8139c978cd#comment-4554348 , https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-7f55ae71d2#comment-4554350
* changes to fedora_openqa, wiki matrices, and python-wikitcms to fix some issues in wiki reporting of openqa tests: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/fedora_openqa/commit/011220cc41018b433e85a368b374daffd011a2d6 , https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/python-wikitcms/commit/8ca5287e6647ab3cb1f4377843d0cc23a2301c6c

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• fixed pylint installability on #rawhide to fix another compose failure - https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pylint/pull-request/13
• got @nirik@fosstodon.org to put #openqa behind #anubis as it was getting bot-spammed, later realized this has broken developer mode, we'll try and fix that tomorrow
• revised non-English install test case and wiki result matrix to cover KDE and Workstation web UI installs - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/tickets/issues/879#issuecomment-604481
• fixed the web UI Cyrillic install test to be more correct - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/pulls/513

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• figured out why rmdepcheck was misbehaving on epel 9, but fixing it got complicated, will carry on tomorrow - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/rmdepcheck/issues/23#issuecomment-609197
• orphaned some packages the qa team owned and sent out a notification - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/tickets/issues/880#issuecomment-609131 , https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/orphaned-packages-python-aniso8601-python-flask-caching-testcloud-python-pytest-xprocess-python-flask-restful/185856

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• a couple of small #openQA test robustifications - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/413e0ec8 , https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/commit/c7b88eab
• sent a pungi PR to log Koji task IDs for deliverables to aid compose-critical packages script development - https://pagure.io/pungi/pull-request/1900
• sent fix for a testing-farm setup problem which caused issues for podman tests - https://gitlab.com/testing-farm/infrastructure/-/merge_requests/1328
• filed related podman issue - https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/28452
• fixed python-avocado build and resultsdb_api dep - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-d92a583737

2/3

• reviewed lruzicka's screen recording #openqa test a few times - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/pulls/505
• sent a PR to enable desktop_notifications test on updates - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/pulls/515
• noticed rmdepcheck is behaving wrongly on EPEL 9, started looking into why, didn't figure it out yet - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/rmdepcheck/issues/23
• requested an F44 final candidate compose (though it's not really an RC) - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/releng/tickets/issues/13303

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today in #fedora qa:
* reported fmf-tests not reporting results for the f44 beta candidate - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/fmf-tests/issues/6
* did some investigation of the xdg-desktop-portal-gnome failed startup bug (it caused some #openqa test failures) - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2440238#c7
* more work on ELN desktop live tests, it is turning into a bit of a slog - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/fedora_openqa/pulls/122#issuecomment-557253

today in #fedora qa:
* added the checkwiki CI step to os-autoinst-distri-fedora too - https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/os-autoinst-distri-fedora/pulls/497
* tested ai-code-review with #gemini 3.1 pro a bit, works fine, hard to tell if it's better
* sent an MR to make 3.1 pro the default - https://gitlab.com/redhat/edge/ci-cd/ai-code-review/-/merge_requests/76
* started work on testing #eln desktop lives in #openqa - scheduler bits in https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/fedora_openqa/pulls/122 , started work on needle updates, will continue tomorrow