Next Release of Checkbox (2016-12-12 Release Candidate) available in Testing PPA

[Pierre Equoy]

Hello all,

a new (and hopefully the last for this release!) update has been pushed to
the Testing PPA.

This time, it's checkbox-ng (v0.30.0rc3), with a new option in the [ui]
section of the launchers. You can now use the value `hide-automated` for
the `output` parameter in your launcher, like:

[ui]
output = hide-automated

This will hide the output of all the automated jobs ('shell', 'local',
'resource', 'attachment' ones), but will still show the output of manual,
user-verify or user-interact jobs. This is useful to still provide
meaningful feedback for human testers without drowning them in technical
output.

As said, this new version is already available in the Testing PPA.

Happy testing!

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Pierre Equoy <pierre.equoy at canonical.com>
wrote:

> All right! The release candidates train is going on, and today Jerry found
> an issue in the initial fix for  lp:1636060
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/plainbox-provider-checkbox/+bug/1636060>.
>
> A new version of  *plainbox-provider-resource-generic* (v0.30.0rc2) and
> *plainbox-provider-checkbox* (v0.33.0rc2) have been released in the
> Testing PPA.
>
> Now, some graphics jobs should properly be filtered out when using a
> device with an amdgpu discrete GPU (see the link above for more
> information).
>
> Since this also has an impact on CDTS, a new release of CDTS will be
> prepared (probably tomorrow).
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Pierre Equoy <pierre.equoy at canonical.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> new day, new release candidate!
>>
>> This time it's to fix an urgent issue in our parser in order to provide
>> more information for snaps.
>>
>> *checkbox-support v0.29.0rc2* has been released to fix lp:1647670
>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/checkbox-support/+bug/1647670>.
>>
>> It is available in the Testing PPA.
>>
>> The other packages are unchanged.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Pierre Equoy <pierre.equoy at canonical.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> Yesterday we discovered an issue with Checkbox-ng that prevented
>>> Checkbox Converged from being open. For more information, see lp:1647264
>>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/checkbox-ng/+bug/1647264>.
>>>
>>> This has been fixed and a new version of Checkbox-ng (0.30.0rc2) has
>>> been pushed in the Testing PPA.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Pierre Equoy <
>>> pierre.equoy at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all!
>>>>
>>>> The next release of Checkbox is available in the testing PPA:
>>>> https://code.launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev/+archive/testing
>>>> <https://code.launchpad.net/%7Echeckbox-dev/+archive/testing>
>>>>
>>>> Please help testing this version. If everything is OK, we plan to push
>>>> this version to stable around December 12th.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *New feature*
>>>> Along with other changes described below, an important change for the
>>>> QA team is the modification of graphics tests to check amdgpu-driven cards
>>>> in a more suitable way.
>>>>
>>>> With the new version of the Checkbox provider, if the tested device is
>>>> using a discrete GPU using amdgpu drivers, some of the graphics tests will
>>>> be skipped because they don't need to be run again. Namely, compiz-related
>>>> tests (desktop display, screen rotation, etc.) are usually run by the
>>>> integrated GPU. Since amdgpu drivers allow offloading GPU (i.e. activating
>>>> the discrete GPU only for one given program), it is not necessary to run
>>>> those compiz jobs on the discrete GPU as well.
>>>>
>>>> This is different from, say, nvidia drivers that require to manually
>>>> switch to the discrete GPU then restart the session (in this case, compiz
>>>> jobs need to be run on the discrete GPU as well).
>>>>
>>>> For more information, please check lp:1636060
>>>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/plainbox-provider-checkbox/+bug/1636060>
>>>> or ask me directly :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Changelog*
>>>>
>>>> *Checkbox Converged 1.6*
>>>> #1452594 The project should be renamed to checkbox-converged
>>>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1452594>
>>>>
>>>> *Next Generation Checkbox (CLI) 0.30*
>>>> #1634224 Forcing no test selection should not also require a defined
>>>> unit <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1634224>
>>>> #1634231 hide output launcher option doesn't hide output
>>>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1634231>
>>>> #1639207 Rerun screens should not be activated when there's no tty
>>>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1639207>
>>>> #1642003 local .conf should override launcher defaults
>>>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1642003>
>>>> #1635630 checkbox-cli run uses args as pattern with auto globbing
>>>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1635630>
>>>> #1625884 Job description should not be shown when the job is skipped
>>>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1625884>
>>>>
>>>> *Provider for Plainbox - Canonical Certification Server 0.30*
>>>> #1631099 Time to remove the old storage test
>>>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1631099>
>>>>
>>>> *Provider for Plainbox - Checkbox 0.33*
>>>> #1636060 compiz jobs only need to be run once when using amdgpu drivers
>>>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1636060>
>>>>
>>>> *Provider for Plainbox - Resource 0.30*
>>>> #1581474 80211 resource binary will crash on 16.04
>>>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1581474>
>>>>
>>>> *Provider for Plainbox - TPM2 1.1*
>>>> New release taking into account latest changes from upstream sources.
>>>>
>>>> *FWTS 16.11*
>>>> Complete changelog
>>>> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/16.11.00>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Pierre Equoy
>>>> QA & Certification Engineer | Canonical
>>>> www.canonical.com | www.ubuntu.com
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Pierre Equoy
>>> QA & Certification Engineer | Canonical
>>> www.canonical.com | www.ubuntu.com
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Pierre Equoy
>> QA & Certification Engineer | Canonical
>> www.canonical.com | www.ubuntu.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Pierre Equoy
> QA & Certification Engineer | Canonical
> www.canonical.com | www.ubuntu.com
>



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Pierre Equoy
QA & Certification Engineer | Canonical
www.canonical.com | www.ubuntu.com