Thank you for the request, we are continuing to define the proventester process. I will leave your ticket open until someone from the QA team can act on the request and provide test guidance. Stay tuned, and feel free to take part in the discussion at test@lists.fedoraproject.org

Greetings Mike,

I'll be happy to sponsor you into the proventesters group. Please take a moment to read through the [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Proven_tester proventester instructions]. As a proventester, our job isn't to exhaustively find all defects in a software update. The focus is to determine whether the proposed software update negatively impacts core system functionality. Pay particular attention to the documented feedback procedures.

Once you have read the instructions, please confirm that you ...
1. have read and understand the instructions, and intend to follow the instructions when testing Fedora critical path updates
2. understand how to enable the update-testing repository
3. are familiar with providing test feedback using either the [http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi web interface], or the [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Easy_Karma fedora-easy-karma utility]

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Once I hear back, I'll sponsor your membership in the proventesters group.

Replying to [comment:2 jlaska]:

Greetings Mike,

I'll be happy to sponsor you into the proventesters group. Please take a moment to read through the [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Proven_tester proventester instructions]. As a proventester, our job isn't to exhaustively find all defects in a software update. The focus is to determine whether the proposed software update negatively impacts core system functionality. Pay particular attention to the documented feedback procedures.

Once you have read the instructions, please confirm that you ...
1. have read and understand the instructions, and intend to follow the instructions when testing Fedora critical path updates
2. understand how to enable the update-testing repository
3. are familiar with providing test feedback using either the [http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/ Bodhi web interface], or the [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Easy_Karma fedora-easy-karma utility]

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Once I hear back, I'll sponsor your membership in the proventesters group.

Dear James

Thank you for the offer to sponsor me. I have read and understood the prove_tester instructions at the Fedora Wiki, and have been using the updates-testing repo enabled for a significant number of tests of pre-release packages since the earliest days of Fedora (since FC1). I am also familiar with the process to add karma and comments to tested packages via bodhi, though I have not explicitely used the fedora-easy-karma facility yet.

I have been following the debate on establishing the proventester group with interest, and am happy with the process. I look forward to helping in the QA effort with Fedora package testing including critpath packages, and at present have Fedora 12 and 13 running on several machines.

Mike

Thanks Mike. I have sponsored your request. Welcome to proventesters and happy testing!