Adam Williamson

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

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:
* 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

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:
* 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:
* 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

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

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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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/