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At AlmaLinux, we're dedicated to providing a high-quality experience for our community. We believe that thorough testing is crucial to guaranteeing the quality and reliability of the distribution. We put a lot of effort into testing and making sure everything works smoothly regardless of where or what you run.
New AlmaLinux OS Beta and Stable versions are released every six months. We rely on our community to help us test Beta releases by providing feedback, reporting bugs, and identifying issues. Your input is crucial in ensuring our production releases are smooth and successful and we welcome your participation in this process.
If you're interested in contributing to Beta testing, please, see the installation/upgrade instructions in release notes and join the testing chat channel to stay informed.
AlmaLinux has implemented openQA - a tool created and maintained by SUSE - for the automation of testing. With openQA we set up testing environments and scenarios, making it easier to run tests to reproduce the installation process of our images. This helps us identify and fix any issues with the installer, graphics, branding, and visual defects, allowing our developers to quickly and efficiently test AlmaLinux and catch any problems before they're released to the public.
openQA is publicly available at openqa.almalinux.org and users can monitor the testing progress and see the results as screenshots and video recordings.
We have long-term goals of improving our openQA infrastructure with additional tests and expanding our openQA documentation on our wiki. If you're interested in contributing to openQA, please, see more details on the openQA wiki page and join the testing chat channel to stay updated and involved.
AlmaLinux OS is binary compatible with RHEL® and part ways in some matters. Before releasing an updated package with a patch or security fix, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation invites the community to participate in testing before its official release.
If you're interested in testing, please, join the testing and release engineering chat channels to stay updated and involved.
AlmaLinux offers one project for upgrading your operating system in-place (ELevate), and one for migrating to AlmaLinux (AlmaLinux-deploy)! We're actively working on improving them with the community's help, and invite you to join us.
If you're interested in participating check the Migration wiki section, Migration SIG page and join the Migration SIG chat channel to get involved. You can assist AlmaLinux in:
- Add a 3rd party repository support to the ELevate Project and test it.
- Testing new features and expanding the documentation.
- Identifying and reporting bugs as well as resolving known issues to make the migration process smoother. Bugs should be reported to the corresponding repositories - ELevate leapp repository or AlmaLinux migration tool.
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