Red Hat Turns Over Testing Tools To Fedora–For Now

I am not even going to comment on this. I will say however, that this should have happened some time ago. It’s been long enough.

Red Hat is on track to ship its Enterprise Linux 5 by the end of the year but certification, testing and standardizing the testing process have become more important to customers than the operating system, its CEO said.

At Red Hat Summit in Nashville, Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik said Fedora Core 6 — the open source precursor to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 — is due out in September and that the company remains on track for “end-of-year” delivery of the commercial product.

Still, Szulik said little about RHEL5 at the summit. Instead, he focused the spotlight on a series of new open source projects underway at the company including its “Dogtail” testing tool, a new open source social networking service dubbed “Mugshot” and new 108 portal for developers.

“Dogtail” and “Autobuild” are just two automated certification and testing tools Red Hat will hand over to customers and partners as a way of standardizing the testing process and building consistent, high quality Linux infrastructures, the CEO said.

Initially it will be offered to customers as part of Fedora but could become a commercial value-added service in the future, Szulik said…. Source: InformationWeek

[tags]certification,red hat,fedora,testing tools[/tags]