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Hellen Chemtai: Debian Images Testing with OpenQA Outreachy Internship

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Hello there . I am a software developer and tester. Some of my interests include bash scripting , website full-stack development and also open source software contribution.

Outreachy is dedicated to the open source community. The OpenQA community in itself had the right project I wanted to contribute to. It was a really great match for my interests and skills. The project is Debian Images testing with OpenQA.

The contribution period was very intense. It was a learning phase at first. I made adjustments to my computer to ensure it would handle the tasks. I also had many trials , failures and problem solving to do. There was a lot of questions asked. My mentors were really helpful.

What worked for me in the end was:

  1. Communicating in the social network with fellow contributors and helping out whenever they got stuck.
  2. Writing the small steps I made during the contribution period, from dual booting to all errors encountered and the ways I solved them in a google docs application.
  3. The small steps I made and the word application were then added to the list of contributions I made.
  4. I also wrote and edited the main application in small phases and was detailed on my experiences
  5. Last but not least I did work on my first task. It was speech testing and capturing all audio. I got a lot help from the mentors through out the process.

Every week is a learning phase to me. I encounter newer issues , lets say my latest issue was connecting the Virtual Machine to a newer Wi-Fi network. It took a whole day to get a solution but I eventually solved it. I regularly share my issues and write the solutions so that it would be helpful to anyone in the future.

By the end of the internship period, I hope to have contributed to the Debian OpenQA Open Source community.This is by working on the tasks and working with the Opensuse broader community on any issues. I want to build a network with my mentors: Philip, Tassia, Roland and other mentors in the community in order to create future opportunities for contributions, mentoring and just general communication.