Honestly I doubt it would be well-received upstream. We've taken great pains to ensure GNOME OS is distro-neutral, and with nobody actively maintaining the upstream OpenQA tests, adding a second rawhide-based testsuite is a big ask.

Maybe we could share tests, but not the expectations.

Well, one of the main points is to make test sharing more practical. I haven't tested it, but I suspect if you tried to use Fedora's existing GNOME tests on GNOME OS they'd likely fail because font rendering isn't done quite the same and the desktop background is different and the login screen doesn't have a Fedora logo on it and so on.

We'd have a higher chance of running the existing Fedora openQA tests successfully on a nightly-GNOME-on-Rawhide build of some kind.

I haven't tested it, but I suspect if you tried to use Fedora's existing GNOME tests on GNOME OS they'd likely fail because font rendering isn't done quite the same and the desktop background is different and the login screen doesn't have a Fedora logo on it and so on.

That is certain. There's no way we can share expectations.

There's not enough QA manpower upstream to handle two different test environments (GNOME OS plus rawhide). In fact, we have almost no OpenQA tests for GNOME OS: what we have now is more a proof of concept than an actually useful testsuite. Also, upstream gnome-build-meta (where these tests live) has a very strong focus on distro neutrality. I think we want to keep upstream testing focused on freedesktop-sdk.

That doesn't mean this is impossible to do, but that If we want to do this, we'll want to do it downstream. It's hardly impossible for us to build GNOME stuff from nightly git rather than stable tarballs, after all.

There hasn't been much movement on this issue since it was first created. It's a good idea, but would require someone to pick it up and run with it.

Closing for now, but if anyone wants to pursue this initiative, they should feel free to reopen.

This issue has been migrated to Fedora Forge:
https://forge.fedoraproject.org/workstation/tickets/issues/311

Please continue any further discussion there.