Contributing to Ubuntu.
When i logged in my lunchpad account there was a message which mean to say, i can get more cds by contributing to ubuntu. I have joind the locoteam 'Bangladesh team'. But the message is still there. I also want to join testing team but internet connection in my country is too slow. Is there any way for me? On 3/28/10, ubuntu-qa-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: > Send Ubuntu-qa mailing list submissions to > ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > ubuntu-qa-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > ubuntu-qa-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Ubuntu-qa digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >1. Re: Interested in Participating in the testing team > (Varun Thacker) >2. Kernel Regression Bug Days (Jeremy Foshee) >3. Richard Perkins: Helping Out (Richard Perkins) >4. Re: Interested in Participating in the testing team > (Varun Thacker) >5. Re: Richard Perkins: Helping Out (Bruno Girin) >6. Hello. (Gary Mellor) >7. A follow up. (Gary Mellor) >8. Re: A follow up. (J) > > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:24:20 +0530 > From: Varun Thacker > Subject: Re: Interested in Participating in the testing team > To: Nick Brown , ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: > <3f347f5c1003260454g44e028d0jdaadd0d336ec8...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I kind of went through the wiki before writing here.On this url > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing it says to introduce myself on the list.So > what next?Is it easier if i just stay on the irc? > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Nick Brown wrote: > >> Thanks for your interest, please have a look at this: >> http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate >> >> -- >> *From:* Varun Thacker >> *To:* ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com >> *Sent:* Fri, March 26, 2010 3:02:14 AM >> *Subject:* Interested in Participating in the testing team >> >> Hi, >> I am Varun.I have been using ubuntu since 8.04 and am really passionate >> about being part of the community. >> I will be able to dedicate a decent time for testing as I am a student . I >> have a Lenovo R61 laptop on which i will be able to test.I do not have >> anything particular in mind as to what area of testing I want to work on >> but >> I think i will be able to help in most of them. >> >> I want to get involved in the community.Please guide me as to where I can >> be of use. >> >> -- >> >> >> Regards, >> Varun Thacker >> http://varunthacker.wordpress.com >> >> >> >> > > > -- > > > Regards, > Varun Thacker > http://varunthacker.wordpress.com > -- next part -- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-qa/attachments/20100326/50425f28/attachment-0001.htm > > -- > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:06:37 -0400 > From: Jeremy Foshee > Subject: Kernel Regression Bug Days > To: kernel-team > Cc: ubuntu-qa , ubuntu-bugcontrol > ,ubuntu-bugsquad > > Message-ID: <1269615997.24433.299.ca...@jfo-lappy> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi All, > As you can see below, I have instituted a Kernel Bug Day to recur > several times a week until release. [1] The initial notice went out only > to the Kernel Team, but I have finalized the schedule with Pete. The > schedule is aggressive, but I hope it will be productive. > > We will be having Kernel Team regression bug days on: > > Tues March 30, 2010 > Thursday, April 1, 2010 > Monday, April 5, 2010 > Wednesday, April 7, 2010 > Friday, April 9, 2010 > Monday, April 12, 2010 > Wednesday, April 14, 2010 > Friday, April 16, 2010 > Monday, April 19, 2010 > Wednesday, April 21, 2010 > Friday, April 23, 2010 > > > Any help is appreciated. I'd like for us to focus initially on Lucid > regressions, but then to move on into older bugs tagged 'regression-' in > order to address those cases as well. My main concern here is that we > properly address regression bugs and remove the tags for those we > encounter that are either not regressions or are currently solved. > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/KernelBugDay > > Thanks! > > ~JFo > > > >> > On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Jeremy Foshee wrote: >> > >> > > Hi All! >> > > I'd like to officially announce the organization of the Weekly Kernel >> > > Bug Day[1] to address regressions. >> > > >> > > What this means is that we would like for all members of the Ubuntu >> > > Kernel Team as well as the community to focus on regression bugs for >> > > one >> > > day a week up to release. We will then discuss and enhance the Bug Day >> > >
Beta looking good
I installed Beta 1 in a flash drive, using USB creator. I am running on a low'end Dell Vostro A860 laptop. I am not an experienced tester, so I just started building it up to do the things I usually do. I note the bug I reported on the digital clock, which needed root to save, is fixed. I also noted when I changed from Chicago to Mexico City, it cranked back the clock one hour, so they may have added Mexico DST schedule, which is different. NEAT I'll find out later if it kicks it ahead or not as it should, which I am guessing is tonight or next Sunday? Gwenview in 9.10 had a bad CROP function on some computers. That is fixed now. The developer wrote the fix some months ago, and has requested it be shipped to 9.10 users, but this has not happened, which has a negative effect on the acceptance of Gwenview, which otherwise is a nice program. The good news is, I was forced to learn GIMP, and am scanning old photos from the 19th Century which the old people let me scan. I made a text file of functions as I learn them. A bug in digikam in 9.10 meant sometimes I had to try to import photos from my Canon A470, 15 or 20 times until it stopped crashing instantly, then loads in the end, very frustrating. THAT IS FIXED. Thanks to the developers. I use that a lot and my wife hates it when it does that, and I scream insults at my computer. :) I watched a DVD of Nelson Mandela, worked perfectly. Youtube worked okay, except one day I booted and there was no sound. I hit MIXER, and discovered PCM had set itself to zero. Not sure if that is a bug or a glitch. Installed LyX. No time to typeset a book right now, but will in the future. Installed ImageMagick, mogrify worked okay. Nothing failed on anything I did. Sorry I didn't find more bugs, if it has many. Maybe with more practice. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: A follow up.
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:48, Gary Mellor wrote: > I've just checked the activity list for testing and I am interested in > the following test areas: > > [1]. ISO testing (laptop) > [2]. Laptop testing > [3]. General testing (laptop) Cool... get to it ;-) 1: ISO testing is a great and easy way to start, IMHO. Download the isos, put them on disk or on USB sticks and just boot and go. Most of the ISO testing is geared toward testing the ISO itself, and the installer. You'll find test cases here: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com and more specific cases (sometimes) as needed here: http://pairwise.qa.ubuntu.com 2: Laptop testing info can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Laptop It's nice to have as many laptops as possible tested, given the vast differences in hardware across brands, and the fact that laptops can often have a lot of weird "half-chipsets" built into them. Cases like some video cards that may have the GPU from the video card family, but none of the onboard RAM... 3: General testing: My best advice, pick something and try it out and write bugs if it doesnt work. But pick something that's interesting to you, not just something at random. Otherwise, you'll get bored ;-) Good examples: if you like music, then test Rhythmbox a lot... if you like watching DVDs, then try the different codecs, and video players and test that they play DVDs and integrate properly into the desktop. Bugs are filed via Launchpad (http://launchpad.net) and here's an intro to reporting them: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs > I can only test on laptops as I do not have any desktop hardware. Nothing wrong with that... I do all my testing on an Alienware M15x (in virtual machines) and on a Lenovo S-10 netbook. > My 'junker' is a HP 510 with 4GB RAM and an uprated hardrive (7200rpm as > opposed to 5400rpm). This is x86 architecture. Other than the changes > mentioned in terms of RAM and hardrive, everything else is standard. Your junker sounds like mine (4GB, Quad Core i7, 500GB SATAII, etc)... Given the size of your system, you could also do testing in Virtual Machines (look into KVM or VirtualBox). I do a LOT of ISO and Pairwise testing in VMs. It lets me run tests in parallel instead of one at a time. Plus I can create scenarios like multiple hard disks and NICs if I wish. > My 'stable' laptop is a Lenovo G550 with 8GB RAM and a smaller but > faster hardrive (320GB @ 7200rpm as opposed to 500GB @ 5400rpm). Sheesh... you people and your toys ;-) I need to bump mine to 8GB... one of these days, I suppose :) > I'm happy to test on either really but would prefer to do General > Testing on my stable machine and ISO and specific laptop testing on my > junker. Well, remember what I said about virtualbox and KVM (that's kernel-based virtual machine, not keyboard-video-mouse). You can certainly do all sorts of ISO testing that way, in addition to doing it on real hardware. The real hardware tests are always better, as that helps get a bigger spread of hardware tested during any given cycle, but you'll find bugs just as quickly in a VM as you will on bare-metal. Cheers, Jeff -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
A follow up.
Hi I've just checked the activity list for testing and I am interested in the following test areas: [1]. ISO testing (laptop) [2]. Laptop testing [3]. General testing (laptop) I can only test on laptops as I do not have any desktop hardware. My 'junker' is a HP 510 with 4GB RAM and an uprated hardrive (7200rpm as opposed to 5400rpm). This is x86 architecture. Other than the changes mentioned in terms of RAM and hardrive, everything else is standard. My 'stable' laptop is a Lenovo G550 with 8GB RAM and a smaller but faster hardrive (320GB @ 7200rpm as opposed to 500GB @ 5400rpm). I'm happy to test on either really but would prefer to do General Testing on my stable machine and ISO and specific laptop testing on my junker. Regards Gary. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Hello.
Hello everyone My name is Gary Mellor and I am very interested in testing Ubuntu and being part of the community. I am a professional software tester with around 8 years of experience. I have been using Ubuntu on my personal laptop for around 6-8 months. On my one laptop I have Karmic (64-bit) and on my 'junker' laptop I have Lucid Beta 1 (32-bit). I have very limited experience of Linux, having predominantly tested on various Windows OS, but I'm learning all the time. I would love to help test in any way I can and have subscribed to the email digest, and signed the code of conduct. I can dedicate some evenings and weekends to this end and would love to play my part in shaping Ubuntu. I'm going to take a look at the activity list shortly but if anyone has anything they would like me to look at then please do get in touch. Best regards Gary. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
