Call For Testing: Lucid and Maverick Firefox users (or willing to install Lucid or Maverick in a VM)
We need Lucid and Maverick users to test our latest Firefox Upgrade! *Background:* The upstream Mozilla Firefox web browser has moved to a rapid release cycle. New Firefox versions are being released every six weeks and contain new features and security enhancements. Until now, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 10.10 have been getting 3.6 point releases of Firefox. As such, users have not been benefiting from new features, support for new web technologies, security enhancements, and performance improvements. Firefox 3.6 will be reaching its end of life soon, so we need to migrate users to the rapid release so that they will continue to receive security updates in a timely fashion. See [1] for more information. Before releasing these updates to the public, we need testing of the following packages: * firefox * xul-ext-webfav * xul-ext-mozvoikko * gecko-mediaplayer * moonlight-plugin-core These updates are currently in lucid-proposed and maverick-proposed. Please keep in mind, that lucid-proposed or maverick-proposed might get you a lot of other extra packages as well. We need people running Lucid or Maverick in bare metal or a virtual machine. If you are willing to help, here's what you can do: First, enable the Lucid or Maverick proposed repository [2]. Then, you can either run update-manager or 'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'. If you find a bug in these packages, please file a new bug with the issue and if it's a regression, please comment in bug 904594 [3]. Feel free to subscribe to bug 904594 [3] to follow the progress, but be forewarned that you will probably get a lot of E-Mail from it. Please note, packages need to be tested to migrate to lucid-updates or maverick-updates. There is a short functional test plan after the links. These are for people that would like to do one time testing rather than just running the proposed packages for their normal workflow. Thanks to everyone in advance, Micah [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-January/001544.html [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/904594 Test Plan (for functional testing): 1. Create a new profile (firefox -P) (optional except for certificate test) 2. test save an image, does dialog appear et al? 3. test bookmarks: can you drag/drop bookmarks (in manager and in UI - e.g. from toolbar to menu et al)? 4. test password manager: * are passwords properly pre-filled when previously remembered? * are credentials of new sites properly remembered as well (test in same browser session and with browser restarted) 5. test plugins (flash, java) 6. test javascript: use AJAX sites like: new mail.yahoo.com, gmail.com, maps.google.com et al. 7. test https site (https://www.launchpad.net) 8. test certificate support: * ensure that https://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=1 gives you a certificate warning (e.g. by removing previously imported certificate from trust db in Preferences -> Advanced -> Encryption -> View Certificates) * open http://www.cacert.org/certs/root.crt ... are you asked to import? if so do import and select "Trust this CA to identify websites" * after that visiting https://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=1 should not give you a warning anymore 9. test gnome support: * Use Image as Background * Change Preferred Application (Mail-- in Gnome, set in System/Preferences/Preferred Applications) -- Micah Gersten Ubuntu Security Team -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: Call For Testing: Natty Firefox users (or willing to install Natty in a VM)
On 06/17/2011 05:59 PM, Micah Gersten wrote: > > We need Natty users to test our latest Firefox Upgrade! > > *Background:* > Firefox 4 will not receive any more point releases, but rather Firefox > 5 is the security update for Firefox 4.0.1. Upstream Mozilla has > changed their release process and are using a rapid release schedule. > We will be following this new release schedule to continue to deliver > a secure browsing experience to our users. > > Since Natty has Firefox 4, it will start this process immediately. > Lucid and Maverick which are on 3.6.x will be transitioning to the new > rapid release cycle once 3.6.x has reached end of life. > > Before releasing these updates to the public, we need testing of the > following packages: > > * firefox > * xul-ext-webfav > * xul-ext-mozvoikko > * xul-ext-bindwood > * gecko-mediaplayer > * moonlight-plugin-core > > We have published all these packages in a PPA [1], and, for your > convenience, have copied these updates to natty-proposed. You can > either enable the Ubuntu Mozilla Security PPA (instructions to follow) > or natty-proposed. Please keep in mind, that natty-proposed might get > you a lot of other extra packages as well. > > We need people running Natty in bare metal or a virtual machine. If > you are willing to help, here's what you can do: > > Add the Ubuntu Mozilla Security PPA to your software sources: > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa > or > enable natty-proposed > > Then, you can either run update-manager or: > sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > > Since there are very few packages, we are tracking this transition in > bug 798484 [2]. I have added verification-needed-* tags for each of > the packages that need testing. If you find a bug, please file a new > bug with all the details, then, comment with the bug # and the > affected package name in the tracking bug [2]. If you see the > verification-needed-* tag for a specific package, feel free to comment > if you have tested the package and it works. If you see a > verification-done-* tag for a specific package, there is no need to > comment that it works, but more testing is always appreciated.If > you see a verification-failed-* tag for a specific package, please > check if your bug has already been filed, if not, please file one with > all the details and comment in the tracking bug with the bug # and the > package name. > > Feel free to subscribe to this bug [2] to follow the progress, but be > forewarned that you will probably get a lot of E-Mail from it. > > Please note, packages need to be tested to migrate to natty-security > and natty-updates. > > Thanks to everyone in advance, > Micah > > [1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ppa > <https://edge.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ppa> > [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798484 > > P.S. The current final Firefox 5 build and moon are currently > finishing building on armel and will be copied to natty-proposed over > the weekend. The other architectures' packages are available in the > Ubuntu Mozilla Security PPA. > -- > Micah Gersten > Ubuntu Security Team I want to apologize for leaving out this piece of information. If you're testing in natty-proposed everything is fine. If you're testing from the Ubuntu Mozilla Security PPA, anything that requires a language pack will fail. This is due to us switching to in source Firefox language packs. natty-proposed contains updated system language packs which pull in the appropriate language pack from the firefox source. Thank you, Micah -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Call For Testing: Natty Firefox users (or willing to install Natty in a VM)
We need Natty users to test our latest Firefox Upgrade! *Background:* Firefox 4 will not receive any more point releases, but rather Firefox 5 is the security update for Firefox 4.0.1. Upstream Mozilla has changed their release process and are using a rapid release schedule. We will be following this new release schedule to continue to deliver a secure browsing experience to our users. Since Natty has Firefox 4, it will start this process immediately. Lucid and Maverick which are on 3.6.x will be transitioning to the new rapid release cycle once 3.6.x has reached end of life. Before releasing these updates to the public, we need testing of the following packages: * firefox * xul-ext-webfav * xul-ext-mozvoikko * xul-ext-bindwood * gecko-mediaplayer * moonlight-plugin-core We have published all these packages in a PPA [1], and, for your convenience, have copied these updates to natty-proposed. You can either enable the Ubuntu Mozilla Security PPA (instructions to follow) or natty-proposed. Please keep in mind, that natty-proposed might get you a lot of other extra packages as well. We need people running Natty in bare metal or a virtual machine. If you are willing to help, here's what you can do: Add the Ubuntu Mozilla Security PPA to your software sources: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa or enable natty-proposed Then, you can either run update-manager or: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Since there are very few packages, we are tracking this transition in bug 798484 [2]. I have added verification-needed-* tags for each of the packages that need testing. If you find a bug, please file a new bug with all the details, then, comment with the bug # and the affected package name in the tracking bug [2]. If you see the verification-needed-* tag for a specific package, feel free to comment if you have tested the package and it works. If you see a verification-done-* tag for a specific package, there is no need to comment that it works, but more testing is always appreciated.If you see a verification-failed-* tag for a specific package, please check if your bug has already been filed, if not, please file one with all the details and comment in the tracking bug with the bug # and the package name. Feel free to subscribe to this bug [2] to follow the progress, but be forewarned that you will probably get a lot of E-Mail from it. Please note, packages need to be tested to migrate to natty-security and natty-updates. Thanks to everyone in advance, Micah [1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ppa <https://edge.launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ppa> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798484 P.S. The current final Firefox 5 build and moon are currently finishing building on armel and will be copied to natty-proposed over the weekend. The other architectures' packages are available in the Ubuntu Mozilla Security PPA. -- Micah Gersten Ubuntu Security Team -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
Re: New Ubuntu QA Website!
On 09/22/2010 02:55 AM, Ara Pulido wrote: > On 22/09/10 08:31, Ara Pulido wrote: > > On 22/09/10 06:22, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: >>> Hi, >>> The Sponsoring Overview [1] page seems to have been lost in the >>> transition. It now redirects to a blank page. [2] I have reported a >>> bug against the Ubuntu QA Website Launchpad project. [3] >>> >>> I hope this gets worked out soon. It's very unfortunate at this point >>> in the cycle. As a work around, use LP bugs with ~ubuntu-sponsors >>> subscribed. [4] I can't find a full aggregate of merge request, but >>> between the +activereviews pages for ~ubuntu-sponsors [5] and >>> ~ubuntu-dev [6] we should have it pretty well covered. >> Thanks for reporting this. Indeed, this is pretty urgent. >> We will fix it ASAP. > The reports redirections are now fixed. The CSS is not working correctly > yet, we are working on it. But at least the information is there. > > Cheers, > Ara. > Thanks for fixing that. The sponsoring page is still broken though which I filed as bug 636692. Micah -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
