Re: replacing the Startup Disk Creator

[Shubham Rao]

Getting rid of persistence? It's one of the things that make LiveUSBs of
Linux awesome. It would be a step in the backward direction.
On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 at 4:59 PM, Marc Deslauriers <
marc.deslauri...@canonical.com> wrote:

> On 2015-09-19 07:04 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> > Hi Marc,
> >
> > My standard ISP's mail server is down. So I tried to send this mail via
> Google's
> > web mail interface. In my saved version of the mail, there is an
> attachment
> > "SCC-test.ods", size 17692 bytes. I'll try again ...
> >
> > Best regards
> > Nio
> >
>
> That's a very interesting spreadsheet, thanks for doing that. It seems most
> issues are:
>
> - A known bug in udisks that prevents the erase function from working
> reliably
> (LP: #1460602)
>
> - A mismatch between syslinux versions between the host system creating
> the usb
> key and the version being installed (LP: #1325801)
>
> - A limitation of the fix for the syslinux issue that prevents amd64
> images from
> being created on i386 systems (LP: #1446646)
>
>
> I believe a simple way to eliminate every one of these issues at once in
> UDC
> would be to get rid of the persistence functionality. All of the currently
> supported images can now be written directly to a usb device as-is.
>
> The syslinux and boot loader mangling that is currently required for
> persistence
> and used to be required for older end of life releases is a constant
> source of
> problems each time a new release come out and is difficult to get working
> properly on mismatched architectures.
>
> Removing persistence would also simplify the user interface and would
> remove the
> need of having the "Erase Disk" button, therefore eliminating the known
> udisks
> issue as a side effect.
>
> Advanced users who require generating a usb key with persistence can
> simply use
> one of the other tools that are available. Perhaps in the future
> persistence
> could be added back by creating a partition in the free space left over
> after
> copying over the image.
>
> Changing UDC to remove persistence and to copy images as-is is a trivial
> change,
> and I am willing to volunteer to do it.
>
> Marc.
>
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Re: replacing the Startup Disk Creator

[Shubham Rao]

What about media creation from Windows?

On Fri 18 Sep, 2015 6:37 pm NikTh  wrote:

>
> On 18/09/2015 02:34 μμ, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> >
> > I disagree. The incredibly long list of Unetbootin bugs leads me to
> believe it's
> > in a worse state than Startup Disk Creator:
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/unetbootin/+bugs?orderby=-id=0
> >
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unetbootin/+bugs?field.searchtext==-id=0
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=unetbootin
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775689
>
>
> I agree with your disagreement. I consider Unetbootin almost a
> deprecated project. It's not in a good state as regards UEFI systems and
> has more bugs than fixes.
>
>
> > I have no objection to replacing Startup Disk Creator with something
> better, but
> > the replacement would need to at least adhere to the following criteria:
> >
> > 1- Support UEFI
> > 2- Be easy to use (including user testing)
> > 3- Use a modern secure design (backend service that does the minimum
> privileged
> > operations, frontend that supports multiple toolkits, communication over
> dbus
> > and policykit integration)
> > 4- Support udisks for proper hardware integration
> > 5- Be reliable
> > 6- Be written in a language that is maintainable
> > 7- Be of quality enough to pass a MIR (Main inclusion request)
> > 8- Have developers who are willing to commit to supporting it in the
> Ubuntu
> > archive, and for the duration of the LTS releases
> >
>
> I cannot remove or add anything to that list.
> Completely agree.
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Re: *.qa.ubuntu.com is down

[Shubham Rao]

Best of luck

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On 31 October 2014 10:59, Ali Linx ali.li...@amjjawad.net wrote:


 Hi All,

 On 10/31/2014 07:12 AM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:

 The iso, package and hardware trackers along with the site are all down
 and
 with no current ETA. The sites are offline in response to drupalgeddon
 which has affected many drupal sites. The Drupal project recommends
 rebuilding all sites and restoring all drupal instances with a backup from
 before the vulnerability disclosure.

 As such, the sites will be rebuilt and a backup restored. We will need to
 do the work to include the results missing from the backup. It's unclear
 how much data will need to be restored in this way at this time.

 I apologize for the lateness of the email, and I'd like to personally
 thank
 Pasi for filing an RT on the issue this morning. I've been disconnected
 from the internet for a few days and hopped back online as events were
 unfolding.


 Email has been published on Ubuntu Quality Social Media Channels :)


 I will keep you informed as I find out more information.


 I will keep an eye for any update and will help to spread the word :)

  Nicholas


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It's Ubuntu release day and... my birthday!

[Shubham Rao]

Today's my 15th b'day and Ubuntu's day for release of 14.04. Hope Trusty
Tahr is a Tahr-ific release! Congrats to all the people involved in the
quality testing!
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New member from India

[Shubham Rao]

A very good evening and Happy Diwali (festival of lights) to all from
Bhopal, India! Myself Shubham Rao, 14 years, student of 9th grade. I am
fairly new to QA but not to Ubuntu. I've been running it from the 11.10
release. My experience with Ubuntu has been great, and I've been
recommending to all my friends, always advocating its (many
fabulous) advantages over its (slight) disadvantages.

There's not much adoption of Ubuntu here in my city (the only people
running it are considered too techie) and I want to change this from the
next release itself. I want Ubuntu so popular that it should speak for
itself and there should be no need of advocating it. I want trusty to be a
super dooper hit among people and I know that to make it successful, the
only people who can do this are the people who assure Quality!!

Okay now enough of Visionary talk, here what I've done:
Installed trusty-desktop-amd64.iso on VM

Ready to go!!

Hope we have a great testing time

On a lighter note, coincidently, Trusty Tahr gonna get launched on my birth
date!!! so much is at stake for me.

Thank You

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Re: New member from India

[Shubham Rao]

When will the testcases arrive? Its nice to get into semi-robotic mode and
test images!!

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On 3 November 2013 22:28, Alberto Salvia Novella es204904...@gmail.comwrote:

  So lets go! ⛷


 El 03/11/13 17:03, Shubham Rao escribió:

 A very good evening and Happy Diwali (festival of lights) to all from
 Bhopal, India! Myself Shubham Rao, 14 years, student of 9th grade. I am
 fairly new to QA but not to Ubuntu. I've been running it from the 11.10
 release. My experience with Ubuntu has been great, and I've been
 recommending to all my friends, always advocating its (many
 fabulous) advantages over its (slight) disadvantages.

 There's not much adoption of Ubuntu here in my city (the only people
 running it are considered too techie) and I want to change this from the
 next release itself. I want Ubuntu so popular that it should speak for
 itself and there should be no need of advocating it. I want trusty to be a
 super dooper hit among people and I know that to make it successful, the
 only people who can do this are the people who assure Quality!!

  Okay now enough of Visionary talk, here what I've done:
 Installed trusty-desktop-amd64.iso on VM

  Ready to go!!

  Hope we have a great testing time

  On a lighter note, coincidently, Trusty Tahr gonna get launched on my
 birth date!!! so much is at stake for me.

  Thank You

  With Regards,
 *Shubham Rao*






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Re: Workshops for Trusty

[Shubham Rao]

Nice wiki with visual screenshots and diagrams is the best option

On Thursday, October 24, 2013, Javier Lopez wrote:

 I agree with the fact that we should excel at our documentation, I'm not
 particular fondly about videos (since they may be hard to update), however
 a
 nice wiki with plenty of diagrams + screenshots would be wonderful. We
 already
 have channels to ask questions at any time, and the ml is open 24/7.

 In my opinion, however, we could organize some documentation hacktons at
 the
 very beginning of the cycle to verify that our documentation (still) rocks.

 Since many of us have been involved on the team for a while, we could not
 see
 obvious issues with the documentation, therefore I think it could be a
 good idea
 to run some public polls asking for feedback (in parallel?), and organize
 some
 QA sessions, focusing in the aspects we could find in the polls. I'm
 afraid
 that if we just stop creating public sessions we could been seen as a kind
 of
 closed group, let's keep running the extra mile, let's add the extra
 cream, we
 as Ubuntu tend to add.

 In my opinion repeating information is not an issue, if we're also creating
 bridges for new members, I still remember when I attended my first Ubuntu
 meeting and I was very excited because of been able to interact directly
 with my
 Ubuntu heroes.


 On 23/10/13 at 08:26pm, Elfy wrote:
  On 23/10/13 20:10, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
  I agree Jackson it can be hard for folks to attend a seemingly
  random time for the sessions.
  
  Any thoughts on producing these and then allowing folks to get the
  information anytime? Should we make wiki tutorials? Video
  tutorials? Have open question days after releasing the tutorial?
  
  Nicholas
  
  
  
  Just a quick comment on video's - wonderful things if you've got a
  good internet connection ...
 
  /Basically at the beginning of each cycle now for several cycles, we
  as a team take time to host a series of classroom sessions, or
  workshops to instruct people on specific topics./
 
  Given that - why?
 
  Why repeat the same information again and again.
 
  If we did wiki pages for each topic then would we need to do it
  again? I'd think not.
 
  Now - people want to ask questions - ok, why not have an irc channel
  for it - like ubuntu-quality-questions for instance - people idle in
  the normal channel so it's not too hard to idle in another.
 
  Only refer to the new channel on the wiki's so it's only going to be
  found by people actually reading those wiki pages.
 
  Elfy
 
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Getting started with trusty

[Shubham Rao]

I want to get started with ISO testing of trusty. Plz help.

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