Stopping the Ubuntu Friendly Meeting

2012-05-28 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello, I have canceled the Ubuntu Friendly meeting going forward (I have already updated the Fridge calendar to reflect this). I think it makes more sense at this point to integrate any potential topics into the general Ubuntu QA meeting. Do we agree? Also, I am thinking about removing the

Ubuntu Friendly session in the Ubuntu Open Week

2011-10-13 Thread Ara Pulido
Hey! Just in case you didn't know, Daniel Manrique is giving a session about Ubuntu Friendly in the Ubuntu Open Week next week on Tuesday: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek/ So, if you want to know more about Ubuntu Friendly [1] and how to participate in the programme testing your

Ubuntu Friendly Squad

2011-05-30 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello, Some weeks ago we announced the Ubuntu Friendly programme [1], a new community driven HW validation programme. We had at UDS a couple of sessions about it and we were very happy to see that a lot of people were interested in participating. I am happy to announce today that we have created

Re: Tablets!

2011-03-25 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello Grant, On 03/25/2011 02:20 AM, Grant Bowman wrote: Greetings community, I was helping a friend install Natty on a ExoPC tablet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExoPC two weeks ago but found the lack of specific information a little frustrating. Has anyone considered creating

Meeting notes 2010/11/03 (and meeting today at 19UTC!)

2010-11-10 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all, Sorry for being late with the notes. == SRU Testing (jibel) == * Over the past 2 weeks 187 packages have been published to stable releases. The complete report can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/SRUReports/2010-11-03 * There was a discussion about including SRU testing

Re: Introduction Andree Wille

2010-11-04 Thread Ara Pulido
On 04/11/10 13:26, Andree Wille wrote: Hi, i'm Andree Wille from Hamburg, Germany. I'm working as a software tester (testing rest web services, web applications and mobile applications). Great, welcome! I subscribed to this list to learn more about the qa ubuntu team and how the team

Meeting tomorrow at 17UTC

2010-11-02 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all, Tomorrow meeting will be at #ubuntu-quality at 17UTC. Please, be careful, as if you live in a country that just finished the summer daylight savings, that means that the meeting will be an hour earlier (your local time). That's because our meeting times are always related to UTC (no

Improving Communication Feedback Report

2010-10-06 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all! During UDS Maverick we had a session about improving the communication channels in the Ubuntu QA team. It was more about improving processes, and using better and more often the channels that we already had. Now that the Maverick cycle is finishing is time to look back and see what

Re: Ubuntu-qa Digest, Vol 36, Issue 1

2010-10-05 Thread Ara Pulido
On 02/10/10 03:04, Sujith S wrote: Hi Friends, I am new to Ubuntu testing community.My name is Sujith S.I have been using ubuntu for past 8 months. I am very much intrested to be a part of Ubuntu Testing team.I am actually working in the field of testing so I think I can

Chairing the QA meeting

2010-10-04 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all, I have put a small wiki page with instructions that you may find useful in case you are a usual chair of the QA meeting or you plan to be: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/Chairing Cheers! Ara. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Mandatory / Optional testcases

2010-09-30 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all! This email is about the way we manage testcases during milestone release testing cycles (also known as ISO testing). If you don't have experience with ISO testing you can read the documentation [1]. *A bit of background* From Beta milestone, onwards, the release team requires the

Improving communication (Call for feedback)

2010-09-30 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all! During UDS Maverick, we had a session about how to improve communication in the Ubuntu QA team. In this cycle we have introduced a rotation in the meeting times to accommodate people in the different time zones. We also rotate the chair so it is less painful to send the notes on a

Re: Call For Testing: Upgrades to Unity

2010-09-28 Thread Ara Pulido
On 27/09/10 19:31, Martin Webster wrote: On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 08:22 +0200, Ara Pulido wrote: I've taken the plunge this evening on my HP Mini 5102 running 10.04 UNE. The upgrade stalled part way through the installation stage and required a restart (after 2 hours of inactivity.) I

RC Week!

2010-09-27 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello guys!! As you may already know, this week is Maverick Release Candidate week! Maverick last milestone before its final release, is going to be released this Thursday. Hopefully, tomorrow we will start seeing the first candidate images in our ISO tracker [1]. Please, prepare yourself by

New Ubuntu QA Website!

2010-09-21 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all! I am pleased to announce a new Ubuntu QA website! http://qa.ubuntu.com This site replaces the old static HTML and will make updating the contents much easier. The new site is a Wordpress instance that syndicates the Ubuntu QA blogs. If you want your site to be added, please,

Re: Ubiquity 2.3.18 Pairwise Testing ( Wubi!)

2010-09-20 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello, On 18/09/10 15:55, Charlie Kravetz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:56:46 +0200 Ara Pulido a...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hello! On 16/09/10 13:26, Ara Pulido wrote: Hello again, Due to a major bug in ubiquity 2.3.18 [1] we need to hold

Re: Ubiquity 2.3.18 Pairwise Testing ( Wubi!)

2010-09-17 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello! On 16/09/10 13:26, Ara Pulido wrote: Hello again, Due to a major bug in ubiquity 2.3.18 [1] we need to hold the pairwise testing until Evan uploads a new ubiquity and generate new ISOs. I have set the builds in the pairwise tracker [2] as rebuilding to avoid confusion. I

Ubiquity 2.3.18 Pairwise Testing ( Wubi!)

2010-09-16 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all, As you know, in two weeks is Maverick RC and we will testing the ISOs in a classic milestone testing cycle. But, before that, and to avoid classic last minute problems with ubiquity, we are going to have a Pairwise Ubiquity Testing Cycle starting just now! What is this? We have

Re: Ubiquity 2.3.18 Pairwise Testing ( Wubi!)

2010-09-16 Thread Ara Pulido
, this bug was a great example of why testing ubiquity prior to a milestone testing cycle is a good idea ;-) Cheers, Ara. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/640341 [2] http://pairwise.qa.ubuntu.com On 16/09/10 12:08, Ara Pulido wrote: Hello all, As you know, in two

Re: Testing Community Contributions

2010-09-14 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello! On 13/09/10 22:04, Chris Johnston wrote: Greetings, With the release of the new Ubuntu.com website design [0] it is the desire of the Community Team to rewrite the Community page on the website [1]. I already have new information written for some of the areas to contribute to the

Re: LoCo Testing Team

2010-09-03 Thread Ara Pulido
On 02/09/10 13:09, Paolo Sammicheli wrote: Hi everybody, I finally completed the wiki page about the Italian experience in ISO Testing: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/LoCoTeam I would really love if other LoCos would like to start ISO TESTING contributing in making Ubuntu

Re: Need new Kubuntu test case

2010-09-03 Thread Ara Pulido
On 02/09/10 17:34, Scott Kitterman wrote: We are currently missing a test case for the Guided option for the Kubuntu live images. This will probably be renamed, but that's what it's called for now. It replaces the existing O/S install in a partition with a new one. Indeed, we need to

Re: Hello

2010-07-22 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello Aarthy! El 20/07/10 15:30, Aarthy Elangovan escribió: Hello My Name is Aarthy.I am doing my Masters in computer science.I joined in Testing team recently.I have been using ubuntu for a while.I like to contribute to ubuntu through Testing . I am happy to be part of the team. Please,

Re: Hello

2010-07-22 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello! El 22/07/10 15:10, Ragavendra Ganesh escribió: Hi Ara Pulido, I Would like to join the testing team especially http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Applications. Please let me know the procedure to proceed with same. In two weeks time we are releasing Ubuntu Maverick Alpha 3. That time

No meeting today

2010-07-21 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all, Due to many of us being in Prague in a conference, we are not having a meeting today. I have updated the wiki page to reflect the next meeting, that will happen July 28th at 17:00. Dave Murphy (schwuk) will be the chair if I recall correctly. Cheers, Ara. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list

Re: mago-applications launchpad team

2010-06-28 Thread Ara Pulido
On 25/06/10 18:41, Jeff Lane wrote: Hey, as part of an effort to expand Mago a bit by adding nautilus, I created a launchpad team called mago-applications. It was created to let people interested in adding new applications to Mago collaborate on the same code bases without cluttering up

Jaunty users also needed (was Re: Call For Testing: Karmic Firefox users)

2010-06-23 Thread Ara Pulido
On 17/06/10 13:40, Ara Pulido wrote: We need Karmic users to test our latest Firefox Upgrade! Jaunty packages are now available in the PPA and in the tracker [1]. Please, check the testing instructions at the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Firefox3.6.4Upgrade Please, take

Call For Testing: Karmic Firefox users (or willing to install Karmic in a VM)

2010-06-17 Thread Ara Pulido
We need Karmic users to test our latest Firefox Upgrade! *Background* As I wrote in a previous email[1], Firefox 3.0 and xulrunner 1.9 are now unsupported by Mozilla. We are going to release Firefox 3.6.4 as a minor update to the 3.6 series in Lucid. This will also be rolled out to Hardy, Jaunty

Meeting today at 19:00UTC in #ubuntu-quality

2010-06-09 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello! Just a quick reminder that we are having our meeting in about 10 minutes at #ubuntu-quality. Cheers, Ara. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa

Re: start QA

2010-06-04 Thread Ara Pulido
On 06/02/2010 09:44 PM, Victor De Leon wrote: Hi Team: I am interested in the Feature Testing, Application Testing and i would like to lear about automated testing. What i can do to start working on this team??. Hello Victor! First of all you would need to run the development version of

IMPORTANT: New meeting times and location!

2010-06-04 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all, I am happy to announce that we can finally rotate the meeting hours to accommodate as much people as possible. The final meeting hours are Wednesdays 17:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC, in a biweekly rotation. *Next week it is the first week we are having the meeting at 19:00 UTC* and the

Alpha 1 ISO Testing!

2010-06-01 Thread Ara Pulido
Hi everyone! As Martin Pitt announced, Maverick main archive is frozen for Alpha 1. As usual we'll be asking everyone on the QA team to participate in the image testing to ensure we have good test coverage. Due to a critical kernel bug [1], we won't be having desktop images for Alpha 1, but we

Testing Desktop and UNE

2010-05-26 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all! Just in case you missed it from Planet Ubuntu, Rick Spencer (Desktop Manager), just wrote a nice blog post about what will be new in Maverick in the Desktop and UNE. http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2010/05/track-desktop-and-une-in-maverick.html This is very good to know to be able

Re: Testing/Laptop

2010-05-25 Thread Ara Pulido
On 05/21/2010 09:42 PM, Martin Webster wrote: Hello, I'd like to contribute to the Laptop Testing Project. This is just a quick note to say hi. I can test the following laptops: * HP Mini 5102 * HP Compaq nx 6125 (while it lasts) * Toshiba Satellite L300-1AP I've followed the

Improving IRC QA Meetings

2010-05-18 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all! During UDS Maverick we had a discussion about how to improve QA team communication. The results of that discussions can now be found at the wiki, in the form of a specification [1]. One of the main topics was QA IRC meetings. As you all know, we've been having our meetings every

Re: Introduction

2010-05-05 Thread Ara Pulido
On 04/27/2010 03:56 PM, Jeremy Di Salvo wrote: Greetings all, I'm Jeremy Di Salvo and I'm a college student in California majoring in Mechanical Aerospace Science/Engineering. I am currently going to a Community College to get my lower division stuff done. I use Ubuntu for practically

Re: Hello

2010-04-28 Thread Ara Pulido
On 04/28/2010 03:39 AM, Ryan Scheideman wrote: Hi there All, I have signed up the launchpad and the project of QA. How can i help with this? Hello Ryan! As you can see in the wiki [1], the main two entry points are the Bugsquad [2] and the Testing Team. Please, have a look to their

Re: Hello

2010-04-28 Thread Ara Pulido
On 04/27/2010 02:14 PM, Nicolas Hennion wrote: Good moringi to the Ubuntu community. I am Nicolargo a french blogger (http://blog.nicolargo) talking about free softwares. I use Ubuntu for work and on my personal PC. I plan to test latest version of this great OS on new hardware (laptop and

Structured Testing Programs

2010-04-26 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all, During the Lucid development cycle we run a testing program for proprietary graphic drivers and their integration with Ubuntu. Details of the program can be found at the wiki [1]. Feedback from participants [2] was very positive and some of them are even willing to organize similar

QA track at UDS-M

2010-04-23 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all, As usual, there will be a QA track in next UDS. If you're attending (either locally or remotely) you're welcome to propose a session. To schedule a session you need to register a blueprint. In the wiki there is a nice guide on how to register blueprints and propose them for UDS-M [1].

Re: Fwd: Ubuntu QA Tracker: New build notification [20100416]

2010-04-20 Thread Ara Pulido
That seems to be an outdated build. We are testing 20100419.1 Please, go the the tracker [1] to check what needs testing. Thanks! Ara. [1] http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com On 04/17/2010 04:14 AM, Glen Ditchfield wrote: The new build notification contains a link for Kubuntu Desktop i386 that leads

Lucid RC next week! Prepare your ISOS :-)

2010-04-16 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello folks, This is a quick reminder that next week is ISO testing week! Lucid RC is going to be released on Thursday 22nd of April and, as usual, we need to test the ISOs to make sure that installation and functionality are working correctly. Please, sync your ISOs over the weekend, so you

Re: Quick Feedback from a Beta Tester

2010-04-15 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello Jordan, On 04/15/2010 06:21 AM, Jordan Parker wrote: Ubuntu QA List- First off, I'd like to say that if I'm posting this in the wrong place, please let me know. I'd like to provide some beta-testing feedback. I'm a reasonably adept user and I've been familiar with/using ubuntu

Help needed: Lucid Beta 2 ISO Testing

2010-04-06 Thread Ara Pulido
Hi everyone! As Steve Langasek announced, Lucid archive is frozen for Beta 2. As usual we'll be asking everyone on the QA team to participate in the image testing to ensure we have good test coverage. The procedures for testing ISO images and reporting results are explained on

Accerciser+Mago project as Google Summer of Code

2010-03-26 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello guys, Ubuntu has been selected by Google as part of their Google Summer of Code. I have proposed an idea [1] about creating an Accerciser [2] plugin to generate Mago [3] wrappers for applications. If you are a full time student and want to be part of this, please, have a look to the

Re: HI

2010-03-25 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello Raja On 03/25/2010 10:58 AM, raja good wrote: I am raja sekher reddy.g from india. i have some good skills in the python .i would like to become as one of the ubuntu developer. This is the best place to start: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/GettingStarted Cheers, Ara. -- Ubuntu-qa

Fwd: Re: Fwd: Re: Hi from Minneapolis

2010-03-24 Thread Ara Pulido
Forwarding Michael's reply to the list for completeness. Cheers, Ara. Original Message Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Hi from Minneapolis Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:43:03 +0100 From: Michael Vogt m...@ubuntu.com To: glenn opdycke-hansen glenn...@gmail.com CC: Ara Pulido ara.pul

A couple of ubiquity uploads to test

2010-03-24 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all, It's been less than a week since Lucid Beta 1 was released and there have already been two more ubiquity uploads. The installer team is working hard! I have publish Ubiquity 2.2.7 for pairwise testing. http://pairwise.qa.ubuntu.com/ Please, go ahead and help us testing the

Re: Hi from Minneapolis

2010-03-23 Thread Ara Pulido
On 03/21/2010 01:34 PM, glenn opdycke-hansen wrote: I have been using ubuntu/kubuntu for a while. I would like to try out the new release and help with the testing. I was able to install kubuntu 10.04 via upgrade of 9.10. This was on a hp pavilion laptop. The upgrade via cdrom did not

Re: Hello Ubuntu

2010-03-12 Thread Ara Pulido
On 03/07/2010 12:31 PM, Alex Donald wrote: Hello all, I have been using Ubuntu for a few years now and it's time to give something back. I want to help test the new releases and maybe learn enough on the way to even fix a few things. I have a Lenovo S10e that I will be using for this.

Re: Announce: New Laptop Testing Project.

2010-02-23 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello Sergio and thanks for setting this up! On 02/19/2010 06:57 PM, Sergio Zanchetta wrote: Hello everyone, I'm proud to announce a new project born within the Testing Team of Italian LoCo. From the Introduction section: The Laptop Testing Project is open to anyone who would like to

Re: Unable to connect to Freenode during QA meeting

2010-02-10 Thread Ara Pulido
On 02/10/2010 06:25 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote: I kept getting timeout errors for Freenode on a connection that normally works, so I was unable to attend todays meeting. Anyone else? I didn't have any issues. Did you get problems on login to freenode in general, or accessing the

Call For Testing: Ubuntu 8.04.4

2010-01-21 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello people, next week, Ubuntu 8.04 reaches its 4th point release and, as usual, ISOs need to be tested before they get release. The first candidate ISOs are starting to appear in the ISO tracker [1], so you can start You are encourage to zsync your images, so if these are not the final

Re: Working with translated logs - shouldn't syslog keep an untranslated copy?

2010-01-18 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello Przemek! This was discussed some weeks ago in the Bugsquad mailing list [1]. This was the thread that Brian started [2]. You can continue the discussion in that thread. Thanks! Ara. [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-bugsquad [2]

Re: Ubuntu-qa Digest, Vol 27, Issue 5

2010-01-18 Thread Ara Pulido
. Re: Invitation to join 10.04 Alpha 1 testing (Shane Fagan) 4. RE: Invitation to join 10.04 Alpha 1 testing (Tom Uijldert) 5. Help needed: Alpha 2 Testing next week (Ara Pulido) 6. Re: Help Wanted: USB creator test cases (Ara Pulido) 7. Help wanted: update test cases on wiki (Ronald

A couple of new features in the ISO tracker

2010-01-11 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all, Ready for Alpha 2 ISO testing round, two new features have been added to the ISO tracker. * I am starting this test flag (LP: #291066) Yes! Finally! No more /me starts blah, blah, blah. Read everything about this new feature: http://tinyurl.com/ybxbwtz * Marking a testcase as

Re: Invitation to join 10.04 Alpha 1 testing

2010-01-07 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all, On 01/06/2010 01:58 AM, Shane Fagan wrote: Good idea, so everyone can have a feel for testing by beta. So any suggestions on a date or day of the week for the testing day? Would it be a good idea to have a session on #ubuntu-classroom too and do a bit of teaching at the start of

Re: New Member Introduction

2010-01-06 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello Cameron and welcome to the team! This is perfect timing because next week we have a round of ISO testing for Lucid Alpha 2. You can check our procedures at the wiki [1]. Also, I have a blog post to explain a bit what ISO testing is [2]. What time zone are you in? We are likely to be

Re: My introduction

2009-12-14 Thread Ara Pulido
Hey Scott! It is great to have you on board! Cheers, Ara. On 12/13/2009 11:35 AM, Scott Ritchie wrote: Hey everybody, This started out as a long email but I've decided to split it into an actual introduction and some separate productive talk about what I've been doing lately. I'm Scott

Re: Intorduction

2009-12-14 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello Arnish, welcome! If you are interested in Testing, please, check our wiki out [1] for information on how to help. We are in the middle of changing our wiki information to provide more useful information for new comers. So, it would be great if you could user test the wiki itself ;-) It

Re: Another new member

2009-12-09 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello Marisa, welcome! It is true that this mailing list has been a bit quiet in the last year, but this is going to change. In our last meeting [1], we decided that this mailing list was going to be our communication channel, so expect a rise in the number of threads per month. How do you want