Re: Handing over ubuntu-qa to the Qatar loco team

2012-10-31 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The process for this has begun -- I'll send an email once it's complete and we've moved to #ubuntu-quality. Thanks for the feedback everyone. Nicholas On 10/29/2012 04:43 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Greetings everyone ;-) The Qatar loco team is starting up, which is wonderful to see ubuntu

Handing over ubuntu-qa to the Qatar loco team

2012-10-29 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Greetings everyone ;-) The Qatar loco team is starting up, which is wonderful to see ubuntu loco's continuing to spread. However, this means in order for the loco naming standard to continue, we must give up this mailing list name. Never fear, our archives and subscriptions will be migrated

Re: blank address book in Thunderbird - Quantal - AMD64

2012-10-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 10/17/2012 04:42 PM, Bob wrote: When Thunderbird is opened and Address Book selected, the contacts are not shown. If Address Book is closed and then re-selected the contacts are shown correctly. 100% repeatable for me Bob My address book opens fine here -- does resetting your profile help?

The last days before release

2012-10-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
First and foremost -- if you have helped test in any way this cycle, make sure I've got your name recorded (or if you don't want your name published, let me know) -- this is the current draft of what will go into the release notes of ubuntu for quantal.

Re: Adelaide everywhere

2012-10-15 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 10/13/2012 05:31 AM, Jackson Doak wrote: can everyone in australia run the kubuntu daily and help confirm bug 1066223, i think the peoples of adelaide are trying to take over Jackson :-p Sich a funny way to put the bug Jackson. Sadly I don't live in Australia, or I would help out here.

Re: Is it a bug ?

2012-10-15 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 10/15/2012 09:47 AM, Carla Sella wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska...@canonical.com wrote: On 10/13/2012 05:14 AM, Carla Sella wrote: On 10/13/2012 10:49 AM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote: Everything was ok except for some unmet dependencies : libqtgui4

Re: Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal (Beta2)

2012-10-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Johan, if possible, try re-installing using the latest daily cd from here and report your results: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/219/builds If your install occurs the same way, file a bug using 'ubuntu-bug PACKAGENAME' -- see the bug faq here for information on the package to

Re: ARM This week in QA

2012-10-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
So Elfy reports upgrading from beta1 is pretty broken. If you've not yet taken the time to try, I would suggest holding off for now and focusing on the daily images. We've got the results we needed :-) We've had a couple confirmed successful installs using the daily images as well, so if you

Re: This week in QA

2012-10-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 10/08/2012 08:50 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: The end is near! This Friday the first of the release candidate isos will drop. Please, ping the list this week with any bugs that are critical to being fixed before these isos are spun! ASAP! This is the last chance for getting anything fixed

Re: This week in QA

2012-10-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 10/09/2012 11:33 AM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 10/08/2012 08:50 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: The end is near! This Friday the first of the release candidate isos will drop. Please, ping the list this week with any bugs that are critical to being fixed before these isos are spun! ASAP

Ubuntu OpenWeek

2012-10-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
As you may have heard, Openweek is coming up. The folks behind open week are asking for some sessions on QA, and sadly, I will be traveling and disconnected from the internet on those days :-( So, this is an excellent opportunity for us to 'put our name' as the qa community out there and

This week in QA

2012-10-02 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
This week in QA is preparation for Unity 6.8, which will contain some bugfixes for the items found in testing Unity 6.6. Thanks to all of our testers who help out on this effort! For those who are able to help, look for some specific regression testing after the feature lands. You can track it

Re: Question

2012-10-02 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Gabor, this link should show you any submissions you created: https://launchpad.net/~/+hwdb-submissions Does that answer your question? Nicholas On 10/02/2012 03:58 PM, Gabor Toth wrote: While doing Laptop testing I could not find how to get hold of my hardware profile that I have created

Re: The crash belongs to a package that is not installed. ???

2012-09-26 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 09/26/2012 06:02 AM, Brendan Donegan wrote: On 25/09/12 15:54, Brian Murray wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:44:25AM +0200, Gabor Toth wrote: Just a question here. From time to time I get a system crash window popping up and saying that there was a crash. I click on send the report - of

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] QA Beta 2/Still no Beta 2 testing notifications?

2012-09-26 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 09/26/2012 07:46 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi Lance, all the isos are safely on the tracker[1] They arrived yesterday. Regards, Phill 1. http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/238/builds On 26 September 2012 10:16, Lance lbsol...@yahoo.com mailto:lbsol...@yahoo.com wrote: I

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] improved script for burning cds

2012-09-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 09/22/2012 03:24 AM, ∅ wrote: can you all believe we are less than FOUR WEEKS away from release? if you haven't been putting your heart and soul into testing, now is the time! to that end, i posted up a script to the lubuntu-qa list recently to grab the iso, verify it against published

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: New -experimental drivers for nvidia/fglrx

2012-09-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 09/23/2012 03:08 PM, Fabio Marconi wrote: From: Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska...@canonical.com Date: 18 September 2012 16:39 Subject: New -experimental drivers for nvidia/fglrx To: Ubuntu QA ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com The technical board has decided to make some tweaks to how the nvidia

Beta 2 Testing -- Unity and ISO Testing!

2012-09-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Yikes! It's here. Thanks to everyone who's been working on our testcases. Those of your who use the tracker will notice the new changes. Thanks again to everyone's work on this. So, the beta2 images will be landing shortly on the tracker and will be ready for testing. In addition to this,

Re: Beta 2 Testing -- Unity and ISO Testing!

2012-09-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 09/24/2012 04:55 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Yikes! It's here. Thanks to everyone who's been working on our testcases. Those of your who use the tracker will notice the new changes. Thanks again to everyone's work on this. So, the beta2 images will be landing shortly on the tracker

Re: Beta 2 Testing -- Unity and ISO Testing!

2012-09-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Vasudevan Kottilil vasudeva...@gmail.com mailto:vasudeva...@gmail.com On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska...@canonical.com mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com wrote: Yikes! It's here. Thanks to everyone who's been working on our testcases. Those of your who

Re: CFT: Unity 6.6

2012-09-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Chris, are you able to boot in recovery mode, or boot into an alternate desktop? If so, then you should be able to file a bug. Additionally, how did this come about? Did you update and have this issue? Does a livecd from say, today's daily image, boot up and load a live session on the

Re: Buildup to beta2 -- Testcase Revamp

2012-09-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
for flavors!) testcases collapsed by default CSS from Pasi (new look to be feature in testcases; will take some time to update the old cases) better handling of testcase without link Nicholas On 09/18/2012 01:34 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Thanks to everyone who is stepping forward to help with this. I

Re: Latest daily build is buggy!

2012-09-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Yes, make sure your mouse is working properly -- try booting from a livecd where you know the mouse worked if you don't have a second mouse to test :-) Nicholas On 09/18/2012 09:50 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi John, this may sound blindingly obvious, but can you try with a different

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: New -experimental drivers for nvidia/fglrx

2012-09-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
? Regards, Howard (smartboyhw) 2012/9/18 Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com: F.Y.I. Regards, Phill. -- Forwarded message -- From: Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska...@canonical.com Date: 18 September 2012 16:39 Subject: New -experimental drivers for nvidia/fglrx To: Ubuntu QA ubuntu

Re: gnome disks test cases

2012-09-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Karl, you mean the 'disks' utility? No there are no tests as of yet, but please feel free to write some and propose to the list. Follow the proper format if possible: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/TestCaseFormat Nicholas On 09/17/2012 04:34 AM, Karl Anliot wrote: the application that is

Re: Introduction

2012-09-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Just as an fyi -- #ubuntu-qa isn't a special channel, it's the old channel that was closed to consolidate with #ubuntu-testing. No one can get into it :-) It used to redirect automagically, I guess they stopped that. Nicholas On 09/18/2012 07:32 PM, Ho Wan Chan wrote: Gee some wrong info

Re: Introduction

2012-09-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
∅, you have more machines than I my friend. Hold your head very high and proud. Your a testing guru :-) Nicholas On 09/18/2012 08:07 PM, ∅ wrote: Well, I hang my head in shame as I say this because I haven't been actually testing that much, but I've got 6+ machines and countless VMs. So

Re: Daily build vs. alpha/beta

2012-09-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
John, also note that during these focused testing periods (alpha, beta testing), the images we are testing are the latest daily builds. Sure, now beta1 is old, so if you wanted to do testing today for an image, you should use today's image. At the time we were testing however, it was the daily

Re: libreoffice bug...

2012-09-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
John, try taking a video or picture of what's happening. Can you reproduce the bug? Getting someone else to confirm the bug is the first step to helping it get solved. Being able to reproduce it is important to being able to fix ;-) Nicholas On 09/15/2012 05:57 AM, Karl Anliot wrote: On

This week in QA

2012-09-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Hello All. I just wanted to mention a few things that are going on this week with quantal and plans for testing. Beta 2 is coming up next week and the first images will land by Monday. Be prepared next week for iso testing :-) For those of you running quantal, there's some interesting changes

Grub 2.0 Landing in Quantal

2012-09-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
A major updating of grub to 2.0 is happening now in quantal. This change drops alot of custom patches and brings quantal in line with upstream, fixing bugs and offering a better experience (hopefully!). That said, if you find any issues or find yourself unable to boot, etc, as always have a

Re: Quantal Beta1 ISO Testing underway

2012-09-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I believe the rollover is sometime early in the morning 0600-0800 UTC? I write it down, but then forget anyway :-) Looking at the history it looks like sometimes it's building at closer to UTC though. I think you just got caught as the image rolled over is all. Nicholas On 09/10/2012

Re: xubuntu documentation

2012-09-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Jackson, good eyes. Knome, phillw, myself and some other QA folks from the various flavors discussed how the flavors might be able to make use of the new testcase formats and process in the tracker. As part of this knome and myself updated the old testcases to the new format. Knome was then

Re: Reboot Suspended

2012-09-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I believe this is the bug in question for Akilha: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1008873 Nicholas On 09/03/2012 04:04 AM, D Akhila Hegde wrote: There was a little progress, but it stopped again. Link to screen shot: http://imagebin.org/226982 Regards, Akhila On

Quantal Beta1 ISO Testing underway

2012-09-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I hope everyone had a great weekend (and for some, a great LONG weekend :-)). Beta1 is well underway, and for those who haven't yet had a chance to hop in and test the iso's, please take a moment and do so. As you all know last week many of the images had issues with critical bugs or with even

Reporting Bugs

2012-08-30 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I'm happy to report we're doing excellent work on finding bugs :-) Up until now, many of our bugs have been filed only against ubiquity, which then requires someone to manually triage if it's not a ubiquity bug. Since we know it's important to file the bug properly in order to get the bug

Re: Call for Testing: Compiz Unity

2012-08-30 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/21/2012 12:20 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Unity testing! This bas been my favorite testing each cycle -- I just love seeing the new stuff come out. A new version of unity has arrived, stock full of compiz fixes. The team has removed metacity completely, and also migrated to gsettings from

Re: New Member

2012-08-30 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Welcome Brian! Yes, do take a look at our wiki page and familiarize yourself with it. Next week we will be testing the beta iso's, which will contain all the expected features for quantal (since feature freeze has occurred ;-) ). Our goal is to help squash bugs and ready the images for

Re: A Question

2012-08-29 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Akhila, yep note the bug number and place it in the bug list. If you continue to see the bug over many builds, consider mentioning it here to raise the visibility of the bug (assuming it's of a critical nature). Has your bug been confirmed? Nicholas On 08/29/2012 10:21 AM, D Akhila Hegde

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Pushing the envelope .. Ubiquity Entire Drive Encrypted Install

2012-08-28 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Ron, yep d-i for debian installer... On 08/28/2012 11:00 AM, Ron Mitchell wrote: Ok, think I got it. Debian - Install right?? Ron M. On 27-Aug-12, at 8:09 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 08/27/2012 08:12 PM, Greg Faith wrote: Okay, since we are might see the demise of the d-i this cycle

Re: ARM Wiki sd-install update

2012-08-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/27/2012 10:01 AM, Elfy wrote: On 20/08/12 23:46, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: For those of you braving ARM installations, I tried an sd-based installation this week and updated the instructions on the wiki page. Elfy, Carla, et la, I can confirm your findings of this bug(s): https

Re: ARM Wiki sd-install update

2012-08-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/27/2012 11:29 AM, Elfy wrote: On 27/08/12 16:16, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 08/27/2012 10:01 AM, Elfy wrote: On 20/08/12 23:46, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: For those of you braving ARM installations, I tried an sd-based installation this week and updated the instructions on the wiki page

Re: Intro

2012-08-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/27/2012 10:47 AM, Vasudevan Kottilil wrote: Hello, I just joined this list and thank you for the opportunity to contribute to ubuntu qa. I have extensive previous development experience (apps) and currently working at Cisco in one of their dev-test teams. I am interested in the

Re: Pushing the envelope .. Ubiquity Entire Drive Encrypted Install

2012-08-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/27/2012 08:12 PM, Greg Faith wrote: Okay, since we are might see the demise of the d-i this cycle.. I decided to install the encrypted entire drive with ubiquity on a Lubuntu Desktop amd64 12.10 current daily build 20120827.. Well even on my Lenovo with nvidia-xorg issues I did complete

Fwd: Proposal to drop Ubuntu alternate CDs for 12.10

2012-08-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
FYI -- as spoken of earlier, here's the details on dropping the alternate installer in 12.10. Again, this is just for ubuntu, and not a decision for any flavors. As far as I know, no flavors have committed to dropping the alternate cd's. This transition will occur with the next milestone,

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] qa Tracker ahead of Spins?

2012-08-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
-application-gtk2. I know work is being done to fix this. Again, due to FF and milestones, expect breakage ;-) I've updated the noticed board to say as much. Nicholas On 08/24/2012 01:18 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: It would appear that some builds are indeed broken. No, your not in la-la land

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] qa Tracker ahead of Spins?

2012-08-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
are failing to build and overall images may fail to build occasionally for the next week (week of August 27th) or so. Many new features are landing in the wake of beta and feature freeze. Expect breakage and/or missing images when testing. Thanks! Nicholas On 08/24/2012 01:37 PM, Nicholas Skaggs

Re: Greetings!

2012-08-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/24/2012 09:03 AM, Jim Adams wrote: Hello: My name is Jim Adams. I have been an avid user of Ubuntu for serveral years now and have used the bleeding edge for as much as possible (hoping to get warnings prior to running my daily 'apt-get dist-upgrade' when scary Xserver bugs are

Calls for Testing -- Thank you!

2012-08-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I wanted to circle back with everyone to say thank you again for the great work we've done this cycle. As we continue to get new software coming out for specific focused testing events, some of the older calls have ended. With that in mind, let's take a look at what we achieved. Webapps

Re: 12.04.1 ISO Testing

2012-08-22 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
There's been a respin of the alternate images for this bug: LP:1039828 . package fontconfig-config 2.8.0-3ubuntu9 failed to install/upgrade, makes system with that package fail to upgrade (LTS-to-LTS) Note it was found while upgrading an LTS-LTS without a network connection. Nicholas --

Re: 12.04.1 ISO Testing

2012-08-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Thanks everyone who has already helped with the testing! I saw some great bugs being found and worked -- on upgrades and inside the installer. Excellent work! If you've not yet submitted a result, consider executing a testcase that still needs to be run. victor.zhou jibel fabiomarconi psivaa

Cadence Testing -- my thoughts on how the cycle has gone

2012-08-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I know, lots of emails today -- it's quite a week to be in QA :-) We've been chatting on and off via the list about this idea of cadence testing, and the struggles we've hit. I wanted to share my thoughts and ideas on what's gone right and what's gone wrong with cadence testing this cycle.

Nvidia Driver Woes

2012-08-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Some folks ran into this over the weekend, and I've heard enough about it that I thought a mail wouldn't hurt :-) For those running quantal, a new X stack has landed that breaks the nvidia driver. For now, the driver has been disabled. Read more:

Re: Facebook Page

2012-08-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I would point out and clarify I don't want to see any technical discussion moved off this list and migrating somewhere else -- I don't think we're at risk of that happening. The FB and g+ pages will serve as open-ended ads to point back to the group and it's normal communication channels.

Re: 12.04.1 ISO Testing

2012-08-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
for bugs and issues). The alternate images (for ubuntu) are targeted to be dropped. More discussions on this will happen during beta, when ubiquity should have all the changes necessary to support the functionality found in the alt images. Thanks, Nicholas On 08/20/2012 10:49 AM, Nicholas Skaggs

Re: 12.04.1 ISO Testing

2012-08-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
-20 17:28, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: I almost forgot -- since this is 12.04.1, the alternate images are a part of this release :-) Don't forget them! I'm in quantal mode and didn't even think when I saw them. FYI, for quantal, we are attempting to reduce our image count (to make our testing easier

ARM Wiki sd-install update

2012-08-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
For those of you braving ARM installations, I tried an sd-based installation this week and updated the instructions on the wiki page. Elfy, Carla, et la, I can confirm your findings of this bug(s): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1036742

Re: ARM - installs

2012-08-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Elfy, Carla, Jim, and myself are having the same issues that you are having with this. Hang in there! It's not something your doing, the images themselves are in a non-working state it seems. Nicholas On 08/16/2012 08:53 PM, Elfy wrote: I am having a complete nightmare :( I've not got one

Re: Facebook Page

2012-08-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
just change the name (if that's possible on identi.ca) to something like ubuntuqa. Have a nice day!, pedro. 2012/8/17 Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska...@canonical.com: Good ideas everyone ;-) I am on google plus, and we could start a page easily enough there. If you didn't already know

Re: installer broken

2012-08-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Jackson, is this for the quantal builds? or 12.04.1? Nicholas On 08/17/2012 05:42 PM, Jackson Doak wrote: do any of todays daily builds install? both i've used froze (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1038283) jackson -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list

Re: alpha3

2012-08-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Arvind, you can boot your system in rescue mode and access a command line that way. Does the system boot at all? I'd need more information to recommend the easiest way to recover. Nicholas On 08/16/2012 07:58 AM, Arvind Gupta wrote: HI I have upgraded to alpha3 by update-manager -d. It

Survey Results

2012-08-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The results to the quality survey I undertook a few weeks back are in: http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2012/08/quality-perceptions-survey-results.html Thank you to all who participated. There are some takeaways from the survey and I'll likely be continuing to post more addressing the

Re:

2012-08-15 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Jackson, I'll see what the release team can do about trying to fix this. Not sure of all that's involved. Link for those who are curious: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/837054 Nicholas On 08/15/2012 05:55 AM, Jackson Doak wrote: when testing the iso can people please

Re: ARM - daily install to SDCARD

2012-08-15 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/15/2012 06:16 AM, Elfy wrote: On 15/08/12 09:56, Elfy wrote: On 15/08/12 00:56, C de-Avillez wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:36:29 +0100 Elfyub.u...@btinternet.com wrote: Trying to install to sdcard - it sees the free space - allows me to create partition/s as required. Then the

Re: Which Hardware Profile to Post?

2012-08-15 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Sanchit, good question. This cycle I have been working towards bringing a community hardware database to be utilized for testing purposes like this. We might consider including a flag of some sort to indicate that you utilized a virtual machine for the testing. At the moment, I have been

Re: ARM - daily install to SDCARD

2012-08-15 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/15/2012 01:03 PM, Elfy wrote: On 15/08/12 17:49, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 08/15/2012 06:16 AM, Elfy wrote: On 15/08/12 09:56, Elfy wrote: On 15/08/12 00:56, C de-Avillez wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 17:36:29 +0100 Elfyub.u...@btinternet.com wrote: Trying to install to sdcard

Re: missing mouse

2012-08-14 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Jackson, not sure anyone answered you here :-) I've not tested using qemu this cycle; perhaps someone else can ring in here. My guess however is that there is something going on with qemu, and not in ubuntu. I've not seen any reports of a missing mouse before. Nicholas On 08/14/2012 04:41

Broken Unity

2012-08-14 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I broke unity last night -- heh.. There's a new version of unity coming this week, and there will be testcases for us to test. I'll be announcing a call for testing when it comes.. So head's up. However, it seems keeping the webapps ppa around is causing some broken packages during this

Re: Ask Ubuntu Question on Volume.

2012-08-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I sent a reply -- basically we need to determine if it's something that is broken in config, or with pulseaudio. There's a new upstream version he can test, and we can see if the older version of the audio stack works for him. Finally, thew pulseaudio folks will likely have asome tweaks to

Re: On running a persistence session...

2012-08-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
John, I believe the simplest way is to use the usb-creator in ubuntu and check the persistence box.. The loopback file goes on your usd drive. What happens is that you start a live session, save some files, and then the next time you boot the live session from your usb stick, those files are

Re: Hello! [Introduction]

2012-08-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/10/2012 03:54 PM, Sanchit Gangwar wrote: Hello everyone. I'm Sanchit Gangwar and I'll be testing the ISOs and packages. I'm completely new to all this and I hope I'll be able to contribute a little bit to Ubuntu. Sanchit, welcome! If you've not already done so, check out our wiki

Re: sudo apt-get upgrade

2012-08-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
John, the daily images contains snapshots of packages in the archive (including things you wouldn't have installed on your machine). If your running a the development version of ubuntu, the packages found on the cd will be the same versions you could install from the archive on that day. Does

Our Cadence results

2012-08-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
So it's friday afternoon/evening for most of the world -- time to take a look and see how we did! We're currently only awaiting results for amd64+mac. Thanks to everyone else who helped make this a success. Yesterday we found some critical ubiquity bugs that we'll be following up with the

Re: ISO Testing Status

2012-08-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
in testing, don't panic! File any bugs you find and try to complete the install. If it fails, still report it. A failed to install is still a valid result! On 08/08/2012 04:47 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: What I've taken to calling 'cadence' testing, is the testing of the daily builds of isos

Re: Pulseaudio 2.1 Testing

2012-08-08 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
that the most crucial functions of a program *work*/, which means we are trying to make sure that the product we have is 'testable', and has no blocker bugs. Well, that's what I know. Any corrections? Akhila On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska...@canonical.com

Re: Introductory Mail

2012-08-08 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Greetings Mart! Feel free to ask questions and learn! The wiki has some good information. I would recommend reading over these pages, and then asking questions about what you might be interested in. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Overview The qatracker is our central tool for our activities:

ISO Testing Status

2012-08-08 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
What I've taken to calling 'cadence' testing, is the testing of the daily builds of isos (specifically those focused on the desktop and ubuntu) over the course of a non-milestone week, with the intent of insuring the mandatory testcases for those isos pass. I know this has been a difficult

ISO Testing Cadence Week

2012-08-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Cheers everyone. This week is a cadence week for iso testing. What that means for us is to test all of our ubuntu isos mandatory testcases at least once over the course of the week. A big thank you to those who are already leading the way on this with testing: Tables gregfaith, michael-kroll,

Pulseaudio 2.1 Testing

2012-08-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
For those of you running quantal looking for something easy to test (outside of the iso testing going on this week :-) ), consider testing the new version of pulseaudio for quantal. The testcase is simple and is located here:

Re: ISO Testing Screencast

2012-08-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
D Akhila, glad it was helpful to you. In order to login, head to http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/ and click the login button on the left. You won't have access to http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/user after logging in, but you will be able to add and remove results :-) Thanks, Nicholas On 08/03/2012 12:56

QATracker Screentcast

2012-08-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Thanks to all who commented on the isotesting walkthrough. With all that feedback in mind, I created a generalized video giving an overview of the qatracker itself and how to use it to test and submit results. I hope it's not too monotone sounding -- I tried to make sure I could be understood

Next Week

2012-08-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Hope your Friday treated you well :-) Enjoy the weekend. Upcoming events for next week involve hopefully getting our hands on the first unity testing this cycle, and our cadenced iso testing. Our goal for the week is to have every image's mandatory testcases pass at some point during the week.

Re: Introductory Mail - Akhila Hegde

2012-08-01 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Greetings Akhila, wonderful to have you! If your curious as to what all we as a team do, please see the 'Activities' page on the ubuntu wiki. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities Right now we're testing webapps, and continuing our 12.10 kernel on 12.04 testing campaign. We utilize the

ISO Testing Screencast

2012-08-01 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I've created a video to accompany the iso testing walkthrough. I'd love some feedback on both the walk-through and video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noDAsZjvmSA https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Walkthrough Are they helpful? I know the video could be better (next time, promise!), but

Call for testing on Webapps

2012-07-25 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I made a post to my blog (since this week isn't busy enough!) about the call for testing being opened on webapps. There's a nice set of testcases available that you can help report results on. The technology is very cool, but could use the work of our excellent eyes and experience in helping

Wiki Updates

2012-07-25 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
As some of you may have noticed I have been editing our wiki pages again to try and present a better view of how we as a community operate in QA, and ensure the new folks who come along are able to get up to speed quickly and efficiently. To that end I've edited (and will be continuing to do

Re: Chair

2012-07-25 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Ho Wan Chan don't get too far ahead of yourself now :-) As always, as a group we are happy to have different volunteers chairing the meetings and Ho Wan Chan has volunteered to help out. I will be taking a break to let phillw and Ho Wan Chan chair during the month of August. If anyone else

Re: Alpha 3 ISO Testing

2012-07-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Alpha 3 iso's are here! Grab your favorite iso and jump in. If you need help, ping the list or hop on freenode in the #ubuntu-testing channel. http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/226/builds Here is the wiki link describing how to iso test: https://wiki.ubuntu.com

Alpha 3 ISO Testing

2012-07-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Due to the suspend/resume kernel bug and app-install-data-ubuntu, there's been some last minute changes to the alpha3 isos. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1026964 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/app-install-data-ubuntu The builds are still being worked on, but they

Iso Tracker updates

2012-07-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
This week has seen a slightly updated version of the qatracker website be released, but even more importantly, the ubuntu desktop, ubuntu core, ubuntu wubi, and ubuntu upgrade testcases have been migrated over. The server images will be following be getting the same treatment shortly (Since

ISO Testing Cadence

2012-07-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
During the quantal cycle a thread was proposed to change the way we as ubuntu look at testing and quality. For details, check out the archives https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-June/thread.html#35345 I fair warning, it's quite long :-) As part of this, last week I issued the

Quantal, Alpha 2 and you :-)

2012-06-25 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Get your testing fingers ready; Alpha 2 is upon us. The first images will be landing soon and we'll start the process of verifying and ensuring the images are worthy to be called Alpha 2. For those running Quantal day to day over the last few weeks, you know things have started to land that is

The new isotracker

2012-06-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
As some of you noticed this week while testing out the iso's in preparation for Alpha 2 next week, the isotracker got updated. I promised more information about the changes after they landed, so here's a sampling for everyone to take a look at. At this time, the Ubuntu Desktop amd64+mac in

Call for Testing: 12.10 Kernel on 12.04

2012-06-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I know some of you out there are still enjoying the goodness of precise and haven't yet made the leap. Here's a way you can help out and put your precise installation to good use for testing :-) As you know the kernel team will be supporting newer kernels on the LTS release of ubuntu. As part of

Re: Quantal Daily ISO Testing for Alpha One

2012-06-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The alpha one images are being built as we speak :-) http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/221/builds Look for yours to show up today and ready your test machines :-) Nicholas On 05/31/2012 12:33 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: The Alpha One milestone is quickly approaching us. Starting

Re: Quantal Daily ISO Testing for Alpha One

2012-06-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
will be produced and need to be tested in the interim. No desktop DVD for this milestone Nicholas On 06/04/2012 11:23 AM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: The alpha one images are being built as we speak :-) http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/221/builds Look for yours to show up today

Re: Wubi

2012-06-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
! Nicholas On 06/04/2012 05:34 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Elvis, good catch. Wubi has the image and exe that must be built, and that has historically been a co-ordinated process. The URL is fixed now. The exciting news is this is getting fixed to not be a manual sync-up this cycle. Fingers

Re: Ubuntu brain storm, page 2 not loading

2012-05-31 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
This appears to be a bug with the website itself, since removing the extra '/' doesn't fix the issue. I'd report the bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ideatorrent/+filebug. Nicholas On 05/30/2012 07:18 PM, komputes wrote: On 05/30/2012 05:40 PM, Daniel Genis wrote: Dear Ladies and

Fwd: 3 months of free HP Cloud instance time for Ubuntu Developers

2012-05-31 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Heads up everyone! This offer is extended to the QA Community as well. Feel free to contact Jorge or myself if you have questions about this. Nicholas Original Message Subject:3 months of free HP Cloud instance time for Ubuntu Developers Date: Thu, 31 May 2012

Quantal Daily ISO Testing for Alpha One

2012-05-31 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The Alpha One milestone is quickly approaching us. Starting next Monday the first images will be generated for the milestone and we'll begin milestone testing. As a pre-cursor to that testing, we are looking to test now and report issues in advance. The goal is to run a daily of your iso sometime

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