Live Interview with QA Community Coordinator

2012-05-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Amber Graner is hosting a live interview with me today. If your interested in watching the session, tune in at the links below. The interview should be starting sometime in the next hour from receipt of this message. If you miss it, the video will be available afterwards for your viewing pleasure.

Ubuntu User Days

2012-05-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Ubuntu User days are coming up soon -- June 23rd - June 24th. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays This is an excellent platform an opportunity for us as the QA community to introduce new folks to the wonderful world of testing. But we need some volunteers to have a session with a QA mindset.

Release Schedule

2012-05-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Look ma, we're on the release schedule! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseInterlock That's right, we've been assigned tasks corresponding to the milestone events for next cycle. As a community, we're being asked to perform the tasks and work detailed community testing column.

Weekly IRC Meeting Re-Starting

2012-05-22 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Just a reminder (for me too!), we'll be kicking off our IRC meetings again for QA after our hiatus for UDS. Tomorrow, be in #ubuntu-meeting @ 1400 UTC and if possible, come ready to chat about your plans and needs for the cycle. I'll do my best to cover my own work items and the blueprints and

Re: ISO testing - xubuntu gear icon?

2012-04-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Andrew, your correct. These tests are for the moment intentionally generic, so they can be run on all of the flavors. This can be confusing across flavors, since not everything looks exactly the same. Some of the flavors teams (like lubuntu) have spoken of creating or extending the testcases to be

Re: Partial upgrade Can't guess meta-package

2012-04-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Russell, I would report this via ubuntu-bug ubiquity and note you encountered the bug in the iso tracker. Thanks for helping test! Nicholas On 04/17/2012 06:12 PM, Russell Hart wrote: Hi, I doing the 'Install (ubiquity) in Ubuntu DVD amd64 for Precise Daily' test case in a Virtual Machine

Focused ISO Testing on Thursday's

2012-04-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Greetings everyone -- the QA team is continuing it's focus on quality this cycle. With that in mind, from now until the end of the cycle we're going to take each Thursday until release and run the latest iso on our machines; reporting the results via the iso tracker. Additionally, once we run thru

Re: Unity 5.10 Testing

2012-04-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Just adding there's a video walkthrough of this by Alan Pope: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgL957zo5QM If your curious how to do it, watch :-) Nicholas On 04/05/2012 03:14 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Unity 5.10 is going to be landing tomorrow (Friday April 6th @ 1500 UTC or so). I posted

Manual Application Testing for beta2

2012-04-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The checkbox test ppa has been updated for beta2 -- you may have been prompted to upgrade if you did the testing during beta1. Feel free to run thru the tests again (there's some new stuff in there ;-0 ) and report bugs. Also, check out the new qt interface it's a bit easier to use than gtk, and

Re: Reminder -- meeting tomorrow @ 1400 UTC

2012-04-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
. Again, my apologies. Nicholas On 04/03/2012 12:17 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: This is just a friendly reminder we have a new meeting time 1400 UTC. I look forward to seeing everyone at our weekly meeting, with new and improved time: April 4th at 14:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting on freenode

Reminder -- meeting tomorrow @ 1400 UTC

2012-04-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
This is just a friendly reminder we have a new meeting time 1400 UTC. I look forward to seeing everyone at our weekly meeting, with new and improved time: April 4th at 14:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting on freenode. Thanks, Nicholas -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

New weekly meeting time

2012-03-28 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The results are in for our new meeting time ;-) It seems like keeping the same day of Wednesday works for everyone if we move the time forward to 1400 UTC. I have updated the wiki, and starting April 4th we will meet at 1400 UTC in the #ubuntu-meeting room on freenode. I hope this aligns better

Ubiquity Installer Sprint

2012-03-19 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Greetings everyone. As mentioned in last week's meeting, the ubiquity team is having an installer sprint starting today and ending on Weds. As a qa community, we have the opportunity to help participate and confirm bug fixes, as well as get possible critical bugs that are still outstanding fixed.

Re: An idea on the structure of QA

2012-03-15 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
planning a session at UDS? Charles On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 16:03 -0400, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: These are also in the proposal, which you can read here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/ProposedTeamStructure Thanks, Nicholas -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Meeting Time Poll

2012-03-15 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
As discussed at our last IRC meeting, I am including a poll to see what times/days would work best for us to meet. I'll leave the poll open until after our next meeting, during which we can discuss the results, and make any scheduling changes based upon them if we feel it's necessary. When filling

Re: build

2012-03-12 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
In addition, I don't believe the period in the date is intentional -- someone correct me if I'm wrong here :-) IE, 20120301.1 should actually be 201203011 Nicholas On 03/12/2012 01:55 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi guys, http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/208/builds/12811/downloads

Re: build

2012-03-12 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Yikes! Yes, my mistake. I was assuming Phil was looking at the March 11th iso's, not the March 1st iso's.. That timing... Nicholas On 03/12/2012 02:18 PM, Steve Beattie wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:08:14PM -0400, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: In addition, I don't believe the period in the date

Re: Manual Application Testing plans for beta1

2012-03-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
noticed a couple of things that didn't work quite right with charts embedded in a table. I want to test them in the new 3.5 beta in 12.04. Do I file bug reports on Launchpad for this, or do I go upstream? Thanks in advance! On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Nicholas Skaggs

Re: Manual Application Testing plans for beta1

2012-03-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
time) and this problem has already been reported in Precise, so I added myself to the bug and also a few details. Any comment on my other question with regard to testing LibreOffice - bug reports in Launchpad or upstream? On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Nicholas Skaggs nicholas.ska

Re: Manual Application Testing plans for beta1

2012-03-01 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Happy Testing, Nicholas On 02/29/2012 05:13 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Thanks Dave -- if you don't otherwise get a request in (it can be really basic, there's a job for software center already ;-) ), I will try and get a test written around these lines. If we don't have this for beta1, that's ok

Re: Manual Application Testing plans for beta1

2012-02-29 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
continue to grow. Nicholas On 02/29/2012 06:37 AM, Dave Morley wrote: On 28/02/12 19:20, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: For those of you who haven't seen/heard, we are planning on testing our default applications using checkbox for beta1. See this blog post for more details and submit some merge requests

Manual Application Testing plans for beta1

2012-02-28 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
For those of you who haven't seen/heard, we are planning on testing our default applications using checkbox for beta1. See this blog post for more details and submit some merge requests for tests :-) Or plan on participating and running the tests via checkbox. Thanks everyone!

Wubi Testing Opportunity

2012-02-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Here's an opportunity to test wubi, the windows ubuntu installer. If you've got a windows partition handy, give it a whirl. We all want our beta1 iso's to be bug free -- this is a jump start on that ;-) http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2012/02/call-for-testing-wubi.html FYI, if you like twitter

Re: 14-16 feb update compiz (and other?) problems

2012-02-15 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Petko, are you running precise or oneiric, natty or perhaps lucid? Nicholas On 02/15/2012 05:17 PM, Petko wrote: Hey guys , since I updated these days I'm having all kinds of trouble with the GUI . Edge bindings not working , compiz crashing , surprising logouts , the alleged removal of

Clickpad Testing Opportunity

2012-02-14 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Hello everyone. I wanted to inform you of another testing opportunity. There's going to be many in the next couple weeks, so bear with me. Feel free to test what interests you or is pertinent to hardware/problems you may have, etc. "Clickpad" devices are

Unity 5.4 Testing Opportunity

2012-02-14 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Another opportunity for testing -- there's going to be a lot this week. :-) Unity 5.4 has landed and has a new suite of tests surrounding the HUD. You have until Thursday at 8 am UTC as usual to test. Please see this post for the details

Upstart Testing Opportunity

2012-02-14 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Told you this was going to be busy. As always, test what your interested in, what makes sense for you, etc. There's a new version of upstart coming to precise, and the developers want to make sure it's not going to bork anyone's system. Testing in VM's,

Meeting tomorrow - 17:00 UTC - #ubuntu-meeting

2012-02-14 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Hello all! Just a quick reminder that tomorrow 15 Feb 2012 we are having a regular QA meeting at 17:00 UTC at #ubuntu-meeting. Chair will be balloons. Agenda, so far, looks like this: Previous Actions ACTION: phillw to

Call for Testing ALSA 1.0.25

2012-02-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
It's a double header day for testing :-) There's a new version of alsa bound for precise, and for the time being it's in the ubuntu audio dev ppa. Check out my post for the details if you want to help test:

Re: Manual Test Case Review

2012-02-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Thanks Brendan. Based upon that I will go ahead and move these TC-NMA-XXX testcases into the wiki as well. Nicholas On 02/07/2012 08:28 AM, Brendan Donegan wrote: On 06/02/12 19:13, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: A question on testcases: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key

Re: Manual Test Case Review

2012-02-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
as specified, nor does a connection dialog popup appear. Can someone confirm/deny? Nicholas On 01/26/2012 06:15 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Vadim, I reviewed your work, and added my comments as needed and made a couple small tweaks. Thanks! In addition I added all the nautilus test cases

Re: Test Cases wiki questions

2012-02-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
at 14:18 -0500, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Andrew, we're currently in process of updating all of our wiki test cases. See this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgtV30nnv18edFQzNVB4S2duOWNOT05zaHo3S0pNekE The idea is to go thru each of the test cases, edit them on the doc

Help test Unity 5.2!

2012-01-31 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Hello everyone. I know this is a busy week for us QA folks, but in addition to all of the other testing going on the unity desktop team has made available unity 5.2 for testing. I cover how to test in my blog post:

Re: Manual Test Case Review

2012-01-26 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Vadim, I reviewed your work, and added my comments as needed and made a couple small tweaks. Thanks! In addition I added all the nautilus test cases to the wiki! Thanks for your help in crafting these. Please review the result here: http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Applications/Nautilus

Meeting today - 17:00 UTC - #ubuntu-meeting

2012-01-25 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
i everyone! I wanted to send out a quick reminder that we are having our regular QA meeting at 17:00 UTC at #ubuntu-meeting. Agenda, so far, looks like this: * Previous Actions ACTION: alourie to featureAutomatedTesting https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomatedTestingwiki page prominently in wiki,

Re: Meeting today - 17:00 UTC - #ubuntu-meeting

2012-01-25 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
AM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: i everyone! I wanted to send out a quick reminder that we are having our regular QA meeting at 17:00 UTC at #ubuntu-meeting. Agenda, so far, looks like this: Previous Actions ACTION: alourie

18 Jan IRC Meeting Summary

2012-01-19 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Hello everyone, here is a summary of action items from yesterday's weekly QA Meeting at #ubuntu-meeting: ACTION: alourie to feature AutomatedTesting wiki page prominently in wiki, based upon list discussion (balloons, 17:10:04) ACTION: gema discuss

Manual Test Case Review

2012-01-19 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Here's the current list of things that looked good to go into the wiki -- I plan to get thru all of the rest on the spreadsheet tomorrow. Ready to go as-is: TC-NFM-002 TC-NFM-003 TC-NFM-004 I think these are all pretty close also.

Meeting today - 17:00 UTC - #ubuntu-meeting

2012-01-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Hi everyone! I wanted to send out a quick reminder that we are having our regular QA meeting at 17:00 UTC at #ubuntu-meeting. I (balloons) will be chairing for the first time, so you'll certainly not want to miss that. Agenda, so far, looks like this: Previous Actions ACTION: patrickmw

Re: Introduction

2012-01-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Chris, welcome! There are many different avenues to get involved in with QA -- unity testing, iso testing, doing sru testing, etc. What are your interests? Hop on the #ubuntu-testing IRC channel and introduce yourself. We're happy to get you plugged in. Thanks, Nicholas On 01/13/2012 05:09

QA Contact Roundup

2012-01-12 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
For my own sake, and as a means to get the wiki up-to-date, I was attempting to document the primary contacts for each of the official ubuntu flavors. You can find the list as it is on the bottom of the main QA wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam. Thus far looks like we have most of the

RE: QA wiki update

2012-01-11 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Alex, I started working through your version of the wiki also today. I pulled some of the changes you had made and replaced/edited the relevant sections on the main page. It would be good to get your content merged asap, so it doesn't fall out of date. We have the ability to revert changes, so

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