Re: Join Ubuntu Oneiric Beta 1 ISO Testing

2011-08-30 Thread Ronald McCollam
It depends on what you want to test. If you run update-manager, it will automatically update you to the Beta 1 packages once they are out. You can report bugs against Beta 1 packages just like you could pre-beta. However, in order to do ISO testing, we need everyone to download and test the

Re: Tablets!

2011-03-28 Thread Ronald McCollam
Hello, Grant! On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 13:13 -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > >> Wiki pages or some similar system that accepts submitted contributions > >> might be a great way to harness the efforts people are making on their > >> own as they start to use some of the new tablets coming to market now.

Re: Newbie questions

2011-03-18 Thread Ronald McCollam
On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 07:06 -0800, Joseph Areeda wrote: > Greetings, Howdy! :) > I'm just getting used to all the changes in the UI in Natty. I'm using > zsync to update the daily iso. Is it necessary [or helpful] to wipe and > reinstall the iso every day? I guess since I'm having install issu

Usability testing tool

2010-07-21 Thread Ronald McCollam
I saw this posted to the Ayatana mailing list: http://www.andreasn.se/blog/?p=96 It's a tool to record the user's desktop as well as audio and video from the webcam for usability testing. I thought it might be useful in some way for both QA as well as potentially demonstrations and walkthroughs

Re: testing

2010-07-19 Thread Ronald McCollam
Hello and welcome, Todd! On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 10:36 -0400, Todd Davenport wrote: > Where would I find the testing ISO? If you're interested in the latest daily builds, they can be found at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com The "daily-live" image is the standard desktop install CD. The latest is alw

Re: Ubuntu QA Meeting Minutes - 2010-06-09

2010-06-14 Thread Ronald McCollam
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 13:33 -0700, Brian Murray wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:45:57PM -0400, Ronald McCollam wrote: > > == Location of meetings == > > ara and bladernr proposed that we keep the meetings in #ubuntu-quality > > rather than #ubuntu-meeting for flexibility

Re: [Ayatana] Should we create a "distro-upgrade testing" team?

2010-06-13 Thread Ronald McCollam
Hello Lance, On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 19:16 -0700, Lance wrote: > Undoubtedly this may sound kind of crazy, but I've been "iso-testing" > for nearly two years. > > When I began I was very poor at it, I'd basically give the iso a > "pass" if I managed to get it to run/install but as time went on I > b

Ubuntu QA Meeting Minutes - 2010-06-09

2010-06-10 Thread Ronald McCollam
together a structured testing program for audio testing (with mentorship from ara) Thanks! - rm Ronald McCollam signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Call For Testing: Ubuntu 8.04.4

2010-01-22 Thread Ronald McCollam
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 13:29 +0100, Ara Pulido wrote: > 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], > [1] http://iso.qa.ubuntu.co

Re: Help wanted: update test cases on wiki

2010-01-12 Thread Ronald McCollam
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 15:13 -0500, Vikram Dhillon wrote: > On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Ronald McCollam > wrote: > > As several people have pointed out, some of the test cases on the test > > case wiki are out of date. As the distro has moved forward, the defaul

Help wanted: update test cases on wiki

2010-01-08 Thread Ronald McCollam
Hello everyone, As several people have pointed out, some of the test cases on the test case wiki are out of date. As the distro has moved forward, the default behavior and applications have changed, but the test cases haven't always kept up. Is anyone willing to look through the wiki and take a

Re: linux firmware kit hardware databse

2010-01-05 Thread Ronald McCollam
Hello Vikram, On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 00:40 -0500, Vikram Dhillon wrote: > Hi all, > I looked over the linux firmware kit website and it seems to > be a really good idea. I am using it currently and I though it would > be a good idea, to maintain a hardware database of the components that >

Re: New Member Introduction & Testing Wiki Mailing List URL Question - Take 2

2010-01-05 Thread Ronald McCollam
here or in #ubuntu-testing on Freenode. And ISO testing will start up next week for Lucid Alpha 2 -- we can *always* use more help testing the ISOs. (Hint, hint ;) ) > Kind Regards, > Mitch Towner - rm Ronald McCollam -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa