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 touch

Re: Introduction

2012-09-18 Thread
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 touché! I say encourage people to aspire to great heights and accept them where they're at. :) On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:42:12 +0800 Ho Wan Chan wrote: > W

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 Phill Whiteside
He he, I'm more afraid of what the devs do to the dailies than I am of Virtual Machines [1] :D Regards, Phill. 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Overview/TheStages#Virtual_Machines On 19 September 2012 00:42, Ho Wan Chan wrote: > Well of course more testing the better, but then if you are not

Re: Introduction

2012-09-18 Thread Ho Wan Chan
Well of course more testing the better, but then if you are not Nicholas or Phill you won certainly have that much machines or VMs. It is best to first choose your favorite distro (I first use Desktop, then test Ubuntu Studio), then once you feel comfortable then do other distros:) Regards, Howar

Re: Introduction

2012-09-18 Thread
1. I meant #ubuntu-testing. My bad. 2. This is of course a matter of opinion, but the more testing the better, no? wxl On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 07:32:10 +0800 Ho Wan Chan wrote: > 1. If you notice #ubuntu-qa is invite only. Please use #ubuntu-testing. > 2. I think it is the best to test the distro t

Re: Introduction

2012-09-18 Thread Ho Wan Chan
Gee some wrong info given by wxl... 1. If you notice #ubuntu-qa is invite only. Please use #ubuntu-testing. 2. I think it is the best to test the distro that you are now using. Anyway, welcome to the testing/QA team! Regards, Howard Chan (smartboyhw) 2012/9/19 ∅ : > Welcome Adrian! > > If you

Re: Introduction

2012-09-18 Thread
Welcome Adrian! If you don't have a Launchpad account, get one: https://login.launchpad.net/8XZb0RscX7K2WnFD/+new_account You'll need it. This is the bug tracker and code repository. Speaking of which, I think the most fundamental part of QA is testing, identifying bugs, and gathering the infor

Re: Introduction

2012-09-18 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hiyas Ade, firstly a warm welcome to QA. Don't worry about being new to QA, we are were all once new and have some very dedicated people who are also relatively new. Have a good read of the QA Wiki area[1]. Feel free to ask questions and let myself or Nicholas (balloons on IRC) know of any improve

Introduction

2012-09-18 Thread Adrian Goodyer
Hello everyone, My name is Ade and I am a second year university student studying Computing and Software Development. I am an intermediate Java SE developer with skills in mathematics, project management and previous to my degree, I have a background in web development. I have used Ubuntu for a

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 for

Hello! [Introduction]

2012-08-10 Thread Sanchit Gangwar
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. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubsc

Re: Introduction

2012-07-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Hello Howard! Glad your interested in helping out. Have a look at the activities page on the Ubuntu Wiki for ideas about what we do, and pay attention to the mailing list for requests to help test. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities Right now we have an on-going effort to help with ker

Re: Introduction

2012-07-16 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Howard, there is no formal enrolement to the QA team, simply register on the mailing list, be aware of our meetings [1], roll up your sleeves and get testing [2] :) Do feel free to ask on the mailing list or on the IRC channel any questions that you may have. Not knowing your level of experien

Introduction

2012-07-16 Thread Ho Wan Chan
Hi, I'm Howard Chan. I want to join the Ubuntu QA team. I've been a tester at the Ubuntu testing team, testing Ubuntu Alpha and Daily Builds. -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa

Introduction and Hello

2012-01-27 Thread Andrew McDonnell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, all I met some friendly Ubuntu people at LCA2012 who suggested one of the ways I could help out would be ISO testing, so I just now signed up on Launchpad and here I am :-) I primarily use Debian Squeeze on my desktop but I use Xubuntu live q

Re: Introduction

2012-01-13 Thread José Cardoso de Almeida
Thank you for the reply. I have been a Ubuntu user since Lucid Lynx release. I work mainly with datacenter environments, hp-ux, storage, and some networking. Interests: Feature testing, Ubuntu server, bug squad. Cheers, José 2012/1/13 Alex Lourie > 2012/1/13 José Cardoso de Almeida > >> Hi,

Re: Introduction

2012-01-13 Thread Alex Lourie
2012/1/13 José Cardoso de Almeida > Hi, > > My name is José Almeida, and I recently joined this team to start giving > my contribution to the Ubuntu project. > > Could you kindly advise where should I begin. > > Thank you and regards, > José > -- > This message was sent from Launchpad by > =?utf-

Re: Introduction & Eee PC

2012-01-13 Thread Barney Holmes
Thanks Nicholas and Phill ! Forgot this in my sig: https://launchpad.net/~barney-holmes In my experience a lightweight browser does not provide the kind of embedded "internet OS" which Firefox is now if you think about it. People use Firefox as an entire system that they use between various devi

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 A

Introduction

2012-01-12 Thread Chris Robinson
Hello everyone, this is by way of introducing myself, though I normally lurk for longer to get some idea of the group before posting. I've been using Ubuntu since 9.04 (or was it 8,10...).  More recently I've got involved in my Loco (AU) and in testing.  I always have at least one testing machi

Re: Introduction & Eee PC

2012-01-12 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Welcome! I also had an underpowered laptop for a long time. Not to make this into a support thread, but I would offer using the alternate install cd and installing the server edition. Then install something like flubox or jwm or enlightenment, etc.. really any other lightweight window manger sh

Re: Introduction & Eee PC

2012-01-12 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi, welcome to QA. Hmm, if lubuntu is still too big for you I can only suggest you try lubuntu-core (not lubuntu-desktop) which is the really stripped down version of lubuntu. Details of the 11.10 series of this can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/MinimalInstal

Introduction & Eee PC

2012-01-12 Thread Xelsior
Hello, Just joined the group. I've been a Linux user since the late 90's and an Ubuntu user since 07. I've contributed to some bug reporting and pages on the help wiki. At the moment I have AntiX on my Asus EeePC simply because Ubuntu was using too much memory. I had problems with Firefox maxing

Re: Introduction

2012-01-01 Thread Alex Lourie
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Scott wrote: > Hi, > >I am following the "How do I get Involved" on the wiki and it suggested > I introduce myself on this mailing list and list my goals and Interest, so > I am. :) > >I have been testing Ubuntu for a while now and based on the activities >

Introduction

2012-01-01 Thread Scott
Hi, I am following the "How do I get Involved" on the wiki and it suggested I introduce myself on this mailing list and list my goals and Interest, so I am. :) I have been testing Ubuntu for a while now and based on the activities list I like doing General Testing. I like to take a

Introduction

2011-10-28 Thread janak dev
hi everyone, Been using Ubuntu for quite some time. And now want contribute to it. I am doing my B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from NIT-Bhopal (India). I am very much interested in open source work. And want to be a part of the Ubuntu open source community. hope to work with you guys a

New member introduction

2011-09-17 Thread shariq murtaza
Hello, My name is Shariq (tuxer) .I have beenusing Ubuntu since many years I want to be the part of testing team in a healthy and active manner thanks Sincerely Yours, Shariq(tuxer) -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://list

Re: Introduction - Lee Boorse

2011-05-03 Thread Lee Boorse
Thanks Paolo. I'll be kind of scanning. It's in the middle of my work day, but I'll be trying to following along as closely as possible. See you in about 10 minutes. Thanks, Lee On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Paolo Sammicheli wrote: > Alle 01:02 del 3/5/2011, Lee Boorse ha scritto: > > Than

Re: Introduction - Lee Boorse

2011-05-03 Thread Paolo Sammicheli
Alle 01:02 del 3/5/2011, Lee Boorse ha scritto: > Thanks for the warm welcome and pointing me in the right direction. It > looks like desktop testing and iso testing may be the best places to get my > feet wet. Hi Lee, take a look to the Open Week Schedule (1); today at 15.00 UTC we'll talk abou

Re: Introduction - Lee Boorse

2011-05-02 Thread Charles Profitt
On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 13:24 -0400, Lee Boorse wrote: > Hi all. I just wanted to take a minute to introduce myself. My name is Lee > and I live in the Philadelphia, PA area. I started experimenting with > Ubuntu about 6 months ago and was blown away by its relative ease of > installation. I had

Re: Introduction - Lee Boorse

2011-05-02 Thread Lee Boorse
Thanks for the warm welcome and pointing me in the right direction. It looks like desktop testing and iso testing may be the best places to get my feet wet. Thanks, Lee -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listi

Re: Introduction - Lee Boorse

2011-05-02 Thread Patrick Wright
On 05/02/2011 10:24 AM, Lee Boorse wrote: Hi all. I just wanted to take a minute to introduce myself. My name is Lee and I live in the Philadelphia, PA area. I started experimenting with Ubuntu about 6 months ago and was blown away by its relative ease of installation. I had my Dell D620 se

Introduction - Lee Boorse

2011-05-02 Thread Lee Boorse
Hi all. I just wanted to take a minute to introduce myself. My name is Lee and I live in the Philadelphia, PA area. I started experimenting with Ubuntu about 6 months ago and was blown away by its relative ease of installation. I had my Dell D620 set up and running with no issue in about 30 min

Re: Introduction

2011-04-05 Thread Sergio Zanchetta
2011/4/5 Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía : > Hi. I'm a user of a laptop and Ubuntu for about 5 months now. Really > liked Ubuntu and want to help to make it better. I'm not a developer, at > least not professionally, i write some code when i need it, I'm a > mechanical engineer (student, but a year from

Introduction

2011-04-05 Thread Joaquín Ignacio Aramendía
Hi. I'm a user of a laptop and Ubuntu for about 5 months now. Really liked Ubuntu and want to help to make it better. I'm not a developer, at least not professionally, i write some code when i need it, I'm a mechanical engineer (student, but a year from graduation) so i'm used to technology and pro

Re: self introduction

2011-03-28 Thread Sergio Zanchetta
2011/3/25 oupamster > hi all, > > i'm new to this mailing list and would like to contribute as much as i can. > at the moment i'm learning python language and very much intrigued by > helping on the testing of ubuntu and identifying bugs along the way. i'm a > south african and i'm also a member

self introduction

2011-03-25 Thread oupamster
hi all, i'm new to this mailing list and would like to contribute as much as i can. at the moment i'm learning python language and very much intrigued by helping on the testing of ubuntu and identifying bugs along the way. i'm a south african and i'm also a member on the #ubuntu-za channel on the

Re: Introduction

2010-11-05 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
On 11/01/2010 10:01 PM, Charles Profitt wrote: > Hello all: > > My name is Charles Profitt (irc cprofitt) Welcome Charles, that's great to see you here! > > I recently went to UDS and learned about the QA and Testing teams. I > would like to join for two purposes. > > 1. To perform some QA wor

Re: Introduction Andree Wille

2010-11-05 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
On 11/04/2010 01:26 PM, 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). > Welcome to the team Andree, > I subscribed to this list to learn more about the qa ubuntu team

Re: Introduction Octavian Damiean

2010-11-04 Thread indigo196
Octavian: That is fantastic to hear that you are interested in giving back. Myself and two other members of the Beginners team just returned from UDS-N and testing is one of the areas we will be focusing on this cycle. I am hoping that we can, in the near future, be of assistance to folks looki

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

Introduction Andree Wille

2010-11-04 Thread Andree Wille
Hi, i'm Andree Wille from Hamburg, Germany. I'm working as a software tester (testing rest web services, web applications and mobile applications). I subscribed to this list to learn more about the qa ubuntu team and how the team works in order to figure out where i could help. -- Regards, Andr

Re: Introduction

2010-11-01 Thread Jeremy Foshee
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 05:01:43PM -0400, Charles Profitt wrote: > Hello all: > > My name is Charles Profitt (irc cprofitt) > > I recently went to UDS and learned about the QA and Testing teams. I > would like to join for two purposes. > > 1. To perform some QA work myself > 2. To learn more a

Introduction

2010-11-01 Thread Charles Profitt
Hello all: My name is Charles Profitt (irc cprofitt) I recently went to UDS and learned about the QA and Testing teams. I would like to join for two purposes. 1. To perform some QA work myself 2. To learn more about the QA team so I can help people interested in contributing to Ubuntu make a t

Introduction Octavian Damiean

2010-11-01 Thread Octavian Damiean
Hello, My name is Octavian Damiean. Here is a link to my Launchpad profile where you can find more personal information about me. I'm trying to start giving something back to Ubuntu by contributing in various ways (finally). With regards to testing I'm mostly interested in desktop testing, laptop

Introduction

2010-06-05 Thread Victor De Leon
Hi team: My ID launchpad is Victor De Leon i have already read the Triage Guide and i have experience doing test cases and QA for web enviorement. I want to start testing for ubuntu i wat to learn new things and help to others with this great OS. If you have comments or questions please let m

Introduction

2010-06-03 Thread DHARMESH PRAJAPATI
Hi Everyone, I am new joine this group for contributing like you guys are doing. @Myself, I am Dharmesh Prajapati , I have done my B.E in Electronics and communication. Currently I am developing Automation Tools for company's Network Security product. I have joined this group for knowing new te

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 > practicall

Introduction

2010-04-27 Thread Jeremy Di Salvo
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 everything and I love it! I hope to get involved in the t

Re: Hello and introduction.

2010-02-25 Thread Ara Pulido
On 02/24/2010 09:44 PM, Kyle Law wrote: > Hello All, > > I decided to help prelaunch testing due to I would like the release of > ubuntu to be as solid as can be. I figured that combined with what I > have learned in the short time I was in bugsqaud would help this come to > be. Every little big

Hello and introduction.

2010-02-24 Thread Kyle Law
Hello All, I decided to help prelaunch testing due to I would like the release of ubuntu to be as solid as can be. I figured that combined with what I have learned in the short time I was in bugsqaud would help this come to be. Every little big counts. Everything else that I have to say could be f

Re: introduction and testing

2010-01-11 Thread Ara Pulido
On 01/11/2010 05:32 PM, Kamus wrote: [snip] > Hola!, thanks for this information. I would like to add some words > because I registered just a few days > ago, so a really big hello word to everyone in this list. :) > Hola Victor! Welcome to you too! It is so nice to see so many new contributors

introduction

2010-01-11 Thread Remi Hachey
Hi all just to introduce myself My name is Remi Hachey I work for a it firm in new-brunswick canada I just joined unbutu-testing since I love ubuntu and I wanted to help out and since I'm not a programmer I tought I could give a help in testing I've been using ubuntu for 4 to 5 years now o

Re: introduction and testing

2010-01-11 Thread Kamus
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Ara Pulido wrote: > Hello Scott! Welcome! > > On 01/11/2010 02:35 PM, Scott Aughenbaugh wrote: >> Group, >> >> I just wanted to introduce myself. I work in DC (looking for other users >> for a launch party in April), and have done mainly web-dev/mac-tech work >> f

Re: introduction and testing

2010-01-11 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello Scott! Welcome! On 01/11/2010 02:35 PM, Scott Aughenbaugh wrote: > Group, > > I just wanted to introduce myself. I work in DC (looking for other users > for a launch party in April), and have done mainly web-dev/mac-tech work > for the last few years. I have been using Ubuntu since Gutsy an

introduction and testing

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Aughenbaugh
Group, I just wanted to introduce myself. I work in DC (looking for other users for a launch party in April), and have done mainly web-dev/mac-tech work for the last few years. I have been using Ubuntu since Gutsy and am interested in testing new candidates. I have been following the posts and loo

Re: New Member Introduction

2010-01-07 Thread Cameron Will
I'm in New York / Eastern Standard Time. And I'll be sure to check the IRC channel out. Thanks! Cameron Ara Pulido wrote: > 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 t

Re: New Member Introduction

2010-01-07 Thread Dave Morley
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 08:39 +0100, Ara Pulido wrote: > 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 tes

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 around

New Member Introduction

2010-01-06 Thread Cameron Will
Hey all, I decided a while ago to start giving back to the Ubuntu community, but I was unsure of where I could fit in to the community. I started out in launchpad answers, and then realized I had a couple computers lying around, just waiting for Ubuntu test releases to be put on them. I would love

My belated mailing list introduction

2010-01-05 Thread Scott Ritchie
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 Ritchie. I believe I met most of you that attended UDS, where I sort of have a reputation as

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

2010-01-05 Thread Ronald McCollam
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 23:28 +1100, Mitch Towner wrote: > Hi. My name is Mitch. I have recently signed up to the Ubuntu Testing > Team & this mailing list, with the goal of trying to contribute back to > Ubuntu. Hello and welcome! It sounds like you've got a lot of Ubuntu and QA experience al

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

2009-12-27 Thread Mitch Towner
Note to self - mailing lists do not like HTML emails. My apologies for the jumbled mess that was my previous post. Please see below for a properly formatted plain text version of my original introductory post. Hi. My name is Mitch. I have recently signed up to the Ubuntu Testing Team & this ma

New Member Introduction & Testing Wiki Mailing List URL Question

2009-12-26 Thread Mitch Towner
Hi. My name is Mitch. I have recently signed up to the Ubuntu Testing Team & this mailing list, with the goal of trying to contribute back to Ubuntu. I first started using Ubuntu a couple of years ago (7.04 Feisty release, I think) & I switched to being a full time Ubuntu user when 7.10 came ou

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&

My introduction

2009-12-13 Thread Scott Ritchie
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 Ritchie. I believe I met most of you that attended UDS, where I sort of have a reputation as

Re: My introduction

2009-12-09 Thread Ara Pulido
I would like to add that Grant has already started working on making LoCos involvement in testing easier by improving the documentation: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/LoCos Thanks Grant! Regards, Ara. On 12/08/2009 01:08 AM, Grant Bowman wrote: > Hello, I'm new to the QA list. I enjoyed

My introduction

2009-12-07 Thread Grant Bowman
Hello, I'm new to the QA list. I enjoyed meeting folks at UDS and look forward to contributing by involving more of the Ubuntu community in testing efforts, lowering the unnecessary barriers to entry for effective contributors. I look forward to establishing a record of contributions with this te