GCI 2017

2017-10-30 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
So ubuntu was selected. Popey is gathering ideas and mentors in this thread: https://community.ubuntu.com/t/google-code-in-next-steps-week-44/1218 As usual, QA tasks can work really well as part of GCI. I know several of you were mentors during 2015 during the last GCI ubuntu participated in.

I spy a quality section on community.ubuntu.com

2017-10-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I'm enjoying the new discourse site; have a look too: https://community.ubuntu.com/c/quality Nicholas -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: Converting lp:ubuntu-qa-tools from bzr to git

2017-10-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I suspect people might be more in favor of git vs bzr. You'd have to update all the documentation links, but everything could stay on launchpad. What's your motivation for the change? On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 10:00 PM, Steve Beattie wrote: > Hello, > > In the interest of converting the lp:ubuntu-q

Fwd: Change of scope and target market for i386

2017-09-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
This means 32-bit images / tests can also be removed from the isotracker. Nicholas -- Forwarded message -- From: Dimitri John Ledkov Date: Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:16 PM Subject: Re: Change of scope and target market for i386 To: Ubuntu Developers , ubuntu-release < ubuntu-rele...@

Re: ISO Testing Tracker and Artful

2017-07-26 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Whoops, didn't reply to the list. On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Nicholas Skaggs < nicholas.ska...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 07/24/2017 08:51 PM, Brian Murray wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 02:37:38PM -0700, Brian Murray wrote: >> >>> On Thu, J

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-04-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Alberto, I didn't see the artwork in question as I'm late to the thread. However I did look at the guide just now. I don't think you need any artwork on the page and as such I have removed it, given it's negative response in this thread. I can appreciate all kinds of art, but there's no reason

Fwd: Call for testing: Driverless printing on Zesty

2017-01-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I got to see a demo of this, pretty neat! Feel free to try it out if you've not seen this. Forwarded Message Subject:Call for testing: Driverless printing on Zesty Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 11:42:50 -0200 From: Till Kamppeter To: Ubuntu Developers Hi, Here

Re: LibreOffice and Java

2016-10-11 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 10/06/2016 01:28 PM, Ian Bruntlett wrote: Hi Eric et al., On 6 October 2016 at 18:19, Eric Adler wrote: FWIW I have a standard Ubuntu 16.04 installation and LibreOffice Version: 5.1.4.2 Build ID: 1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1, and the spell check works just fine. I have Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, install

Fwd: Yakkety Yak (16.10) Final Beta Freeze

2016-09-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Final Beta is already here! The milestone and images are ready to test on http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com for those inclined to pitch in. Yakkety ! Forwarded Message Subject:Yakkety Yak (16.10) Final Beta Freeze Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:16:55 + From: Adam Conrad To

SRU's Anyone?

2016-08-01 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Hello fellow Yakkers! Looking for something easy to do that doesn't require leaving your stable LTS version of ubuntu? Verify an SRU! http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/pending-sru.html For information on how, check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification. Nicho

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] CALL FOR TESTING: Mobile Data Toggle

2016-06-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Forwarded Message Subject:[Ubuntu-phone] CALL FOR TESTING: Mobile Data Toggle Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 16:43:03 +0300 From: Antti Kaijanmäki Organization: Canonical Ltd. To: ubuntu-phone Hello! As per popular demand, we now have an on/off toggle for mobil

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Testcases

2016-06-14 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 06/14/2016 03:32 PM, Brian Murray wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 06:34:42PM +0100, flocculant wrote: copied to release list On 14/06/16 18:27, Paul White wrote: ...snip ...Who, if anyone, looks at the *Ubuntu* test results? That was all i was really asking. I can't answer that question of

Re: Trackers - ~ISO and Package - flavours need to deal with this internally

2016-05-02 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 05/01/2016 02:30 PM, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: I am sure that Nick will jump in - once he sees this but ... Trackers. People from flavour release team need to make sure that they have permission to add products to their own tracker builds Dealing with ISO (package gets more complicated

Re: Upgraded from 15.10 to 16.04

2016-04-22 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Yakety! On 04/22/2016 11:11 AM, Eric Adler wrote: Peaches and cream, favorite gateau, Moet and Chandon on ice! -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Reflections

2016-03-15 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The joys of Spring (or Fall for our friends in the Southern Hemisphere) are now upon us. The change of seasons spurs us to implement our own changes, to start anew. It's a time to reflect on the past, appreciate it, and then do a little Spring cleaning. As I write this to you, I'm doing my own

Fwd: Ch-Ch-Changes for Core Apps QA

2016-03-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Forwarding along for those that may interact with merging code on any of the community core apps projects. Forwarded Message Subject:Ch-Ch-Changes for Core Apps QA Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 12:24:19 -0500 From: Nicholas Skaggs To: Ubuntu CoreApps Our quest to

Re: Automated Testing for Flavors -- Update

2016-03-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 03/09/2016 05:08 PM, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 09/03/16 21:56, Simon Quigley wrote: Flocculant, First of all, I would like to say thank you for providing input on this. There is no function implemented in the API to update the notice board (unless it is really REALLY subtle and I can'

Re: Automated Testing for Flavors -- Update

2016-03-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 03/09/2016 04:11 PM, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 09/03/16 20:59, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 03/09/2016 03:51 PM, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 09/03/16 20:43, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Sure. Each of the test runs are a 1 to 1 copy of a manual test. So, in the same way you would add a

Re: Automated Testing for Flavors -- Update

2016-03-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 03/09/2016 03:51 PM, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 09/03/16 20:43, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Sure. Each of the test runs are a 1 to 1 copy of a manual test. So, in the same way you would add a result, we'll have a bot account add a result with a Pass or Fail to the daily image. It should

Re: Automated Testing for Flavors -- Update

2016-03-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Could you explain more how the tracker will be able to store test results for each daily test? On Mar 4, 2016 3:44 PM, "Nicholas Skaggs" mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> wrote: It's been an up and down cycle with mostly failing Autopilot tests for Ubiquity au

Automated Testing for Flavors -- Update

2016-03-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
It's been an up and down cycle with mostly failing Autopilot tests for Ubiquity automated testing. I wanted to re-iterate Max's status updates as to what's going on so people understand what will exist for help with testing the final images for Xenial. What's been happening: Max has been worki

Re: Ubuntu QA Tracker API

2016-03-02 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 03/01/2016 11:25 PM, Simon Quigley wrote: On 03/01/2016 10:15 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote: Hi, Thanks for taking this over, I wrote the first version of the site almost ten years ago now and am quite amazed it's still being used despite people complaining about it for about as long as it exist

Re: LibreOffice 5.0.2.2

2016-02-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 02/13/2016 10:22 AM, Ian Bruntlett wrote: Hi All, Was using LibreOffice Draw to do some nice inlays for Ubuntu CDs (stored in DVD boxes) when Draw crashed, losing 10 minutes worth of work. This is the first time I've experienced a LibreOffice crash that I can remember. Would it be a good ide

Interested in becoming a GSOC mentor for ubuntu?

2016-02-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Ubuntu has applied for GSOC 2016, but we need project ideas for prospective students, and mentors to mentor them. Do you know an area of ubuntu that could use some love? Are you willing to guide someone else to accomplish your idea? If you can answer yes to both of those questions, we want to h

Re: Package Tracker - Admin for ~ubuntustudio-release Team

2016-01-28 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 01/28/2016 01:22 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 01/27/2016 02:14 AM, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 26/01/16 16:25, Ross Gammon wrote: Hi All, On 01/23/2016 08:47 AM, Ross Gammon wrote: On 01/22/2016 06:57 PM, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/admin/config

Re: Package Tracker - Admin for ~ubuntustudio-release Team

2016-01-28 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 01/27/2016 02:14 AM, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 26/01/16 16:25, Ross Gammon wrote: Hi All, On 01/23/2016 08:47 AM, Ross Gammon wrote: On 01/22/2016 06:57 PM, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/admin/config/services/qatracker/testsuites/add Once you have add

Fwd: Xenial Alpha 2 available for testing for select flavors, due Friday

2016-01-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Forwarded Message Subject: Xenial Alpha 2 available for testing for select flavors, due Friday Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 07:26:40 -0800 From: Walter Lapchynski To: ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com As you may have already noticed, the Alpha 2 milestone for Xenial Xer

Re: Ubiquity Jobs

2016-01-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Max, where can we see this output or re-create it? On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Max Brustkern wrote: > Some of the jobs right now are getting jammed up on errors serializing > things for publishing: > http://paste.ubuntu.com/14506063/ > Not all of them are getting this, so I'm not sure what'

Re: Package Tracker - Admin for ~ubuntustudio-release Team

2016-01-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
There is no Admin choice in the Navigation on the left, and typing in > the admin URLs manually don't work. > > I would really love to show off the manual test cases that the team have > been writing and get some testing happening :-) > > Regards, > > Ross > > On 1

Re: Package Tracker - Admin for ~ubuntustudio-release Team

2016-01-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Ohh, and it's http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/ not http://package.qa.ubuntu.com/ :-) On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Nicholas Skaggs < nicholas.ska...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hey Ross, there's no magic beyond being a member of the > ubuntustudio-release team. However, o

Fwd: GNOME Software in 16.04 LTS

2016-01-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Have some fun with this! Robert and the rest of the desktop team would love to get feedback and bugs. -- Forwarded message -- From: Robert Ancell Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:16 AM Subject: GNOME Software in 16.04 LTS To: "ubuntu-desk...@lists.ubuntu.com" Hi all, As you may

Re: Ubuntu Font Testing

2016-01-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
2016 01:29 PM, chris hermansen wrote: Ah OK, so to be 100% clear, is it worth checking this font out in Wily or only in its default configuration in Xenial? On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Nicholas Skaggs mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> wrote: Blargh! It's Xenial. Only i

Re: Ubuntu Font Testing

2016-01-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
. I should mention that this machine is upgraded from 15.04 (ie not a fresh install), in case that matters. On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Nicholas Skaggs mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> wrote: Chris, that's correct. You should have 0.84, which is the new ver

Re: Ubuntu Font Testing

2016-01-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
on. It tells me my Ubuntu font is: Name: Ubuntu Style: Regular Type: TrueType font Version: 0.83 Copyright: Copyright 2011 Canonical Ltd. Licensed under the Ubuntu Font License 1.0 Does this mean I don't have the new version? On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Nicholas Skaggs mailt

Re: Ubuntu Font Testing

2016-01-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
e madness by fixing the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFontFamily/Testing Nicholas On 01/05/2016 03:08 PM, chris hermansen wrote: Nicolas, that link redirected me to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Home?action=show&redirect=Ubuntu On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 1

Re: Ubuntu Font Testing

2016-01-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
me to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Home?action=show&redirect=Ubuntu On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Nicholas Skaggs mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> wrote: Some of you have been at this already, but either way, please have a look at the new Ubuntu Font if you are running Wi

Ubuntu Font Testing

2016-01-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Some of you have been at this already, but either way, please have a look at the new Ubuntu Font if you are running Wily. It has some fixes in it, specifically we need to verify 4 bugs + the Arabic and Hebrew fixes. Full details can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu Font Family/Test

Re: A philosophical question about ISO testing

2016-01-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 01/03/2016 11:42 AM, Router wrote: p.s. Just started from DVD with the PC set to UEFI. It started the UEFI install which does NOT match the test script. Should I fail the test because the sequence of prompts is not exactly per the script??? No, don't fail the test if it passes, but definite

Re: My hardware profile is added - Thanks!

2016-01-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 01/03/2016 09:57 AM, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 03/01/16 14:46, Router wrote: You are nearly there! You are on the right page :) You need to make a note of the web address of your hardware profile. I created one following steps A and B on the table for my Samsung NC10. In that case,

Re: Package Tracker - Admin for ~ubuntustudio-release Team

2015-12-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Sorry about that. I noticed both lubuntu and gnome didn't have permissions to edit there own products on the package tracker. I've corrected the issue in both cases. Let me know if you are still having trouble. On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Ross Gammon wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently become

Re: Fun stuff to test this month

2015-12-02 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 12/01/2015 05:24 PM, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 01/12/15 22:15, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: I thought I would share what's new and exciting in the Xenial world, and invite you all to do the same. This month I plan to play around with the new ubuntu font, I did that ...

Fun stuff to test this month

2015-12-01 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I thought I would share what's new and exciting in the Xenial world, and invite you all to do the same. This month I plan to play around with the new ubuntu font, zfs, and gnome-calendar. For ZFS, checkout: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/ZFS What is everyone else up to? Something l

Re: Google Code In - Documentation

2015-11-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
arate from the Help wiki task. I think we get 75 tasks as an org? I saw three, including mine, last night when I was logged in. Mike. On 11/20/15 9:08 AM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 11/19/2015 05:54 PM, Mike Lloyd wrote: Hey guys. I created a documentation task that will help go through

Re: Google Code In - Documentation

2015-11-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 11/19/2015 05:54 PM, Mike Lloyd wrote: Hey guys. I created a documentation task that will help go through and clean up help pages. For students to pick work from, I will generate a master spreadsheet of pages based off a site crawler, then each student can pick whatever page they want to revi

Google Code In Mentoring

2015-11-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
As you may have heard, ubuntu has been selected as a mentoring organization for Google Code In (GCI). GCI is a opportunity for high school students to learn about and participate in open source communities. Mentoring organizations create tasks and review the students work. Google then provides

Re: Fwd: Ubuntu Online Summit (3-5 Nov): Get your sessions in

2015-10-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 10/24/2015 04:18 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Hi Nicholas and Marc, [replying inline] Best regards Nio Den 2015-10-23 kl. 22:09, skrev Marc Deslauriers: Hi, On 2015-10-23 03:50 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 10/21/2015 12:08 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Hi Nicholas and Marc, Whoops, sorry for not

Re: Fwd: Ubuntu Online Summit (3-5 Nov): Get your sessions in

2015-10-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 10/21/2015 12:08 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Hi Nicholas and Marc, *Date and time* Wednesday would be the best day for me, and Thursday the second best day and Tuesday is not good at all. I don't know how to arrange a session, so I would rely on you to make it possible and book a time slot. http

It's show and tell time!

2015-10-22 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
UOS Time is here! UOS is the Ubuntu Online Summit we hold each cycle to talk about what's happening in ubuntu. UOS 15.11 will be on November 3rd - 5th. I'm writing to encourage everyone to not only attend, but to also consider presenting a session for the 'Show and Tell' track(1). Sessions ar

Fwd: Ubuntu Online Summit (3-5 Nov): Get your sessions in

2015-10-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
If you have an idea for a quality session, now is the time to get it in. Nio, Marc, let's make sure we get a session for startup disk creator :-) In addition, there's room for show and tell sessions. If you just want to show off something cool, or talk about a useful piece of software and demo

Introducing Pilot; an app for testing

2015-10-01 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Since the initial announcement of a Ubuntu phone, the community has been involved with finding bugs, fixing things, developing apps, and helping make the phone what it is today. As time went on, users have been asking for an easier way to help test new versions of Ubuntu, new core apps, new ser

Ubuntu Font Testing: Arabic

2015-09-28 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Some of you may remember the birth of the ubuntu font family during the 10.10 cycle. The time has come to finish that work as well as fix a few issues with the current font set. To start with, the design team has been working on Arabic, and is ready for some feedback on how the font looks and i

Re: replacing the Startup Disk Creator

2015-09-28 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 09/28/2015 08:22 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Den 2015-09-28 kl. 13:56, skrev Marc Deslauriers: On 2015-09-28 07:48 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Den 2015-09-21 kl. 18:03, skrev Nicholas Skaggs: On 09/19/2015 07:29 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 2015-09-19 07:04 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Hi Marc, My

Wily Final Beta Testing is here

2015-09-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
We we are little delayed in getting the milestone setup, but it's all now ready and waiting for your results. How can I help? To help test, visit the iso tracker milestone page for final beta, which is found here: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/346/builds. The goal is to verify

Re: replacing the Startup Disk Creator

2015-09-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 09/19/2015 07:29 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 2015-09-19 07:04 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Hi Marc, My standard ISP's mail server is down. So I tried to send this mail via Google's web mail interface. In my saved version of the mail, there is an attachment "SCC-test.ods", size 17692 bytes. I'll

Re: replacing the Startup Disk Creator

2015-09-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 09/18/2015 10:03 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: I disagree. The incredibly long list of Unetbootin bugs leads me to believe it's in a worse state than Startup Disk Creator: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unetbootin/+bugs?orderby=-id&start=0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unetbootin/+bugs?field

Unity 7 Bug Bonanza

2015-09-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Will Cooke has posted about an effort to get Unity in shape for the next LTS: http://www.whizzy.org/2015/09/big-bug-bonanza-16-04-lts/ "How you can help First of all we need help in triaging the bug list. You don’t need to be a superstar software developer to do this, everyone can help and con

Re: Fwd: Fwd: Proposed UOS date

2015-09-15 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
to listen to people who know several tools and can tell the difference between them and to consider which tools are reliable as well as easy to use. Best regards Nio alias sudodus at the Ubuntu Forums Den 2015-09-14 kl. 15:36, skrev Nicholas Skaggs: The next UOS is coming, and it will be for a

Fwd: Fwd: Proposed UOS date

2015-09-14 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The next UOS is coming, and it will be for an LTS. UOS is the Ubuntu Online Summit we hold each cycle to talk about what's happening in ubuntu. Now's a good time to think about what sessions would be helpful, and to plan to attend. Those of your who might be wondering what UOS is can also chec

Re: Amd 64 Server jeos on kvm test 1458 is oversized

2015-09-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 09/02/2015 04:20 PM, Brendan Perrine wrote: On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:06:26 -0400 Nicholas Skaggs wrote: We'll need a reply from the server folks to see if they want to maintain This is not about cd sized images this about the line saying -- 17 Check that the size of the installed syst

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Next generation of SDK

2015-09-02 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Those of you who are into phone development, or just curious, the SDK team would love some feedback on the new Ubuntu SDK. Check out the info below. Forwarded Message Subject:[Ubuntu-phone] Next generation of SDK Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 10:13:32 +0300 From: Zoltán B

Re: Where to clone kernel from

2015-09-02 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 09/01/2015 02:05 PM, Colin Law wrote: On 1 September 2015 at 16:38, Colin Law wrote: Hi, Hopefully this is an appropriate forum to ask this. Am helping to track down bug https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53071 which exhibits itself on my laptop running Wily. By installing kernels

Re: Amd 64 Server jeos on kvm test 1458 is oversized

2015-09-02 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 09/01/2015 05:33 PM, Brendan Perrine wrote: I find that after the gcc migration this is over the 800 MB provided in the testcase. Using the dialy iso from zsync http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/20150901/wily-server-amd64.iso.zsync I get 1.1 GB used. This was getting closer to th

Re: Package QA Tracker

2015-08-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 4:18 AM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote: > On 19/08/15 09:27, floccul...@gmx.co.uk wrote: > > On 18/08/15 21:44, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: > >> It can be setup anyway you wish. Historically it's been found useful > >> to retain the results for an e

Re: Volunteers needed -- Automated Image Testing for flavors

2015-08-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
t; beginning - sometimes. > > I would suggest to run the tests on real hardware. Running the tests in > the cloud doesn't seem to be really doable, if irqbalance keeps > crashing. If someone knows how to fix that, it might be a bit different. > > -- Sujee > > Am 01.08.

Re: Package QA Tracker

2015-08-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
It can be setup anyway you wish. Historically it's been found useful to retain the results for an entire cycle at once for packages. When we removed older results, we got duplicate bugs and it was harder to see what had been touched and what had not. It would be interesting to have a discussion abo

Some bitesize bugs for Manual Test Writing

2015-08-11 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I've noticed we have several bitesize bugs ready for aspiring test writers: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual-tests/+bugs?orderby=-datecreated&start=0 These tests are written in English, following a simple format. They populate the tests you see on *.qa.ubuntu.com and are used by ubuntu an

Re: Volunteers needed -- Automated Image Testing for flavors

2015-08-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/04/2015 10:40 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: I don't have experience with amazon aws/ec2, if theres something wrong, please correct me. I have a EC-2 instance. How to check if it supports virtualization? If you tell to run something on it and share the results, I can do it. Shrinivasan, if

Re: Volunteers needed -- Automated Image Testing for flavors

2015-08-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/04/2015 10:39 AM, Mike Lloyd wrote: I have two G5s, a G4 and a 4U G1 I can donate if someone wants to pay for shipping or hosting. Mike. On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 at 08:36 Nicholas Skaggs mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> wrote: On 08/01/2015 09:19 AM, Sujeevan

Re: Volunteers needed -- Automated Image Testing for flavors

2015-08-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/01/2015 09:19 AM, Sujeevan (svij) Vijayakumaran wrote: Hi, Am 31.07.2015 um 22:32 schrieb Nicholas Skaggs: -svij and shrini agreed to setup a test jenkins instance to help answer our lingering questions on what we need. Specifically they'll be looking at where should we host this? c

Re: Volunteers needed -- Automated Image Testing for flavors

2015-07-31 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/30/2015 04:14 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 07/29/2015 04:01 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Greetings everyone! I wanted to share some news about a renewed effort to restore automated installer testing of ubiquity using the daily images generated by cdimage. Up until last cycle, the images

Re: Volunteers needed -- Automated Image Testing for flavors

2015-07-30 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/29/2015 04:01 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Greetings everyone! I wanted to share some news about a renewed effort to restore automated installer testing of ubiquity using the daily images generated by cdimage. Up until last cycle, the images were being test automatically via a series of

Volunteers needed -- Automated Image Testing for flavors

2015-07-29 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Greetings everyone! I wanted to share some news about a renewed effort to restore automated installer testing of ubiquity using the daily images generated by cdimage. Up until last cycle, the images were being test automatically via a series of autopilot tests, written originally by the communi

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] [Call for testing] Wi-Fi Hotspots (Internet tethering)

2015-07-22 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Forwarded Message Subject: [Ubuntu-phone] [Call for testing] Wi-Fi Hotspots (Internet tethering) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:05:09 +0200 From: Jonas Drange To: Ubuntu Touch Hello everyone: we've been working on Wi-Fi hotspots which will allow you to share your

Core App Jenkins Migration

2015-07-19 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Greetings everyone! We're currently working with CI to migrate to an entirely new jenkins system for core applications. The overall process as you know it (jenkins builds, run tests, approves, merges) should stay more or less the same. However, the new setup will allow us to actually run on dev

Fwd: Qt 5.5.0 - bug fixing needed

2015-07-15 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Some good fun to be had testing the latest version of Qt! Forwarded Message Subject:Qt 5.5.0 - bug fixing needed Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:31:13 +0300 From: Timo Jyrinki To: ubuntu-devel , ubuntu-ph...@lists.launchpad.net Hi, Qt 5.5.0 is testable on wily fro

Some Quality Related Goodness

2015-07-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Just wanted to share a few things to make your Friday/Weekend a little brighter. First of all, if you've not checked out https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/start/quality/ recently, please give it a look. It has everything you need to add testing to your qml app, HTML5 app or scope. Adding tests to

Snappy Personal Desktop Sneak Peek

2015-07-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
At the recent snappy open house, someone asked about snappy personal. Ogra answered the question to say it was still a WIP and very very early, but it was technically possible to get a sneak peek. He's now kindly provided some instructions. Note, you need wily or at least ubuntu-device-flash fr

Re: Introduction of myself to the team

2015-07-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/03/2015 08:01 PM, Nathanael Olander wrote: This is just my quick introductory email to the Ubuntu Quality mailing list. I've been using Ubuntu as my only OS now for about 2 1/2 years, originally installing 11.10 back in February of 2012. Over the past year or so I've been curious about fi

Fwd: [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] Dekko builds now available in the core apps PPA

2015-07-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Just a reminder you can play with the core apps on a normal desktop! Forwarded Message Subject: [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] Dekko builds now available in the core apps PPA Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 10:27:16 +0200 From: David Planella To: ubuntu-touch-coreapps CC: Danie

Re: Snappy Open House

2015-07-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/01/2015 11:05 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 07/01/2015 10:24 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Introducing Snappy Open Houses! Snappy represents some new and exciting possibilities for ubuntu. Open houses are your chance to get familiar with the technology, while helping test and break things

*.qa.ubuntu.com downtime

2015-07-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Greetings all. IS is upgrading the servers for some of the domains under *.qa.ubuntu.com. The process should be quick, but you may experience some downtime for these sites today. Thanks! Nicholas -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Fwd: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] autopilot tests run windowed on the latest vivid-proposed image

2015-07-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
FYI, this describes the workaround as well. Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] autopilot tests run windowed on the latest vivid-proposed image Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 12:18:16 +0200 From: Michael Zanetti To: ubuntu-ph...@lists.launchpad.net Sorry, made

Re: Snappy Open House

2015-07-01 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/01/2015 10:24 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Introducing Snappy Open Houses! Snappy represents some new and exciting possibilities for ubuntu. Open houses are your chance to get familiar with the technology, while helping test and break things of course! We plan to do an open house before

Snappy Open House

2015-07-01 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Introducing Snappy Open Houses! Snappy represents some new and exciting possibilities for ubuntu. Open houses are your chance to get familiar with the technology, while helping test and break things of course! We plan to do an open house before each release as a chance for everyone to interact

Re: Wiki Map and how to find child pages

2015-05-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I'm late to the thread and moinmoin wiki is not my forte. I've been blessed with some help from others in the community to arrive where we are today. SO, that said, is there a way to automagically generate an index for our pages and keep it up to date? If yes, then consider me in favor. Also consid

The help app needs tests!

2015-05-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Can anyone help? Here's the bug(1). Daniel would love to hear from you! For help, there's a guide for writing functional HTML5 tests on developer.ubuntu.com(1). And for those who are fearful of autopilot, don't worry, the tests are written primarily using selenium :-) I'd love to see a new test w

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Fwd: QA Team on Live Q and A today @ 1600 UTC

2015-05-19 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I'm SO sorry, I got the time wrong. It's at 1700 UTC. I repeat, 1700 UTC. This gives you a bit more time.. See you there! On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > -- Forwarded message ------ > From: Nicholas Skaggs > Date: Tue, M

QA Team on Live Q and A today @ 1600 UTC

2015-05-19 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Max Brustkern and Leo Arias will be joining me and Michael Hall to talk about QA and anything else you might ask. Come and ask your questions in today's li

Re: Removing animation from the ubuntu software center

2015-05-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Saq, that's a pretty open question :-) It's also much more developer oriented, so I suggest asking the project maintainers and/or browsing the code yourself and hacking away. Either way ubuntu-devel is a better place to ask this. That said, good luck with hacking. Nicholas On Fri, May 15, 2015 at

Re: Automatic image testing

2015-05-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 05/06/2015 08:59 PM, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: Is this were the iso builds are being tracked when they are produced for testing? https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/vivid/view/Smoke%20Testing/ This is a better view, but yes: http://ci.ubuntu.com/smokeng/vivid/desktop/. That URL shows the jen

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Qt 5.5 early look

2015-05-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
For those who might want to play around with QT, 5.5 is interesting and full of issues to find! Forwarded Message Subject:[Ubuntu-phone] Qt 5.5 early look Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:51:00 +0300 From: Timo Jyrinki To: ubuntu-devel , ubuntu-ph...@lists.launchpad.ne

Re: Automatic image testing

2015-05-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 05/03/2015 06:53 PM, Elfy wrote: Prior to the vivid cycle I used to often check on jenkins daily, indeed had RSS feed for fails set up, just to check that things were at least working basically. Sometime around December these stopped working, and still show the last result as about 5 month

Re: Automatic image testing

2015-05-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 05/04/2015 11:37 AM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: Alberto Salvia Novella: I wonder if isn't working too. Brian Murray: > You are likely wrong, but its hard to tell given the limited > information you've provided. Look that the last listed moth is October 2014.

UOS 15.05 Test Writing Demo @ 1600 UTC today!

2015-05-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Join Rick, Carla, and Nekhelesh as they write some tests live for Rick's Ubuntu SDK application! http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1505/meeting/22468/my-app-testing-setup/ If you are curious about how to write tests, this is the session for you. If you miss the session, you can still catch the reco

UOS 15.05 Installer Session

2015-05-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
UOS 15.05 kicks off tomorrow with sessions of all types. I'd encourage everyone to look over the schedule, register and get ready to participate. http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1505/ Of particular interest is this installer session from Mathieu Trudel. I know many of you would be interested to t

Re: Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) released

2015-04-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 04/23/2015 01:57 PM, Ian Bruntlett wrote: On 23 April 2015 at 17:34, Nicholas Skaggs mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> wrote: Thanks to everyone who helped test, filed bugs, and in general made Vivid the release it is today! It's always nice to make a c

Fwd: Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) released

2015-04-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Thanks to everyone who helped test, filed bugs, and in general made Vivid the release it is today! Forwarded Message Subject:Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) released Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:19:05 -0600 From: Adam Conrad To: ubuntu-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com CC:

Test Writers Wanted!

2015-04-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Have you been sitting on the sidelines wanting to dip your toes into writing some automated tests? The terminal, calculator and doc viewer teams are all looking for some help on filling in holes in there testsuites as they add new features. In the case of the terminal application, the old tests

Re: Gearing up for 15.04 image testing

2015-04-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 04/13/2015 10:25 AM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: We're in the final stretch now! April 23rd will be the release date for vivid. With that in mind I would encourage everyone to prepare for testing the final images. The final image milestone should be created this Friday April 17th in prepar

Re: Install bugs on wiki improvement

2015-04-14 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 04/14/2015 12:01 PM, Brendan Perrine wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Overview/Install_Bugs It seems to mention apport-cli --save is only useful when you don't have internet access. Shouldn't it also say if X11 fails to start on the installer for an iso but you do have network access y

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