Gearing up for 15.04 image testing

2015-04-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
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 preparation. The release team will continue testing and iter

Fwd: Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) Final Beta released

2015-03-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Forwarded Message Subject:Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) Final Beta released Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:01:04 -0600 From: Adam Conrad To: ubuntu-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com CC: ubuntu-rele...@lists.ubuntu.com The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final b

Re: New qml testing tutorials!

2015-03-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 03/23/2015 12:12 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: Nicholas Skaggs: Most of what you see is agnostic in the fact that it's the same as TestCase. However, UbuntuTestCase adds a few things to make your life easier. Yes, they seem to make life easier. Do you know why the TestClase

Final Beta Testing Week

2015-03-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
It's here! Final beta images and milestone will be appearing on the tracker by early tomorrow AM UTC. Look for the milestone under vivid on http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/. Plan to help test by grabbing the images when they hit the tracker and reporting your results! I'll post again when the milesto

Re: New qml testing tutorials!

2015-03-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 03/18/2015 12:08 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: Nicholas Skaggs > https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/apps/quality/ Why are the functions of the "UbuntuTestCase" class separated from the "TestCase" class? Couldn't be these platform agnostic? Alberto, Ub

New qml testing tutorials!

2015-03-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Checkout the complete testing story for qml apps now on developer.ubuntu.com! https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/apps/quality/ The example application has been covered with best practices for test writing, and includes guides to help you write unit and integration tests in qml for your applicati

Stopping core apps review mass mailings

2015-02-26 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
As of now, those of you who are members of the ubuntu core apps drivers or ubuntu core apps test writers teams will notice you are no longer being mass mailed for each review and bug that hits the core apps projects. Instead a new team called core apps reviewers is handling this role. The mail

Beta 1 Testing for flavors

2015-02-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Beta 1 Testing is going on this week for release this Thursday. Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, UbuntuGNOME , Ubuntu MATE, Xubuntu, and Ubuntu Studio are all taking part. Look for the milestone to appear http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/ very soon. I trust someone

Re: Community Council catchup - QA Team

2015-02-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 02/16/2015 12:25 PM, Elfy wrote: On 24/10/14 10:47, Elfy wrote: Hello all, The Community Council is scheduling meetings over the next cycle with the various teams, councils and boards in the Ubuntu community. The meeting with QA is scheduled for 19th February @ 17:00UTC. For more informa

Re: Feedback from the QA Jam in San Francisco

2015-02-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
First of all, thank you Liz for taking the time to write this up and sharing your experiences! On 02/10/2015 09:43 PM, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote: Hi everyone, First off, I want to thank elfy, knome and balloons for their work in reviewing the QA documentation in the lead up to the Ubuntu Globa

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team announcement: ubuntu-rtm milestone changes

2015-02-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 02/13/2015 02:32 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: Re: QA signing off on silos and such, how do we participate? This is an excellent question. You can certainly follow along (even grabbing the silos and testing them as well if you wish!), but the timeframe for testing can be short. It's specific

Re: would like to help

2015-02-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 02/14/2015 09:42 AM, michael john wrote: I would like to help in the testing of ubuntu. and to assist in the triaging of bugs. Michael, welcome! Do have a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Roles/ for help on getting started. Hop on IRC to chat o

Re: Is fixing bugs a responsibility of this team?

2015-02-12 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 02/11/2015 06:35 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: Pasi Lallinaho: From my point of view, fixing bugs is not one of the intended (primary) activities for QA team developers. Nor is it a "supporting task" by definition; supporting tasks are something that are either highly recommended or othe

Fwd: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Call for testing: Reminders Offline mode.

2015-02-12 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Call for testing: Reminders Offline mode. Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 10:58:03 +0100 From: Michael Zanetti To: ubuntu-ph...@lists.launchpad.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One more note to hopefully

Fwd: Call for testing: GTK 3.15.4

2015-02-11 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Some good classic desktop fun and testing. Have at it if you've not played yet. Forwarded Message Subject:Call for testing: GTK 3.15.4 Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 17:22:35 + From: Iain Lane To: ubuntu-desk...@lists.ubuntu.com CC: lars.uebernic...@canonical.c

Re: Unity 8 Desktop Testing

2015-02-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 02/05/2015 12:31 PM, Colin Law wrote: On 5 February 2015 at 17:06, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: An excellent way to spend your global jam hours this weekend is to test something likely new to many of you, unity8 on the desktop. This wiki has all the information you need. Most importantly of all

Unity 8 Desktop Testing

2015-02-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
An excellent way to spend your global jam hours this weekend is to test something likely new to many of you, unity8 on the desktop. This wiki has all the information you need. Most importantly of all you don't need to download and image or be running the development version of ubuntu in order t

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Dekko Email Client call for testing

2015-02-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Forwarded Message Subject:[Ubuntu-phone] Dekko Email Client call for testing Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 20:56:50 + From: Alan Pope To: ubuntu-phone Hi all, If you have a device running Ubuntu then you can really help out by testing the latest build of dekk

Trusty 14.04.2 Testing

2015-02-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Trusty 14.04.2 will be released on Feb 5th, a mere 2 days away. Help finalize the images on the isotracker by downloading and testing them on your machine. The milestone can be found here: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/332/builds For help with the tracker, check out: https://wi

Re: package tracker

2015-01-29 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 01/25/2015 10:32 AM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Elfy wrote: On 25/01/15 15:19, Walter Lapchynski wrote: hey, i just noticed this. how do we get LXDE in there? Why would the package tracker have a desktop environment test? Is that not tested when you boot with

Re: Social Media Channels

2015-01-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
If anyone else would like to step in and help shepherd or enhance some of these social media groups, feel free to contact me. I cannot be active on every social media channel :-) Nicholas On 01/22/2015 07:20 PM, Ali Linx wrote: Hi Pasi, On 01/23/2015 10:21 AM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote: On 2015-

Re: Hardware related test cases.

2015-01-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I've added an entry for vivid; feel free to use any daily build and report results. http://laptop.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/330/builds The important thing is to test early and often, and file good bug reports. Doing this provides the best chance at having the issue fixed before relea

Hold a Ubuntu Global Jam event; with testing!

2015-01-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I'd encourage you all to meet up with other local ubuntu enthusiasts and be a part of ubuntu global jam. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam One of the best activities you can do of course is help out by testing. Fortunately there's a wonderful guide on the ubuntu global jam site to help

Re: Hardware related test cases.

2015-01-22 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Gaberial, downloading and running the current image of vivid is an excellent way to avoid the bug in the future by letting developers know about it know, rather than later. Check out: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/DevelopmentSetup and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Roles/Tester Nicholas On

Re: Reporting bugs for packages in the ubuntu-manual-test

2015-01-22 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 01/22/2015 01:38 PM, Elfy wrote: On 22/01/15 18:22, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: You have a point. I picked Vino and Remmina, because 1) I like VNC networking, and did not want to cower away from learning something new 2) I started with these packages as an attempt to began contributing manual

Re: New Tester Introduction

2015-01-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 01/18/2015 06:04 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote: Greetings Everyone, I'm Anthony a long-time x/Ubuntu user and even long-time general Linux user (my first distro was Redhat Linux back in 2001). I've wanted to get involved in the project for a while now but, though I'm a professional software dev

Alpha 2 Milestone testing

2015-01-20 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
For participating flavors, alpha 2 images are coming online. Keep an eye on the milestone and test your favorite flavor as images arrive. http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/329/builds Alpha 2 should be released on Thursday. Thanks! Nicholas -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-qua

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Music App update r780

2015-01-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Another opportunity to test some updates to the core apps :-) Nicholas Forwarded Message Subject:[Ubuntu-phone] Music App update r780 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:38:44 + From: Alan Pope To: ubuntu-phone Hi all, The community Music app developers Andrew

Re: Hi there

2014-12-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 12/02/2014 11:22 PM, Xavier Brenner wrote: Hi there, I have had long time doing of prerelease beta testing for windows. Sent from my iPhone Xavier, sorry for the delayed response. I trust you are settling in and have found the opportunities and the wiki. What interests you? Have you setup

Quality Opportunities for Vivid

2014-12-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I wanted to write everyone to let them know about what opportunities exist right now for quality efforts. Generally the first part of the cycle is a bit slower for QA as we all take a needed break to refocus and plan after the release. With vivid now well underway things are ramping up! I wante

Re: Introducing myself to the Ubuntu Community

2014-12-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Nikola, hello! Happy to hear from you. Since you are interested in programming and are learning python, I would recommend learning to write some autopilot tests. As luck would have it, this week is the core apps hack days, http://developer.ubuntu.com/2014/12/year-end-core-apps-hack-days/. Hop

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Year End Core Apps Hack Days!

2014-12-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
As part of this, I'll be doing a ubuntu on air session about writing tests for the core apps. This will take place next Weds at 1800 UTC on ubuntuonair.com If you are curious about writing automated test cases for the core apps, please feel free to contact me! The core apps developers welcome

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Call for Testing: Unity8 Full Shell Rotation

2014-11-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 11/21/2014 01:43 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: i'd love to do this but i have a non-"canonical" (hahahah!) device. there's supposedly a port but the info's outdated/missing. i've written the maintainer to no avail. any further ideas? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices/p3110 :-( I know, it's

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Call for Testing: Unity8 Full Shell Rotation

2014-11-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
If you have device, give this a shot! Forwarded Message Subject:[Ubuntu-phone] Call for Testing: Unity8 Full Shell Rotation Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:50:14 -0600 From: Kevin Gunn To: ubuntu-phone Hi all, First, thank you for considering to participate in th

Re: contains introduction, ignorable

2014-11-14 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 11/12/2014 09:17 PM, Cameron Whiting wrote: Hi! I'm Cameron Whiting! Have I reached life forms? I would _love_ to help out with software testing. When I saw ci.ubuntu.com I thought it was **awesome** (can I play with THAT? XD). I'll be doing an ISO test from advice/links I got from Mr. Skagg

Fwd: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Call for Music Remix testing - new build

2014-11-12 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Call for Music Remix testing - new build Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:08:01 + From: Alan Pope To: ubuntu-phone Hi again, On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Alan Pope wrote: The Music app developers have been wo

Re: Quality Related UOS Sessions

2014-11-12 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 11/05/2014 09:15 AM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: First of all, in case you didn't know UOS is coming up! http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1411/ What's UOS? Ubuntu Online Summit is the continuation of UDS in a virtual and online format. It allows anyone to participate and discuss topics tha

Displayport Testing Request

2014-11-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
If you have an Intel VGA with DisplayPort 1.2 and either * 2 DisplayPort 1.2 MST-enabled displays in a daisy-chain configuration, or * a DisplayPort 1.2 MST-enabled hub connected to 2 regular DisplayPort monitors. there's a sticky bug the kernel team would like to see more testing on. Check o

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Call for Music Remix testing

2014-11-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Slightly delayed, but this is still relevant. If you have a device, test this! Nicholas Forwarded Message Subject:[Ubuntu-phone] Call for Music Remix testing Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 12:19:47 + From: Alan Pope To: ubuntu-phone Hi, The Music app develope

Re: Quality Related UOS Sessions

2014-11-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I've already added another session. I know many of you are excitied about the phone, but what about the desktop? I'd like to encourage us to work more closely with the unity 8 desktop developers this cycle and get some nice testing and feedback delievered to them, along with helping them develop so

Quality Related UOS Sessions

2014-11-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
First of all, in case you didn't know UOS is coming up! http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1411/ What's UOS? Ubuntu Online Summit is the continuation of UDS in a virtual and online format. It allows anyone to participate and discuss topics that surround ubuntu in a wider setting. Use it to engage other

Re: *.qa.ubuntu.com is down

2014-11-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 11/03/2014 02:21 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 10/30/2014 04:12 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: The iso, package and hardware trackers along with the site are all down and with no current ETA. The sites are offline in response to "drupalgeddon" which has affected many drupal sites.

Re: *.qa.ubuntu.com is down

2014-11-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 10/30/2014 04:12 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: The iso, package and hardware trackers along with the site are all down and with no current ETA. The sites are offline in response to "drupalgeddon" which has affected many drupal sites. The Drupal project recommends rebuilding all

Re: Hello

2014-11-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 11/03/2014 10:09 AM, Ian Bruntlett wrote: Hi All, Den 2014-11-03 15:39, Nicholas Skaggs skrev: CC'ing the list as this is useful for all. cdimage is still up and you can find the images there. Specifically for ubuntu check out; http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ I note

Re: Hello

2014-11-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 11/03/2014 09:19 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: Hi Nicholas, Where do we get the daily iso files, now that http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/ is not available? Best regards Nio CC'ing the list as this is useful for all. cdimage is still up and you can find the images there. Specifically for ubuntu check out;

Re: Hello

2014-11-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 11/02/2014 06:13 PM, Tabor Kvasnicka wrote: Hello. My name is Michael Kvasnicka, but I am referred to by my middle name, Tabor. I have been using Ubuntu since 12.04, and I love it; I use it every day. Ubuntu has given me many joyful moments in my life, and I have decided that I would like to

*.qa.ubuntu.com is down

2014-10-30 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The iso, package and hardware trackers along with the site are all down and with no current ETA. The sites are offline in response to "drupalgeddon" which has affected many drupal sites. The Drupal project recommends rebuilding all sites and restoring all drupal instances with a backup from before

Re: Final Image Testing for Utopic!

2014-10-22 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The aforementioned bugs should all be fixed and the release team has respun the images. Please update your images and test them again. Confirm the bugs are fixed and nothing else has regressed. If you've not yet submitted a result, please do so now. We need positive results as well! Thanks and hap

Re: Final Image Testing for Utopic!

2014-10-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
anks so much for testing! Nicholas On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > Hi Nicholas, > > On 21 October 2014 16:19, Phill Whiteside wrote: > > > On 21 October 2014 16:08, Nicholas Skaggs > > > wrote: > > > > > Thanks to everyo

Re: Final Image Testing for Utopic!

2014-10-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
gt; offers a ppa which gives a clean installation of the needed (proprietary) > drivers. > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:41 PM, chris hermansen > wrote: > >> Nicholas and list, >> >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Nicholas Skaggs < >> nicholas.ska...@cano

Re: Final Image Testing for Utopic!

2014-10-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 10/16/2014 03:03 PM, Colin Law wrote: On 16 October 2014 19:17, chris hermansen wrote: Nicholas, list; One problem I have run into that I'm not clear on how to report - it seems that my NVIDIA 750 is not correctly supported and I am put in a really low-resolution graphics mode. In fact, so

Re: Final Image Testing for Utopic!

2014-10-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 10/10/2014 11:54 AM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: We're just about a week away from the first RC images for utopic hitting the image tracker. Please plan to help test the images as they appear. RC images should appear on the tracker by Oct 17th and no later than October 20th. Never test

Unity 8 Images

2014-10-14 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
People often ask about unity 8, so I thought I would share a post by Will Cookie what the future looks like for unity 8. He also shares how you can both get a sneak peak at what's happening, and participate in filing bugs, finding issues, and giving feedback. http://mhall119.com/2014/10/unity-

Final Image Testing for Utopic!

2014-10-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
We're just about a week away from the first RC images for utopic hitting the image tracker. Please plan to help test the images as they appear. RC images should appear on the tracker by Oct 17th and no later than October 20th. Never tested an image before? Checkout the information on the wiki,

Re: Release model

2014-10-02 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 10/02/2014 12:28 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: Do you know if Ubuntu is going to jump into a semi-rolling release model? It would be good to know for planning it advance. I would say that happened when the initial rolling release discussion happened and the release team made the chan

Utopic Final Beta Testing Report

2014-09-26 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The testing report for utopic final beta has been published to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/ReleaseReports/UtopicBeta2TestReport Thanks again to everyone who helped in testing this release! Nicholas -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Fwd: Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) Final Beta released

2014-09-26 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Thanks to everyone who contributed test results for this release! Forwarded Message Subject:Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) Final Beta released Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:30:26 -0600 From: Adam Conrad To: ubuntu-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com CC: ubuntu-rele...@lis

Re: Final Beta 9/22 - 9/25

2014-09-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 09/17/2014 12:03 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Final Beta is fast approaching. The first images to be generated for testing should happen next Monday, with the a planned release on Thursday Sept 25th. Plan to help test the images as they appear next week. I'll follow up with further e

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Call for testing: system-image 2.4

2014-09-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Forwarded Message Subject:[Ubuntu-phone] Call for testing: system-image 2.4 Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:29:08 -0400 From: Barry Warsaw Organization: Ubuntu To: ubuntu-phone system-image is the core component that handles the client side of image based upgrad

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 16.09.14

2014-09-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The first image from ubuntu-rtm has landed. This is the image intended to be released to our OEM partners for shipping devices. If you have a device, flash the ubuntu-rtm image and then checkout https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/TouchTesting to help test and dogfood the images! Thanks, Nichola

Final Beta 9/22 - 9/25

2014-09-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Final Beta is fast approaching. The first images to be generated for testing should happen next Monday, with the a planned release on Thursday Sept 25th. Plan to help test the images as they appear next week. I'll follow up with further emails once the images are ready. Never tested an image b

Beta 1 Testing this week!

2014-08-26 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Beta 1 Testing is going on this week. Ubuntu is not participating, but many flavors are. You can find the builds on the tracker under the beta 1 milestone: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/322/builds As of this writing, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Gnome and Ubuntu Kylin builds are already on

Translations Help and Testing

2014-08-25 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
As we continue to iterate on new ubuntu touch images, it's important for everyone to be able to enjoy the ubuntu phone experience in their native language. So we need translations! If you've never contributed a translation before, this is a perfect opportunity for you to learn. To help with tha

Re: RTM Ubuntu Touch images for testing through a VM?

2014-08-22 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/19/2014 09:04 AM, NothingMuch HereToSay wrote: So I heard about the uncertain bad news regarding an RTM branch on an article regarding this RTM thing. http://gigjets.com/08/17998-ubuntu-touch-rtm/ Is there a way to test out armhf or arm64 builds on a desktop VM? Or would the i386 versions

Re: Utopic netboot bug

2014-08-12 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/10/2014 07:07 PM, Robert Finley wrote: I have noticed that my test results containing bug #1352252 still show up on the iso tracker despite this bug having been taken care of. What do you mean? The tracker keeps all records; so your results will always be there and show the bug existed on

Re: Where should this be submitted?

2014-08-12 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/09/2014 01:34 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: In there's an updated Ubuntu colour palette for Inkscape that will also be good having it for GIMP, but I'm unsure where it should be submitted for the last case. Any idea? Thanks

Re: New team member

2014-08-12 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/10/2014 04:49 PM, Jackson Doak wrote: Testdrive usually overwrites the vm and the iso whenever a new one is downloaded, you rarely have to keep the images. On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 5:03 AM, brendanperrine wrote: I am, Brendan Perrine, a new team member to Ubuntu Quality but have helped

Re:

2014-08-12 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/11/2014 04:48 AM, Bear Me wrote: Hi all! If all you guys have time I'd ask you to answer my question. Yesterday I've decided to downgrade 14.10 Utopic Unicorn to 14.04. I had 3 partitions on my 160 Gb HDD - 1st (1gb) linux swap, 2nd - 50 Gb ext4 linux partition 100 Gb NTFS with my data (

Re: New to Ubuntu Quality

2014-08-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Welcome Alex! If you've not yet seen the wiki, have a look through all the information provided there, especially the roles page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Roles This should help you understand what types of activities are available and help guide you on starting some of them. Please feel

Re: Can not add PPA for autopilot

2014-08-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Thanks for pointing this out! I updated the page, but the ppa is now ppa:autopilot/1.5 If you are running on utopic, you don't need the ppa as autopilot it in the archive. The documentation can be found here: http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/devel/ubuntu-14.10/python/autopilot/ Also, don't f

Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS Testing this week

2014-08-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Grab some precise images, they are appearing on the tracker as I write this email, ready for testing. Should you find something critical, please report it. Thanks! Nicholas Forwarded Message Subject:Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 14:14:41 -0400 From: S

Re: Howdy all!

2014-08-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 08/03/2014 01:47 PM, NothingMuch HereToSay wrote: I'm new to this whole QA thing, so far the only previous I guess would be considered "QA work" would be a bugfix that I tested (didn't fix) regarding AMD APUs. That's pretty much it, really, but I'd love to test out other things too! I'm still

Fwd: Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) alpha-2 released!

2014-08-01 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Forwarded Message Subject:Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) alpha-2 released! Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 22:50:23 -1000 From: Iain Lane Reply-To: ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com To: ubuntu-devel-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com - The Unicorn looked dreamily a

Re: Writing manual tests

2014-07-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Thanks for the contribution Shrinivasan! You can find out more about contributing testcases to ubuntu on the following wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/ContributingTestcases/ Of course, feel free to ask questions as you already have :-) Thanks! Nicholas On 07/24/2014 10:40 AM, Shr

Re: QA lightning talks July 24th @ 1330 UTC

2014-07-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/21/2014 10:18 AM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: QA lightning talks are happening again this week! Checkout the talks on ubuntuonair.com this Thursday, July 24th, at 13:30 UTC. - Martin Pitt will talk about autopkgtests - Manuel de la Peña will be talking about gtest. PS, You can see old

Trusty 14.04.1 Testing this week

2014-07-22 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The first point release for trusty is releasing this week. This release will be the default upgrade path for precise users. The upgrade path from precise -> trusty is important. Help with testing the images as well as upgrades is most appreciated.You will find builds appearing at the link below

QA lightning talks July 24th @ 1330 UTC

2014-07-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
QA lightning talks are happening again this week! Checkout the talks on ubuntuonair.com this Thursday, July 24th, at 13:30 UTC. - Martin Pitt will talk about autopkgtests - Manuel de la Peña will be talking about gtest. PS, You can see old lightning talks here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/L

Re: Utopic test writing hackfest

2014-07-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/14/2014 01:55 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 06/26/2014 03:51 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: In addition to the bug hug + testing days, I'd like to also schedule some hackfests to get our tests in shape. What's a hackfest? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Hackfest We have some o

Re: Utopic test writing hackfest

2014-07-14 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 06/26/2014 03:51 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: In addition to the bug hug + testing days, I'd like to also schedule some hackfests to get our tests in shape. What's a hackfest? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Hackfest We have some outstanding needs on both the automated and m

Re: Utopic Bug Hug and Testing Day, July 10th 1900 UTC

2014-07-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/09/2014 03:51 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 07/08/2014 03:39 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 07/08/2014 02:40 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: The first testing day of the cycle is coming this week on Thursday, June 10th. Elfy and myself will be giving demos and talking about running and

Re: Utopic Bug Hug and Testing Day, July 10th 1900 UTC

2014-07-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/08/2014 03:39 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 07/08/2014 02:40 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: The first testing day of the cycle is coming this week on Thursday, June 10th. Elfy and myself will be giving demos and talking about running and testing the development release of ubuntu. You can

Re: Utopic Bug Hug and Testing Day, July 10th 1900 UTC

2014-07-08 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/08/2014 02:40 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: The first testing day of the cycle is coming this week on Thursday, June 10th. Elfy and myself will be giving demos and talking about running and testing the development release of ubuntu. You can catch the action live on ubuntuonair.com at 1900

Utopic Bug Hug and Testing Day, June 10th 1900 UTC

2014-07-08 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The first testing day of the cycle is coming this week on Thursday, June 10th. Elfy and myself will be giving demos and talking about running and testing the development release of ubuntu. You can catch the action live on ubuntuonair.com at 1900 UTC. After the hangout, we'll transition to IRC

Re: Utopic Bug Hug (and testing!) Days

2014-07-08 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/07/2014 06:13 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: FIRSTS COME FIRST I believe the problem with triaging is to be too long, and not to make best practises obvious. So it looks like if we made a hangout it won't be make clearer which the triaging pro

Re: Utopic Bug Hug (and testing!) Days

2014-07-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 06/26/2014 02:56 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: I'd like to create a combination of the testing days and bug hug days we've done in the past. Let's have them on the same day as part of a collaborated effort. We'll work on bug triaging, while executing testcases and attempt

Re: ubuntu touch

2014-07-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/04/2014 05:32 PM, Andrew Grenier wrote: Hello, I'm Andrew. I recently made the switch from windows 7 to ubuntu and I am in love. Much more user friendly than red hat, which I used to attempt to toy around with back in the day. So I recently found out about ubuntu touch and I dont want to

Re: Adding a link to ubuntu-bug in the Quality contact page

2014-07-02 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 07/01/2014 02:49 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: You can have a look at the contact wiki-page after the edition, and suggest changes if properly. Looks good to me. Thanks Alberto! -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: introductory email

2014-06-26 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Andrea, seems your welcome email feel into the cracks of my client at least and no one gave you a proper welcome! So indeed, let me welcome you. I'm glad to see your enthusiasm for contributing. Testing is a great way to learn more about ubuntu and give back. I would encourage you to take a co

Utopic test writing hackfest

2014-06-26 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
In addition to the bug hug + testing days, I'd like to also schedule some hackfests to get our tests in shape. What's a hackfest? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Hackfest We have some outstanding needs on both the automated and manual test writing efforts. Elfy has already stepped forward to he

Fwd: Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) alpha-1 released!

2014-06-26 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
For those flavors who participated, and those who helped test to make sure the images worked, thanks! Nicholas Original Message Subject:Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) alpha-1 released! Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 15:34:08 -0400 From: Stéphane Graber Reply-To: ubu

Utopic Bug Hug (and testing!) Days

2014-06-26 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Greetings everyone. Summer is now in full swing for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere (and vice versa for our friends down south). The release cycle too is now well underway, with the first alpha wrapping up this week for those flavors who chose to participate. With that in mind, I'd like

UOS Sessions of interest

2014-06-11 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
UOS is happening this week, halfway through Day 2. I would encourage you all to participate in the sessions; have a look at everything here: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1406/all/ Of particular interest to us as testers I thought I would point out a few sessions; http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos

Re: UOS Users Track

2014-06-02 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 06/02/2014 02:54 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi, a couple of cycles ago I and kubuntu did a 30 minute session of ubuntu beginners. Whilst I'm happy to do another session with 'what, who and where' lubuntu is, is there a call for it? IMHO, each of the flavours should make time to say why the

UOS Users Track

2014-06-02 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
sions, to tips and tricks, and more, this track can provide something for everybody, regardless of skill level. Track Leads: Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph Nicholas Skaggs Valorie Zimmerman" I'm happy to be a track lead for this track along with Liz and Val. We are all inviting you to consider

Re: This needs attention

2014-05-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 05/27/2014 03:51 PM, C de-Avillez wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: On 27/05/14 16:56, C de-Avillez wrote: A technical opinion on a technical issue will rule out every other opinion until proved wrong. Summarizing: for confirming this bug, you need to p

Re: Hello from Columbus, Ohio!

2014-05-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Welcome Ken! As Alberto mentioned, have a read of the roles page and see where your skills and interests lie. You can hack on manual or automated testcases, or help do exploratory testing and bug triaging. Please ask questions, and don't hesitate to join us on social media and IRC; https://wiki.ub

Re: What is Autopilot, and how does it work?

2014-05-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
that grabs all the passwords > from the Ubuntu online account window, and send them by e-mail to someone > else? > > Cheers! > > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > >> Excellent video, hope you have got in embedded into the wiki area! >> >>

What is Autopilot, and how does it work?

2014-05-14 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
This is a non-technical video, and is targeted at folks who might be scratching there head when autopilot is mentioned on the mailing list. Give a watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En1MaDDp9_8 Nicholas -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or uns

Re: Introductory email - QA - Vasily

2014-05-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 05/10/2014 07:41 AM, Bear Me wrote: Hi everyone! My name is Vasily, i'm from Kiev (Ukraine) and i'd like to participate in Ubuntu testing I have 2+ year of software testing experience, but all products that i've tested were windows-based server applications for enegry distribution, so i thin

Utopic daily milestones are open!

2014-05-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I hope everyone has settled down now after the excitement of the trusty release and is looking forward to a utopic future! If you haven't yet upgraded your test machines to utopic, now is the time! The trackers are open for reporting, so if you are running utopic already have a run through the

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