Re: Introduction

2014-05-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 04/24/2014 08:26 AM, Damir B wrote: Hey everyone.You might have already seen my name around and that is because I have been a lurker for some time now but have only begun posting publicly recently. It was brought to my attention that I never introduced myself, so I thought I'd take the

Re: Introducing myself

2014-05-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 04/26/2014 05:43 AM, WIlliam Main wrote: I learned how to program assembler on a PDP-8 when I was 8 years old. I've programmed in Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, C, C++, C#, BASIC, Prolog, Haskel, Scheme, Lisp, Ruby and Python. I've used computers that were large enough to stand inside of (Modcomp, Di

Bite-size test writing opportunity!

2014-05-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Looking to get involved with writing an autopilot test for a phablet application? Try this easy bug on for size! Dropping letters, the word game, needs a test to check for game over conditions: https://bugs.launchpad.net/dropping-letters/+bug/1317214 Checkout the guide on the wiki for help get

Re: Ubuntu Open Week Underway

2014-04-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 04/23/2014 11:22 AM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Ubuntu open week is happening this week, with IRC and on-air sessions geared towards helping you get involved. Checkout the list of sessions and find more information at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek. For those curious about quality

Ubuntu Open Week Underway

2014-04-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Ubuntu open week is happening this week, with IRC and on-air sessions geared towards helping you get involved. Checkout the list of sessions and find more information at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek. For those curious about quality, there is a session today at 1800 UTC that serves as

Re: Ubuntu One

2014-04-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Damir, the file sync, music services, etc are shutting down, but ubuntu one identity service continues to exist. It's how we do all the SSO stuff and it's sticking around. So there might be packages left to provide these services I imagine. I've not looked to see what all exists. Nicholas On

Re: Ubuntu One

2014-04-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Gabor you are correct, and this is planned. For trusty, the final image won't include it and it will be phased about via SRU's to older releases if needed. Thanks for pointing it out. Nicholas On 04/16/2014 11:29 AM, Gabor Toth wrote: Thanks Admit, Good tip. While I am easily able follow th

Trusty Final Image Testing

2014-04-15 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Just a gentle reminder that the final images for trusty are being iterated upon this week, readying for release on Thursday. If you have not yet done so, please consider contributing a test result (positive or negative) to the tracker in support of the QA and release teams who are tasked with d

Final Milestone Testing

2014-04-14 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
This is it, it's release week! Here is the milestone. Images are trickling in and http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/314/builds If you need more information about what this is about, have a read! http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2014/04/trusty-release-week-get-your-test.html Nicholas

Re: Introducing myself

2014-04-14 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Welcome Wayne! You've come at an excellent time. As elfy suggested, do have a look through our wiki to learn more about the team and the roles you can undertake. However, this week is about testing the final images for trusty. Checkout the information posted to the list and join us! There's a g

Fwd: Final Freeze for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) at 2100UTC today

2014-04-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Original Message Subject:Final Freeze for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty) at 2100UTC today Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 14:05:47 -0600 From: Adam Conrad Reply-To: ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com To: ubuntu-devel-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com [ Another cycle, an

Remember IRC

2014-03-31 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Remember during this testing season, things will move quickly and testing shouldn't feel lonely. Sometimes, being able to chat in realtime really helps. Testing doesn't have to be so disjointed! Come join us on IRC anytime you are testing and chat. Ask questions, get help, or simply share what

Re: calendar-app test writers wanted

2014-03-31 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 03/31/2014 01:43 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: The calendar app is about to land some cool new features, and could use a test writer to help get tests in place for these features, including a couple that have slipped under the radar. Here's the list of 4 bugs with tests that are n

calendar-app test writers wanted

2014-03-31 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The calendar app is about to land some cool new features, and could use a test writer to help get tests in place for these features, including a couple that have slipped under the radar. Here's the list of 4 bugs with tests that are needed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-calendar-app/+bugs?

Re: Trusty Beta 2 Testing Report

2014-03-28 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Pierre and Dario, test against the daily build and file your findings and issues there. Thanks for helping out! http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/308/builds -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Call For Testing: Split Greeter

2014-03-25 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Original Message Subject:[Ubuntu-phone] Call For Testing: Split Greeter Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:50:20 -0400 From: Michael Terry To: Ubuntu Touch Hello! Â The split greeter feature is almost ready, so I wanted to get some wider testing. The "split gree

Fwd: Trusty Tahr Final Beta Freeze

2014-03-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Sending to proper list ;) Final beta is here! Time to test. The milestone can be found here: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/313/builds If you need help testing the images check out the links on the top of the milestone page, they are there to help. The goal is to verify the images

Re: Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps Hack Days and Desktop Testing

2014-03-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 03/21/2014 11:18 AM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Original Message Subject: [Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps Hack Days and Desktop Testing Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:31:56 + From: Alan Pope To: ubuntu-touch-coreapps , ubuntu-phone Hi all, We're having an

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps Hack Days and Desktop Testing

2014-03-21 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Original Message Subject:[Ubuntu-phone] Core Apps Hack Days and Desktop Testing Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:31:56 + From: Alan Pope To: ubuntu-touch-coreapps , ubuntu-phone Hi all, We're having another set of hack days next week. We're spending time focu

Re: Introductory email from a new member!

2014-03-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 03/18/2014 11:06 AM, Jeremie Carpentier-Roy wrote: Hello everyone! The steps on the QA Team page says to send a small email to introduce myself, and I like following steps; isn't it what makes a great tester? :P My name is Jeremie and I'm a software engineer from Montreal, Canada, and to cat

Some congrats are in order

2014-03-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I just wanted to offer some congrats to Senan, who I believe has set a record for the longest MP to finally land. Senan started last October on a test for disk usage analyzer and I was able to merge the test today after many reviews and tweaks (26 revisions by my count)! Senan, your perseveran

Re: vUDS Sessions - 1403

2014-03-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 03/05/2014 02:05 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: vUDS is next week, and I've planned some sessions that are of interest to us as a team. As usual, there will be a roundtable session, which is open for discussing anything that you would like to raise. Questions, concerns, comment

Image Testing for Beta/Final

2014-03-11 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
During the roundtable I posed the question of how we can ensure a healthy round of manual testing for trusty on the beta / final images. There's several things to keep in mind: -We have a list of defects found during the previous milestones (awesome work!): http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qa

Re: vUDS 1403 - Quality Community Roundtable starts in 40 mins!

2014-03-11 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 03/11/2014 01:19 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1403/meeting/22176/quality-community-roundtable/ Join in to discuss whatever's on your mind within quality. Nicholas Everyone is so quiet :-) If you have anything to discuss, feel free to ping via the mailing

vUDS 1403 - Quality Community Roundtable starts in 40 mins!

2014-03-11 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1403/meeting/22176/quality-community-roundtable/ Join in to discuss whatever's on your mind within quality. Nicholas -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-q

Re: Bug Weekend concluded

2014-03-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 03/10/2014 03:39 PM, Javier López wrote: In the other hand, I'd like to suggest to take a look at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OperationCleansweep I think it has the potential to fit better on these workshops. All listed bugs already contain patches, so it gets easier to inspect them, revie

Re: Introducing Myself (Simon)

2014-03-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Welcome Simon! I would encourage you to check out the roles page on our wiki for an overview of what we do and how we do it. From there, pick a role and some activities that look interesting and dive in. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Roles/ Do you happen to know any programming languages? If

vUDS Sessions - 1403

2014-03-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
vUDS is next week, and I've planned some sessions that are of interest to us as a team. As usual, there will be a roundtable session, which is open for discussing anything that you would like to raise. Questions, concerns, comments all appreciated! http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1403/meeting/22

Re: Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] 2014-02-21 Core apps update

2014-03-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 02/27/2014 12:32 AM, John Kim wrote: Hey Nicholas, Can you help me get started? I'm itching to contribute to the mobile sphere of Ubuntu. Thanks. On February 26, 2014 10:53:04 AM PST, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: There's some useful bits in here for those who might have miss

The big testing picture

2014-03-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I thought it would be useful, given the changes that have gone on each cycle, to update everyone with a very easy to understand view of how we test within ubuntu this cycle. http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2014/03/a-simple-look-at-testing-within-ubuntu.html I wanted to cover all the new CI bi

Re: 🐞 Ubuntu Bug Weekend will start this weekend

2014-03-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
This thread has derailed long enough. I've spoken with Alberto and he has agreed to stop sending non-plain text emails. I urge everyone to respect each other's time and wishes and stick to using simple text for ease of reading and retrieving messages. Should lapses occur I'll be forced to remov

App Developer Week -- Testing Sessions

2014-03-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
App Developer week is here, and of interest to us is a couple testing sessions being given by Michael Zanetti and Leo Arias. Michael will be covering 'Testing with QML Testrunner' and Leo will be talking about 'Making the perfect user acceptance test'. http://summit.ubuntu.com/appdevweek-1403/

Fwd: Recent improvements in autopkgtest, change of CI infrastructure next cycle

2014-02-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Original Message Subject: Recent improvements in autopkgtest, change of CI infrastructure next cycle Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:49:19 +0100 From: Martin Pitt Reply-To: ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com To: Ubuntu Development Announcements Hello Ubuntu d

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] 2014-02-21 Core apps update

2014-02-26 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
There's some useful bits in here for those who might have missed the update. We are always looking for folks interested in working alongside these teams in helping write and maintain tests for the core apps. Send me a mail and I can help you get started! Nicholas Original Message --

A community testing group for Ubuntu Touch Applications

2014-02-25 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
If you have followed along on g+, our app developer community has been busy creating all sorts of interesting and useful applications for ubuntu. With the platform shaping up, and more users starting to get involved, I wanted to announce an effort to help those application developers who want f

When submitting, remember to test

2014-02-24 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Just a gentle reminder to ensure you are running tests as part of your merges. If you are the submitter, make sure you have a test that covers your submission and that the entire suite passes. If you are the reviewer, the same applies. Please ensure the test suite passes before approving. Fo

Re: [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] Enabling Cmake for all the core apps

2014-02-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The goal of these changes, and my pushing for the click-buddy tool was to solve the app developer workflow. I want a sane and sensible workflow for app developers to make it easy and useful to incorporate testing into their development process. Changing to cmake, as Sergio mentioned, was to allow

Re: [Launchpad-users] Ubuntu Bug Week Announcement

2014-02-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: Why you choose not to participate? I was traveling back home from a Sprint sadly :-( So Alberto et la, let's plan the next event now. I think you've gotten some good feedback to make it a bit better next time around. Beta 1 is

Re: Enabling Cmake for all the core apps

2014-02-12 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
ock-app click-buddy --dir . or click-buddy --dir . --provision The --provision will push the click package to the device and ready it to run tests. Both will build a click package in the base directory. Enjoy your cmake goodness! Nicholas On 01/31/2014 05:03 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Today I d

Re: [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] Ubuntu Bug Week

2014-02-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
folks. Nicholas On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Thomas Ward wrote: > Wait, I'm confused here... > > > On Feb 6, 2014, at 11:54, Alberto Salvia Novella > wrote: > > Okay, so we are doing it *this Saturday*! > > You're saying this Saturday (two days from now).

Re: Ubuntu Bug Week

2014-02-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
! I am in > > Sergio Meneses > Linux User: #478743 > Ubuntu User: #24056 > > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Jack Ramsay wrote: > >> Let's go for it. I think it's a really good idea. >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Nicholas Ska

Re: Ubuntu Bug Week

2014-02-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Alberto, when did you think of doing this? I think it is a good idea, and I would recommend doing it before beta perhaps? 3 days is a long time; are there 3 days worth of tasks? I am not familiar with how bug days work, so I might be off here. Are there tools in place already for this (aka, unders

Re: Introduction

2014-02-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Howdy Hendrik! I'm happy to hear you want to help make ubuntu better. As Charles mentioned, starting out by running some tests is a good way to start. Check out the tester roles page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Roles/Tester If you are studying Computer Science, consider learning python. It's

Re: Introduction

2014-02-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Hello Steven, wonderful to hear from you. First of all, congrats on your degree! I'm sure you are quite happy to be done with school for the moment. We are a collection of testers, test writers, bug triagers, hackers, and generally cool people :-) First things first I would recommend diving in an

Enabling Cmake for all the core apps

2014-01-31 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Today I decided to finish bringing the cmake and click-buddy goodness to the rest of the core apps. Sergio had started with a couple apps; namely calculator and calendar. If you pull calculator or calendar and want to build or test the click package for it it's as simple as using click-buddy (

LTS Upgrades Testuite

2014-01-29 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I did some spring cleaning on the tracker, disabling/removing crufty leftover tests, and also adding an LTS upgrade testsuite (thanks for spotting elfy!). You'll notice LTS upgrades are now part of upgrade testing for ubuntu. I did not copy them to every flavor, as flavor needs might be differe

Re: Introductory

2014-01-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 01/22/2014 05:21 PM, Luca Biolcati wrote: Dear Friends, I've been using Ubuntu since 2008, when I used to use 'Intrepid Ibex' version 8.10. I think that the Ubuntu Community is a great invention. Everyone can share free software! It's the demonstration that when people work together the r

Re: Alpha 2 test, some thoughts.

2014-01-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 01/26/2014 02:55 PM, Dario Ruellan wrote: Just submitted a couple of automatic test. Some notes I wrote while testing: - System Testing - Some notifications and emergent windows lack focus, and get hidden behind the main window. I'm confused by what you mean. Can you elaborate? - I h

Re: Hello World

2014-01-27 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 01/26/2014 02:25 PM, Jonathan Thompson wrote: Hi, I am new to the IT and Ubuntu community and am looking to get my hands dirty on some projects. I have little to no coding ability, but some decent mathematical, writing, and direction-following ability obtained from my chemical engineering de

Work Achieved!

2014-01-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
First of all a big thank you to the following folks who have submitted fixes / new tests, both manual and automated in the past month! I tried to ensure all these merges were looked at this afternoon. There was a bit of a backlog after being away on Holiday. Sorry for the delay in processing th

Fwd: Trusty Alpha 2 Available for Testing

2014-01-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
FYI.. For those flavors participating Original Message Subject:Trusty Alpha 2 Available for Testing Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:40:13 + From: Jonathan Riddell Reply-To: ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com To: ubuntu-devel-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Core app hack days are coming back!

2014-01-23 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 01/22/2014 03:29 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: On 01/22/2014 03:16 PM, Carla Sella wrote: On 22/01/2014 21:12, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: I'll be around during these hack days as well. If you want to help contribute some autopilot tests or hack on the existing tests for these apps, plan to a

Re: Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Core app hack days are coming back!

2014-01-22 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 01/22/2014 03:16 PM, Carla Sella wrote: On 22/01/2014 21:12, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: I'll be around during these hack days as well. If you want to help contribute some autopilot tests or hack on the existing tests for these apps, plan to attend :-) Nicholas At what time will th

Re: Freshman to mail list

2014-01-22 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Welcome! As Jackson mentioned, review the roles page and decide which avenue(s) you want to pursue. We're all happy to help you with any specific questions. Sounds like you've got some rather nice experience you can bring to the table. Looking forward to working with you! Nicholas On 01/22/20

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Core app hack days are coming back!

2014-01-22 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I'll be around during these hack days as well. If you want to help contribute some autopilot tests or hack on the existing tests for these apps, plan to attend :-) Nicholas Original Message Subject:[Ubuntu-phone] Core app hack days are coming back! Date: Wed, 22 Ja

Re: Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] ANN: Ubuntu Core/Touch Android 4.4 support & touch engineering platform/devices/hardware going forward

2014-01-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Jack, I have a manta 10 (in fact I'm using it to test right now), so I know the pain. However, I'm most excited about the emulator. It will level the playing field for people who want to help test and contribute. I'm working on making it easy to use the emulator to help write and urn tests, and

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] ANN: Ubuntu Core/Touch Android 4.4 support & touch engineering platform/devices/hardware going forward

2014-01-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
News about changing supported devices for testing and development. In short, the new nexus7 is going to be supported, while the old nexus 7 and nexus 10 will be dropped. On the phone side, the older Galaxy Nexus is also going to be dropped. I hope this helps those of you who own the newer nexu

Re: 128 MB Ram computer

2014-01-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Just a friendly reminder to everyone that we don't have the luxury of personal interaction via this list, so be careful when choosing your words. It's hard to convey tone and meaning sometimes. I know it's tough for those who don't speak English as a first language :-) Think the best of everyon

Re: ubuntu-13.10-desktop-i386.iso: no mountable filesystem

2014-01-08 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
You might be surprised how much you can do with the command line only. You can play music and browse the web even using cli programs :-) If I had a machine that resource constrained, I would probably install ubuntu server on it and potentially X and a basic window manager (fluxbox perhaps) if I

Re: Bug Reporting Help

2014-01-08 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 01/07/2014 10:34 PM, Jack Ramsay wrote: Guys, I am currently wondering what package this should be reported against: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1244645 What is happening is that a file for intel backlight is not being created for x to be configured to use it. Given this is for in

Fwd: [Ubuntu-phone] Emulator + Autopilot = Win

2014-01-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I know folks have been asking and wanting to try this for some time now! Write and run autopilot tests even without a phablet device using the emulator! Check it out! Nicholas Original Message Subject:[Ubuntu-phone] Emulator + Autopilot = Win Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014

Re: Intro..

2014-01-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Wonderful to hear from you Adam! We can always use a spare hand in writing tests. Do have a look over this page as I think it will be of help to you on getting started. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Roles/TestWriter Since you mentioned Thunderbird directly, I would encourage you to work with

Re: Hello all

2014-01-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 12/26/2013 07:17 AM, Beau Warren wrote: Hello everybody My name is Beau, and after several times googling about linux and ubuntu, i finally have it running on my laptop. My main reason for installing was to start building android from source for my nexus devices, and from there my interes

Re: Not sure if this is the right place to post this. I'm introducing myself.

2014-01-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Welcome to the team Rob! I've been away on holiday, but I'm happy to see you wanting to join up! On 12/25/2013 11:42 AM, Robert Armola wrote: Like I said, I'm a gamer. I play mostly Final Fantasy and Zelda titles (mainly now because of FFXI and FFXIV eating all my time this past decade), but

Re: Team Calendar

2013-12-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 12/16/2013 09:53 PM, Thomas Ward wrote: John, If you go to the HTML version of the calendar, John, there's a "+GoogleCalendar" button at the bottom right. You can use that to add it to your Google Calendar. The HTML version is displaying the calendar, though. Nicholas, do you know whether o

Re: vUDS: Quality community-Run Testing Events

2013-12-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Quick point here that confuses me about this. What's with the * *Please, do NOT edit this table* on the first table? Elfy - This Propose an Event To propose an event, please edit this table only - *do not edit the a

Team Calendar

2013-12-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Several folks have been asking for an ical link to all the important dates for us as a team. I've taken the time to go ahead and create the calendar now. I'll ensure all the scheduled events are added as we go throughout the cycle. For now, the full release schedule is already included. Add it

Re: [Sandbox][Work Item] vUDS: Quality community-Run Testing Events

2013-12-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 12/16/2013 02:51 PM, Jackson Doak wrote: I've added an event, but it probably needs a shorted description, and better name. I can do this any day this month (today is the last day of school), so whenever suits you guys. Thanks Jackson! I added the calendar links to the header as well as

Re: [Sandbox][Work Item] vUDS: Quality community-Run Testing Events

2013-12-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 12/16/2013 02:27 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Nicholas Skaggs mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> wrote: On 12/16/2013 11:24 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: The pages are ready as templates, and the team needs to edit it wh

Re: New Contributor in the Ubuntu community/family

2013-12-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Welcome Shiyam! You might also be interested in the ubuntu touch work. Specifically the core apps which are written in qml/qt. You can hack on the apps and help write / maintain the tests for them. Check out the wiki and please feel free to ask questions! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/CoreApps

Re: An update

2013-12-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
All the best Ted! It should be quite an interesting experience for you, and anything is possible. Nicholas On 12/14/2013 01:12 PM, Ted Teddy wrote: Hello my dear Ubuntu people, Just wanted to update you on my current activities. From January next year, I and two colleagues are kick starting

Trusty Updates

2013-12-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Alpha 1 this week for participating flavors, green dashboards, Holidays and more! Find out what's been going on and what you can get involved in: http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/12/trusty-cycle-updates.html Nicholas -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify se

Re: [Sandbox][Work Item] vUDS: Quality community-Run Testing Events

2013-12-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 12/16/2013 11:24 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Nicholas Skaggs mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> wrote: Alberto, I agree :-) Do we have svg icons for these? As for the header, I tried to fix the width. It is a bit better now but the la

Re: [Sandbox][Work Item] vUDS: Quality community-Run Testing Events

2013-12-16 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
ram> Regards ? El 13/12/13 23:16, Ali Linx (amjjawad) escribió: On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Nicholas Skaggs <mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> wrote: Ali, so this has simmered for a bit and I think it's ready! Can you please implement this into the wiki direc

Tracking our work for Trusty

2013-12-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
We have our own topic again on status.ubuntu.com so we can all follow along with the work we are doing: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-t/group/topic-t-community-quality.html This should contain all the work items from this past vUDS. If you have a work item, please plan to work it and complet

Re: [Sandbox][Work Item] vUDS: Quality community-Run Testing Events

2013-12-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
st be a manual process to sync at first which is fine. Once the page is setup please share. I'd suggest a few of us subscribe to the page so we know when things change. Thanks again for setting this up! Nicholas On 11/21/2013 02:58 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Looks nice Ali, I have some feedbac

Core Apps features awaiting tests

2013-12-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
During vUDS we did a review of the core apps tests. One of the takeaways was a review to ensure we had 100% feature coverage for all apps. Since sometimes things slip in (you didn't merge a new feature without a test did you!?), I'd like to ask all app developers to open new bugs and/or reply t

Alarms and Clock

2013-12-11 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I was looking through the clock tests last evening and noticed the alarms test was disabled because support wasn't yet landed. How are we coming on getting alarms supported? And if it's ready, let's talk about how we can test it ;-) Cheers, Nicholas -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quali

Critical Terminal Bug #1257791

2013-12-11 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Do we understand what's causing this bug and able to fix it? It's pretty critical as the app is unusable with it (no enter button means you can't enter any commands :-( ). https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-terminal-app/+bug/1257791 "Open terminal on #47 on mako type ls then press enter Observe

Re: [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] Core Apps: Going for the Green!

2013-12-10 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Look at the green today! Excellent! The MIR bugs I mentioned are fixed, so please if you see a regression rest assured it is an issue worth fixing. http://ci.ubuntu.com/smokeng/trusty/touch/ Nicholas On 12/09/2013 10:25 AM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Just another update on our tests status. The

Re: [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] Core Apps: Going for the Green!

2013-12-09 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Just another update on our tests status. The dashboard has been looking good recently, but we still have an occasional failure. It's believed to be caused by these 2 MIR bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-mir/+bug/1243665 https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-mir/+bug/1234538 If you see your ap

Re: Changes to wiki page Bugs/Importance

2013-12-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 12/06/2013 02:05 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: Why I *changed pages* without asking - Because I guess letting people make changes and discussing only those on which we don't agree makes *further progress*, further than speaking everything before hand. And if there's no consensus letting

Re: Hi there ...

2013-12-03 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 12/02/2013 01:05 PM, Paul White wrote: Just to let you know that I'm lurking in the background testing random ISOs to make sure that they're bootable and will produce a "live session". I'm not sure of how useful my reports will be as I only have a couple of laptops and a netbook available fo

QA Tech Talks

2013-11-26 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The Canonical QA team is having sporadic technical talks to share cool QA technologies, solutions, and things of interest with each other. These are livestreamed via google on-air hangouts and are available for viewing after completion should you not be able to make it. They've done a few alrea

Re: [Ubuntu-touch-coreapps] Core Apps: Going for the Green!

2013-11-25 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On Nov 18, 2013 12:57 PM, "Nicholas Skaggs" mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> wrote: Thanks to everyone who helped with this effort. I wanted to followup and say all the tests in trunk should now be green. There are 3 MP's I'm still watching and wa

Re: Core Apps: Going for the Green!

2013-11-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
ld versions for the moment, but should be updated for tomorrow's run :-) http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/smokeng/trusty/touch/ Nicholas On 11/07/2013 01:14 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: The transition to autopilot 1.4 is done! I'm including Didier's mail below, which contains importa

Re: New to Testing, Which is the best way to start contributing?

2013-11-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
I would also chip in, come say hi when you are trying to test! http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-quality There are folks on IRC with good coverage for most timezones. Say hello and get realtime feedback and help on your testing efforts! Nicholas On 11/18/2013 11:16 AM, Nicholas

Re: New to Testing, Which is the best way to start contributing?

2013-11-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Ryuken, thanks for the feedback. It can feel overwhelming, but please any suggestions you may have as you move through the knowledge transfer process please let us know :-) As far as your questions, I think the best and easiest way to start is to run some testcases. You can choose to do image

Re: Quality vUDS Sessions

2013-11-18 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
.16:00 in Community 1 http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1311/meeting/22070/community-1311-quality-papercuts/ Touch Core Apps testing needs 2013-11-21 16:05..17:00 in Community 1 http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1311/meeting/22062/community-1311-coreapps-testing/ Nicholas On 11/06/2013 01:16 PM, Nicholas Ska

Re: New member

2013-11-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Stefano, welcome! I'd recommend having a read over https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Roles/Tester There is more to do than just image testing and that page should help set you up. If it's missing anything, just fire back a question and we'll answer it and get it documented :-) In short, you can t

Re: Google Hangouts

2013-11-12 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 11/12/2013 06:54 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: Since UDS went online, Kubuntu has used a combination of IRC and mumble voice chats to plan its work. I've participated in a few of the hangouts sessions too. I don't think IRC/mumble is noticeably inferior to the hangout approach and it avoids t

Core Apps: Going for the Green!

2013-11-07 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
The transition to autopilot 1.4 is done! I'm including Didier's mail below, which contains important information for you as well. So, as seen below, the transition to autopilot 1.4 is now done. We can't release that image because of our sdk breaking backward compatbility. In addition, as the CI

Quality vUDS Sessions

2013-11-06 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Just a reminder, here are the currently scheduled vUDS sessions relating to quality. Quality sessions typically will occur on the community track. It was pointed out to me my original agenda for the roundtable was shall we say, "ambitous". So I pulled out almost all of the items into seperate s

vUDS Sessions

2013-11-05 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Just a reminder, here are the currently scheduled vUDS sessions relating to quality. If you have a topic for a session, please propose it and reply to this thread. Be quick however, the timeline is closing to add a session! Quality sessions typically will occur on the community track. http://u

Fwd: Landing plan - Monday 4th November

2013-11-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
.net CC: Thomi Richards , Nicholas Skaggs , Bill Filler , Zoltan Balogh , Kevin Gunn , Francis Ginther , Julien Funk Hey everyone, As you probably saw on the phone mailing list. We were finally available to promote a new trusty image #10 (the last pieces making unity8 not passing wasn

Re: New member from India

2013-11-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Shubham, welcome to the team! Wonderful to have you. We like new people and new faces :-) For all the ways you can help now that you've got an install have a look at this page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Roles/Tester#Activities I trust it will answer a few of your questions. Trusty is st

Re: Introduction

2013-11-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Welcome Monika! I'll just echo what the others have said about starting off by getting a development install of ubuntu going. Once you are setup, have a look at this page to see what all you can do to help: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Roles/Tester After you've spent some time learning to be

Re: Social Media Links on The Wiki Area

2013-11-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
oO, pretty! Thanks Ali! Definitely brightens up the page! Nicholas On 11/03/2013 01:08 PM, Elfy wrote: On 03/11/13 17:16, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Thanks :) You welcome :) If you've got smaller ones, more the size of icons already on the page, they might look more in tune with th

Re: Ubuntu for Tablets Testing

2013-11-04 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Frank, It sounds like you already have installed ubuntu touch? If not, here's the information you need: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install Then have a look at how you can help test the image: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/TouchTesting Use it regularly and provide feedback and bug report

Re: A proposal to combine quality and bugsquad teams

2013-10-30 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Thanks to everyone for the feedback. Given the positive responses I would like to move forward with the change. To help facilitate all the little odds and ends of transitioning, I've created a blueprint for the upcoming UDS: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-1311-quality-

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