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Hi. My name is Mitch. I have recently signed up to the Ubuntu Testing
Team & this mailing list, with the goal of trying to contribute
back to Ubuntu. I first started using Ubuntu a couple of years ago
(7.04 Feisty release, I think) & I switched to being a full time
Ubuntu user when 7.10 came out. At that time I (and a couple of my work
colleagues) were lucky enough to be able to convince the management
team at my work place to switch the whole company network (currently
200 or so desktops & laptops) from Windows 2000 (*shudder*) to
Ubuntu. We are still trying to convince the management team that Ubuntu
Server should replace the Fedora based servers that are currently
operating in-house. From that time on we have been creating &
continually improving upon an internal company SOE for use within our
workplace. I am also currently working on an Ubuntu based SOE PXE
server to aid in our rapid deployment of Ubuntu within our company. At my workplace (NCSS - http://ncss.com.au/) we are focussed almost entirely on HP/Compaq equipment as we are currently Australia's largest HP/Compaq Authorised Service Centre. As such, my main focus has been on resolving issues related to HP/Compaq Desktop & Laptop computers running Ubuntu. I have been focussing on sound related issues for HP laptops, but these seem to be almost entirely resolved now in karmic (with the installation of an alsa backports package). I have also been contributing to the Translations team, but I have found that there is not much work to be done in en_AU translations. In one of the many different technical roles I have had at my current employer over the years, I was Quality Assurance Officer. As such I was motivated to explore QA testing within Ubuntu. I am currently reading through the wiki pages for the Testing & QA teams to find out where I can best help. Hopefully I will be able to give back to the community as it has helped me to see that computing can be fun, interesting & exciting again! As I was reading through the mailing list archives, I read that it was suggested to another new team member to "user test" the wiki itself. I noticed a slight spelling mistake in the URL for for the ubuntu-testing mailing list & have rectified that so it is no longer bringing up a 404 Error. But upon further reading of this mailing list archive I believe it may be better to change this mailing list URL to point to this ubuntu-qa mailing list instead of the seemingly inactive "ubuntu-testing" mailing list. The page on the wiki I am referring to is (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing). I was going to change this, but upon reading the "TODO" list (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/TODO) I noticed that there is possibly another mailing list (ubuntu-test...@l.u.c) so I was unsure what mailing list URL should be displayed on the Testing wiki page. Can someone please let me know what mailing list URL should be used so that I can change it? I have just noticed that this is starting to become somewhat long-winded & that was not my intention so I will stop writing this & get back to reading more of the Testing wiki & documentation :) I look forward to being able to help with testing within Ubuntu & to finally be able to give something back to this awesome community. Kind Regards, Mitch Towner (A.K.A kermiac on ubuntuforums.org & freenode irc) |
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