Re: Handing over ubuntu-qa to the Qatar loco team

The process should be complete. If your seeing this message, it means you made it and are migrated successfully :-) If someone can send back a message to confirm this to the list, that would be wonderful :-) Nicholas On 10/30/2012 12:16 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: The process for this has

UDS:R -- the story so far

I believe this got lost in the transition, so I'll post it again. You may have already had a chance to read it, but :-) What does everyone think about the changes? Please feel free to ask questions or post feedback in this thread on what's going on in regards to quality here in Copenhagen

Converting to ubuntu-quality

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/?action=fullsearch&titlesearch=0&value=listinfo%2Fubuntu-qa&context=180 Look what I found! I changed the main page, but the wiki has more occurrences. Please, feel free to have a look and edit the active pages to convert them to ubuntu-quality. In addition, I've starte

Re: UDS:R -- the story so far

Chris, I would love to see what you have. There is some existing libreoffice test cases as well -- we need to do some work on exposing all the application testcases we have in an easier to see manner. However, until then, have a look here: http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/testcases/1423

Work for this cycle

A fair warning, this is going to be long, but it's important to digest everything in here :-) -- I trust everyone has enjoyed a little downtime, and for those of you who were at UDS or participated remotely, I trust you've been able to digest everything now :-) So, it's time for us to start wor

Weekly Meeting Format and day/time poll

I decided to split this off into it's own thread to make following the conversation easier :-) -- I would like to discuss and hear options for how we meet as a community in "realtime". Currently we're using IRC for this, but I know the timing and format doesn't work out well for many of you. Su

Re: Handing over ubuntu-qa to the Qatar loco team

Mattia and David. Good eyes! Thank you for noticing. Thanks to some of the other folks on the list, the footer is fixed, but the lists.ubuntu.com page may take a bit as we'll have to get another team to update it. They've been notified so hopefully things should straighten out soon enough. Than

Re: Weekly Meeting Format and day/time poll

ople could 'run' a training session on how to do something, which people could watch live, and it will be available later for others who are unable to 'attend' the training live. cJ On 11/08/2012 12:03 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: I would like to discuss and hear options for

Re: Work for this cycle

On 11/08/2012 01:16 PM, Brendan Donegan wrote: On 08/11/12 17:02, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: A fair warning, this is going to be long, but it's important to digest everything in here :-) -- I trust everyone has enjoyed a little downtime, and for those of you who were at UDS or partici

Quality Rename

I believe the quality rename has been complete. Sadly, the lp team url page has to stay as ubuntu-testing (afaik), but the IRC channel has been changed over and the lp team details are changed as well. https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-testing We now all live on #ubuntu-quality. As always, please

ISOTracker Updates

Just a quick update -- the isotracker is getting some further updates, and if your an admin with work on the staging area, I've backed it up. The staging area is being updated with a rollout to production *soon*. The new feature will allow everyone to see the testsuites used and view the testca

Re: Invitation to host Quality training events in Ubuntu Classroom

I would add that anyone who might be a bit nervous about "hosting" a session is welcome to pair up and help co-host a session. This has worked well in the past and reduces the burden on one person -- not to mention it makes the sessions more exciting and lively. We have some session veterans ou

Re: Weekly Meeting Format and day/time poll

t to meet at a rational time for everyone. Please do consider hanging out on #ubuntu-quality when you can instead and chatting as needed there. Nicholas On 11/08/2012 01:44 PM, Carla Sella wrote: On 11/08/2012 06:03 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: I decided to split this off into it's own thre

Re: ISOTracker Updates

x27;s the testcases for our application tests from last cycle: http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/series/30/testsuites Thoughts, feedback? Hopefully this helps to shed a light on what testcases exist, and what they look like. Nicholas On 11/19/2012 03:26 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Just a

Raring Cadence Week 1

Ok, so we're a bit delayed in starting this because, well, there was a Holiday in North America called Thanksgiving. Forgive me. :-p So, this week (through Saturday) is our first cadence week. What that means is we will be focusing testing specific packages (or isos) during the week. What you

Re: Raring Cadence Week 1

ea of running these autopilot testcases -- as after all, this cycle we're going to make more :-) On 11/25/2012 11:56 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Ok, so we're a bit delayed in starting this because, well, there was a Holiday in North America called Thanksgiving. Forgive me. :-p So,

Re: Raring Cadence Week 1

es, should I delete the ppa version? and use the raring version instead? Thanks in advance, have a nice cadence week. On 11/26/2012 03:30 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Just an update to talk about the unity autopilot tests I included as part of our testing this week based on feedback from the in

Autopilot Series

For those who might not have seen it on Ubuntu planet, I've now completed a series of 3 posts on autopilot (though there will be more in the future :-) ). If you've had a chance to run the autopilot testsuite this week, you've had your first taste at what autopilot is and can do. I would encour

Re: General Autopilot stuff

On 11/29/2012 10:08 PM, Javier P.L. wrote: On 11/29/2012 08:17 PM, Jayson Rowe wrote: Hi Everyone, I'd love to help out but I do have limited time in the evenings, and more on the weekends. I'd seen Nicholas' posts on Autopilot, and as a Selenium WebDriver tester by day, it looked like an intere

Re: Autopilot xubuntu

Jackson, not yet, but they can certainly be written. And since applications can be run under any Desktop Enviroment, all the flavors can benefit from having a testsuite for say abiword, gnumeric, pidgin, etc. I'd encourage you to give it a try and write a simple testcase for your favorite appli

Re: Another Autopilot question...

Jayson, at the moment, no autopilot itself doesn't have anything like that. However, I'm guessing you could do something similar via UTAH or something else. Regardless, we don't have any remote infrastructure that is open to everyone, so no need for the remote aspect of what your talking about.

Re: Classroom sessions

@Liz, what would you recommend we do in order to prepare people for the sessions? In this case, we would like people to pre-download an iso (for a specific session) so they will have it available, without worrying about having a super fast connection to grab it during the session -- is this som

Re: Classroom sessions

Gema, I'd let you have the slot -- phil had that session down as tentative. I would also like to see a good session on developing a mindset for finding and documenting bugs. typing 'ubuntu-bug' s the easy part :-) Nicholas On 12/05/2012 12:25 PM, Gema Gomez wrote: On 05/12/12 14:38, Phill Wh

Raring Alpha 1 (Flavors) Testing Report

Hi all, The testing report for Raring Alpha 1 which was conducted for Kubuntu and Edubuntu has been published to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/ReleaseReports/RaringAlpha1TestReport Thanks you to kitterman, jonathan, jr, doak-jackson, rohangarg, smartboyhw, ronnoc, alessiogrossosgarrillo, g

Raring Cadence Week 2

Week 2 is already upon us. I know some of you are busy helping write and revise our testcases, or migrate them to autopilot tests, which is all very exciting stuff ;-) During this week which lasts until December 15th, we have a couple desktop applications to look at; network manager and shotwel

Hardware Testcases Migrated

Just wanted to let everyone know about the laptop testing tracker testcases are also now managed by the tracker internally, and have been updated to the new format. You can see everything here: http://laptop.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/series/35/testsuites Thanks to SergioMeneses for the great wor

Manual ISO Testcases Changes

Thanks to CarlaSella, we've gotten some much needed improvements to our manual iso testcases. We now cover some additional installation scenarios, so some new testcases have been added: Install (manual partitioning re-using home partition) http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/testcases/1470/info

13 Dec 20120 - Automated Testing Hacking Day

From the wiki, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/AutomatedTesting/Hackfest: On *Thursday, 13th December 2012* we are going to have an Automated Testing hack-fest where members of the Quality Assurance Team will demo and d

Jam today with us!

We have two jams going on as we speak. One is the previously mentioned automated testing hackathon. But if your not into that sort of thing, perhaps I can entice you to help clean up our official ubuntu.com/community page. See my post for full details, but our pad is here. http://pad.ubuntu.c

Raring Cadence Week 2 Report

We had 11 people submit 58 tests, with a total of 4 bugs submitted. We also had some excellent discussion on IRC surrouding bugs using ubiquity in KVM, as well as the differences when installing via and the re-emergence of some old bugs needing to be squashed. Thanks to all the iso testers! d

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Manual Partitioning

LOL PHIL! Yes, i run ubuntu on a 5 gb disk.. you can do it, but man, it's almost impossible to do full upgrades. You have to install some packages, then apt-get clean, install again :-p Nicholas On 12/19/2012 09:04 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi, time to 'fess up :) When dividing 100 GB by 1

Automated Hackfest Days: 24 Jan 2013, 22 Feb 2013

Just a quick heads up -- set your calendars now for the next installments of the hackfests: 24 Jan 2013 and 22 Feb 2013 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/AutomatedTesting/Hackfest The format will be the same as last time -- come hang out anytime on #ubuntu-quality, ask questions, get help, and w

Exploring Ask ubuntu for quality!

I'd like to propose all of us as a community embrace Askubuntu as an outlet for getting help and asking common questions about quality and testing. The past couple cycles we've spent ensuring our wiki area became more and more of a resource for understanding and providing help getting started.

Re: Exploring Ask ubuntu for quality!

I should mention, if we have any askubuntu gurus in the community, please speak up and help guide all of us in this endeavor (me included!). Nicholas On 12/19/2012 05:45 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: I'd like to propose all of us as a community embrace Askubuntu as an outlet for getting hel

Re: Exploring Ask ubuntu for quality!

Istimsak, you missed an 's' ;-) Just thought I'd forward it back to the list ;-) Original Message Subject:Re: Exploring Ask ubuntu for quality! Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:10:16 -0500 From: istimsak abdulbasir To: Nicholas Skaggs , ubuntu-qual...@

AutoPilot Testcases project launched

As part of the effort to expand our automated testing and increase our autopilot testcases, I've started a project to host these testcases. This should make it easy to contribute new testcases as well as to see what's available. I know several of you have been working independently on various t

Re: AutoPilot Testcases project launched

wrote: Hello Nicholas, I can see on this page: https://code.launchpad.net/~nskaggs/ubuntu-autopilot-tests/trunk "bzr branch lp:ubuntu-autopilot-tests" "You cannot upload to this branch. Only Nicholas Skaggs <https://launchpad.net/%7Enskaggs> can upload to this branch.&quo

Re: candence week 3

Happy New Year everyone! I'll be around again soon.. For now, Updated the wiki pages with info on testing this week. Good luck! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Cadence/Raring https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Cadence/Raring/Week3 Nicholas On 12/31/2012 04:47 AM, Carla Sella wrote: Wow, didn't even

Re: Proposal to merge #ubuntu-quality and #ubuntu-bugs

Thanks for the lovely chat on irc Omer. I wish you the best on your efforts to help the bug squad. As we spoke about, while our end goals are similar (as with all the ubuntu teams), our focus is different and should remain separate to allow us to work effectively. Cheers, Nicholas On 01/03/2

Re: Ubuntu Testing

Hey David, wonderful to hear you want to get involved! There's many different opportunities available to help. If you can program (even a little!) and have interest, I'd encourage you to check out writing autopilot / autopkg tests. http://askubuntu.com/a/236157/32111 If not, you can help in h

Re: Ubuntu Quality Assurance (testing and bug triage)

Hello to you Chris! Let me just echo what I said to David here -- do let us know what you choose and we can help you get started :-) - There's many different opportunities available to help. If you can program (even a little!) and have interest, I'd encourage you to check out writing au

Re: Interested in ubuntu phone testing

Jose is correct, there are currently no images available, and as such, nothing to test YET :-) That said the images will be intended for developer usage, and of course will require some phone hardware. Nicholas On 01/09/2013 03:27 AM, José Antonio Rey wrote: As far as I know, none of those de

Re: Interested in ubuntu phone testing

the near future? It can't surely be just for nexuses. *?? ??:* Nicholas Skaggs *:* Wed Jan 09 12:23:01 PST 2013 *?? ??:* "José Antonio Rey" *??:* ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com, John hoyos *??

This week in QA

Here's what's happening in QA this week :-) We have our week 4 cadence testing under way. The new stuff on the table is pulseaudio testing from the audio dev ppa. There's a new version to land and a set of smoke tests. In addition, I'm busy packaging up some of our first autopilot testcase con

Re: Join

Welcome Jordan! There's many different opportunities available to help. If you can program (even a little!) and have interest, I'd encourage you to check out writing autopilot / autopkg tests. http://askubuntu.com/a/236157/32111 If not, you can help in hardware, iso, or package testing. Ever

Re: This week in QA

Launchpad says you've got karma buddy :-) And lp never lies! Nicholas On 01/14/2013 04:05 PM, Jackson Doak wrote: i helped with the auto testcases? all i've done is say xubuntu and lubuntu need them too. On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Nicholas Skaggs mailto:nicholas.ska...@can

Re: 12.10 install problem

Gabor, sorry to hear of your troubles, but glad you worked it out. I would encourage you to try and reproduce the issue and then use ubuntu-bug to file a bug against update-manager if indeed you find an issue. If you want to avoid installing, try booting from a li

Re: Feature summary for daily .iso builds?

Adrian, good idea! Jackson had something similar -- have a look and add your comments to the bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-qa-website/+bug/1096192 Nicholas On 01/16/2013 06:04 PM, Jackson Doak wrote: i made a bug on something similar. talk to nicholas or i in irc and i will te

Re: This week in QA

ed and now I can join in the fun!! > > On 2013-1-15 上午5:12, "Jackson Doak" <mailto:doak.jack...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > i thought my launchpad karma was all from bugs. just remembered i > merged one of carla's tests if thats all > > >

Re: Introduction Email

Welcome Connor! There's many different opportunities available to help. If you like the idea of automating tests, and have the skills to help write them, check this out: http://askubuntu.com/a/236157/32111 If programming isn't up your alley, we maintain a repository of manual testcases as w

Re: Introduction Email

.k.pa...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi Nicholas, Please let me know how I can participate in classroom session. Thanks, Dipan On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:14 AM, Nicholas Skaggs mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> wrote: Welcome Connor! There&

Re: Introduction Email

session, if yes please let me know the location? Thanks, Dipan On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Nicholas Skaggs mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> wrote: Dipan, yes you can participate. Check out the days and times here. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities/Cla

Re: Introduction Email

e know the location? Thanks, Dipan On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Nicholas Skaggs mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> wrote: Dipan, yes you can participate. Check out the days and times here. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities/Classroom

UDW Week and Automated Testing Hackfest #2

As you may or may not know, Ubuntu Developer Week is going on this week. Check this out for the full schedule. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek The primary target is developers, but even if development isn't your thing, you might want to attend a session or two. Have a look and deci

Fwd: Automated Testing Hackfest - Friday 1st February

As announced earlier --- Come hang out! We'll be doing autopkg and autopilot testcase writing and helping folks contribute. Original Message Subject:Automated Testing Hackfest - Friday 1st February Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:05:34 +0100 From: Daniel Holbach To:

February QA Classroom Sessions

I'm happy to announce the second set of classroom sessions given by phillw, Gema, smartboyhw, Noskcaj, letozaf, SergioMeneses, and primes2h ;-) Here's the list; Feb 6th 1600 UTC phillw Introduction to bug reporting Feb 6th 1700 UTC Gema Following a bug report Feb 7th 2000 - 2100 UTC letozaf,

Cadence Week 5

So, just a reminder that we have a cadence week this week.. The focus this week is on the autopilot tests that we didn't get to run last cadence (due to build errors). Please have a look on the package tracker and give them a go: http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/252/builds Y

Fwd: 12.04.2 status

Here's information from the release folks about what's going on for 12.04.2. You can help now by testing the dailies. Once the milestone is up, we'll try and help make sure the images all get verified properly and put out a proper call at that time. Thanks everyone! BTW, if your curious, there

Re-thinking Manual Testing

So, in an effort to bring more focus and exposure to manual testing, I've been a bit busy setting up a cleaner way for everyone to contribute testcases. In that vein, I'd like to announce that the manual tests on the tracker(s) are now all on launchpad. There is a launchpad project and you can

Re: New joiner introduction

Oleksander, welcome aboard! Since you spoke about automated testing, here's some things that might be of interest to you right now: Tomorrow, we're hosting a hackfest where you can learn about autopilot (an automated testing framework we use) and help contribute testcases. Details are here: h

Re: Updating daily builds on a daily basis.

John, I update on occasion - no obsession about updating everyday or anything like that. When I do update, the important thing is to make sure the upgrade will go cleanly. Don't update if it's going to remove important packages, or do something undesirable. This is quite a rare occurrence (I ha

Re: Updating daily builds on a daily basis.

Fabio, I think you win for the least keystrokes needed! :-) On 01/31/2013 03:02 PM, Fabio Marconi wrote: On 31/01/2013 18:57, John Kim wrote: Hello ubuntu-qa, I'm John Kim. Yesterday, I installed Ubuntu 13.04 Raring daily build from the cdimage.ubuntu.com site on my laptop, and I'm glad to sa

Re: possible apport bug

Brian is right here -- it just means Jackson is running the same release he originally installed -- he's never upgraded it to a newer version. For instance, my box has been upgraded each since precise I think (I'm on raring now), but if I were to re-install using a raring cd right now, I would

PSA: Autopilot Libraries

Due to a packaging change or conflict, it appears some folks are having trouble running the ap tests (me too!). This fixed it up for myself and Carla, give it a whirl if you find similar issues occurring. sudo apt-get remove libautopilot-gtk-dev libautopilot-gtk0 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt

Re: Re-thinking Manual Testing

new comer understanding it. You are expecting some one to know how to branch something from launchpad? Well, I certainly do not and consider myself a reasonably competent ubuntu user. Regards, Phill. 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities/Classroom/Section3 On 30 January 20

Re: Reporting test results

Phil, I love the self-promotion, but give'm dates man, don't make them click the link! Phil is giving a session on 2013-02-06 at 1600 UTC entitled "An introduction to bug reporting". Gema will be following at 1700 UTC the same day with a session on "Following a bug report". The two sessions sh

Re: Re-thinking Manual Testing

Greetings On 30/01/13 at 06:10pm, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: So, in an effort to bring more focus and exposure to manual testing, I've been a bit busy setting up a cleaner way for everyone to contribute testcases. In that vein, I'd like to announce that the manual tests on the tracker(s) are

Re: Re-thinking Manual Testing

of instructions to 'jump through a further hoop'? It still 'needs selling to me'. I'm one of the olde worlde fashioned people, I'm sure I'm not the only one :) Regards, Phill. On 4 February 2013 16:50, Nicholas Skaggs mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.co

Re: Reporting test results

If you need help understanding how to report iso results, have a look at this tutorial: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Walkthrough Nicholas On 02/04/2013 03:40 PM, Rajeev Bhatta wrote: Thanks Jackson.. appreciate it!! / //Rajeev Bhatta | /Email: rajeev.bha...@gmail.com

Spreading the joy of quality!

Hello everyone. I wanted to ask you to help me spread the joy and fun of testing ubuntu. To help with that, I'm happy to blow the lid off the changes I've made to the qa subdomain on ubuntu. Let me present the best way to share with someone new to QA (I hope! Your feedback is most welcome!) wha

Re: "Getting Started with Autopilot" - autopilot run helloworld runs 0 tests.

John, that's correct. :-) You can run them all, or be specific as to what to run -- no wildcards. Nicholas On 02/06/2013 10:54 AM, John Kim wrote: I tried again this morning, and I noticed that for autopilot run, I have to write the entire function's name. The wildcard * doesn't work. John

Session Logs for our classroom sessions

I wanted to share some session logs for anyone who hasn't been able to make our classroom sessions. I updated the page with the logs, but I'll include them inline here as well: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities/Classroom#preview In particular, here are the logs for each of the session

Cadence Week 6 -- Now with more of yours truly!

The next cadence week is upon, starting Saturday Feb 9th. If the term seems new or unfamiliar to you, I'd encourage you to read this link for a background on what we're doing: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Cadence. In short, as a community we're testing different things every 2 weeks in ubunt

Tutorials for contributing testcases (including lp!)

I wanted to mention that I've written the requested docs on getting started with contributing testcases to the automated and manual testing projects on launchpad. It includes a tutorial on setting up launchpad as well! Check out the following page for the new stuff: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QA

Reminder: Ubuntu 12.04.2 Release testing this week!

Just a reminder that if your willing and able to help do image testing for ubuntu 12.04.2, please do so. Especially needed is folks to test on real hardware and to test difficult setups. There is a new X stack and kernel all landing in precise as part of this update, so be on the lookout for br

Re: Cadence Week 6 -- Now with more of yours truly!

Looking for to the cadence test week. On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Nicholas Skaggs mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> wrote: The next cadence week is upon, starting Saturday Feb 9th. If the term seems new or unfamiliar to you, I'd encourage you to read this

Re: Introduction

Hello Sean -- as we've already spoke about, welcome! You've come during a busy week. Glad to see you jumping in an helping out. Feel free to ping the list or #ubuntu-quality if you need help with something. Glad to have you you! Thanks for helping make ubuntu better. Nicholas On 02/11/2013 02

Re: Hello everyone

Mawaheb, wonderful to hear from you :-) Glad your wanting to help be a part of ubuntu. There are many different ways to get involved in QA. You've come during a busy week, so your timing is great :-) This week is a cadence week. Take a look at the wiki page below to give you a better idea on w

Re: Fwd: Pre-release of Ubuntu 12.04.2 available for Laptop Testing!

The URL to take you straight into the tests is here: http://laptop.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/257/builds I somehow missed it in the email below, maybe you did too :-) Nicholas On 02/12/2013 03:35 AM, Sergio Zanchetta wrote: Sorry, I sent it to the wrong QA ML address. Here it is! --

Re: Hello Everyone.

Raghav, wonderful to meet you! Glad your wanting to help be a part of ubuntu. You've come during a busy week, lots of ways to jump in and get involved. This week is a cadence week. Take a look at the wiki page below to give you a better idea on what that me

Reminder: ISO Testing classroom Session tomorrow 1300 UTC

Smartboyhw is giving a session tomorrow on iso testing, "Your first iso test". He'll be sharing his experience with iso testing and instructing you on how to get started with iso testing! Others will also be around helping you get started testing -- so plan to attend if possible. Feb 13th at 1

Re: New joiner introduction

est_suite_from_name package = __import__(top_level_pkg) ImportError: No module named helloworld Folder helloworld is there and I am executing these commands from the autopilot-walkthrough folder Thanks in advance Oleksandr 2013/1/31 Nicholas Skaggs <mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>

Re: New joiner introduction

/13 Nicholas Skaggs <mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> Hello! Try typing autopilot list helloworld -- what does it say? Then copy one of the lines of the test to run. There might be a small mispelling or similar preventing ap from finding the test. Nicholas On 0

Classroom Sessions Complete!

The classroom sessions held over the last 2 months are now all complete (apart from the on on virtualbox which will happen later; perhaps next cycle). You can find logs for all of the sessions at the link below. Click on the event you wish to view, and you'll get the log :-) https://wiki.ubunt

Youtube Tutorials

As promised, I've completed the first round of video versions of the new tutorials on the wiki for contributing to the manual tests project, setting up launchpad, and doing cadence testing. In the videos I am able to expand on the written tutorials, sometimes in a big way, as well as letting yo

Re: Cadence Week 6 -- Now with more of yours truly!

nce I prefer KDE and XFCE to UNITY, I will focus most of my efforts on those image spins. On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Istimsak Abdulbasir mailto:saqman2...@gmail.com>> wrote: Thanks for the video On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Nicholas Skaggs mailto:nicholas.sk

Re: Howdy

Wonderful to hear from you Tony! Since you've been lurking, I'll spare you posting links to everything :-) Instead, I'll encourage you to dive into something. Which activities interested you? You interested in hardware or software testing? Writing testcases, or even writing automated tests? Let

Global Jam Planning

We've invited folks to host there own testing events as part of there global jam sessions. To go along with that there is a page and links out to our resources to help them get started. Are you planning to jam yourself? Consider hosting a testing event! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Jams/Testing I'

Re: Manual testcases check / indentation script

This is wonderful! Thank you Javier! Your right in that my initial quick conversion was a bit dirty, and of course, we're all human so we make mistakes. Would you care to update the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/ContributingTestcases/ManualStyleGuide page with this information? It's nice to

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Desktop, Alternate and flavours....

Whiteside //* wrote: From: Phill Whiteside Subject: [Lubuntu-qa] Desktop, Alternate and flavours To: lubuntu...@lists.launchpad.net <mailto:lubuntu...@lists.launchpad.net>, "Nicholas Skaggs" mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>>

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Desktop, Alternate and flavours....

flavours To: lubuntu...@lists.launchpad.net <mailto:lubuntu...@lists.launchpad.net>, "Nicholas Skaggs" mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> Cc: "Lubuntu Comms" mailto:lubuntu-co...@lists.launchpad.net>>, ubuntu-qua

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Desktop, Alternate and flavours....

esktop, Alternate and flavours To: "Nicholas Skaggs" Cc: "Lance" , "lubuntu...@lists.launchpad.net" , "Phill Whiteside" , "Lubuntu Comms" , "ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com" , "lubuntu-desktop"

Cadence Week 7 / Ubuntu Global Jam

The next cadence week is upon, starting Saturday Feb 23rd. If the term seems new or unfamiliar to you, I'd encourage you to read this link for a background on what we're doing: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Cadence. In short, as a community we're testing different things every 2 weeks in ubun

Fwd: [Bug 1098080] Re: Testdrive gets stuck on "configuring Virtual Machine" if Virtualbox 4.2 is installed

Not sure if anyone else shared this, but it's definitely news! In short, you can use testdrive with virtualbox 4.2 again on raring :-) I'd like to thank noskcaj, phillw, and of course Ben and Andres and everyone else invovled on this. Nicholas Original Message Subject: [B

Re: Hello!

Hello Tanner. Thanks for sharing your motivation and passions with us. We're glad to have you. Let us know what we can do to help you. Where does your interest in QA lie? If I may ask, what brought you to looking at quality? Here's a few links to get you started on learning more about the team

Re: Cadence Week 7 / Ubuntu Global Jam

, here is the normal link: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Cadence/Raring/Week7UbuntuGlobalJam I hope that you have a nice Jam :D Sergio Meneses Linux User: #478743 Ubuntu User: #24056 On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Nicholas Skaggs mailto:nicholas.ska...@canonical.com>> wrote:

UDS and us

So, while I was gone there were some announcements -- just in case you missed them: Virtual UDS: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/02/26/ubuntu-developer-summits-now-online-and-every-three-months/ Rolling Release?: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-February/036537.html So, need

Re: New list member

Tuxest, thank you so much for sharing your story and welcome. I think you'll fit in great here :-) ISTQB tests are great things -- I wish you luck on your learning! Here's a couple links if you haven't already seen them to get you started on what's out there. Please, do ask questions, and let

Re: The New Guy

, there is this guy called Nicholas Skaggs... you should pay attention to his updates ;) If you stop by in the #ubuntu-quality channel in freenode (IRC) you can say hello in real time to the team and start to get to know people. Welcome to the team! Thanks, Gema -- Ubuntu-quality m

Re: Hello

Alex, wonderful to hear from you! This is a great time to get involved as I already mentioned UDS is going on, so please do try and attend. Old hardware is great (we like folks with all types of hardware :-) ), and limited time isn't an issue. You can slot time in on your schedule to help. I'll

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