Thanks for this - its a good idea to spell out what you want tested so that someone like me with limited experience can contribute.
I have logged on and clicked that my version installs manually without problems. I am also running the a3 netbook edition in another partition and there was a minor manual install problem with that and a lot of bugs in the unity desktop but there is nowhere on the tracker to report this as they only want entire disk or oem install reports so I guess I'll just wait until I see something I can report on with that version, I guess the developers know about the problems already. cimh eeepc901: Lubuntu 10.4, ubuntu 10.10 & netbook edition 10.10 On 6 August 2010 14:57, Ara Pulido <a...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hello all! > > Today, one day after reaching the third Maverick milestone, Alpha 3, I > am happy to announce the birth of a new testing project and team in > Ubuntu: the Desktop Testing Team. > > Every time we release a new Ubuntu milestone, testers are encouraged to > install the new milestone and play around with it, filing bugs as they > go. We want to go a bit further and use a more methodological approach > for those people that love testing and want to help improving Ubuntu > that way. > > *How will it work* > > For every milestone of the development release of Ubuntu, we will be > providing a series of testcases for you to run in that milestone. As > soon as the milestone is officially released, you will be able to > complete the tests in the following two weeks (although we encourage you > to run them as soon as possible, to allow enough time for developers to > fix the bugs). > > One of the good things about this program is that you, as testers, will > be able to know every time what to test, you will be able to check the > new features before anybody else, and you will gain experience on the > Ubuntu development process. Also, there will be a mailing list to share > your experiences, bugs and to have direct feedback from the developers. > > We will we using a test tracker to track your results and positive > feedback (a test passed correctly) will be also really helpful. Right > now, if things are working correctly, the developers need to guess it > from the lack of test reports. > > *When will it start* > > Just now! Although we don’t have a lot of testcases yet, we wanted to > start the program just after the release of Maverick Alpha 3. The first > weeks of the program are going to be busy and fun. Apart from testing > and updating results, we are going to be introducing ourselves in the > mailing list, commenting what testcases need updates and what > applications we need to add when we reach Maverick Beta. > > *How can I participate* > > Start by joining the Launchpad team and subscribe to the mailing list > [1]. Introduce yourself in the mailing list, tell us about you and what > applications are you mostly interested in. Create an account in the > tracker [2] (if you already have an account at iso.qa.ubuntu.com it will > work as well). Blog about it, tell your friends, tweet it. And, of > course, start testing Maverick Alpha 3. We are going to make Ubuntu > better. And GNOME. And many other applications that are part of Ubuntu. > > You can find the full documentation on how to test on the Desktop > Testing wiki page. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/DesktopTestingProgram > > Thanks! > Ara > > [1] https://launchpad.net/~desktop-testing-team > [2] http://desktop.qa.ubuntu.com > > -- > Ubuntu-qa mailing list > Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa > -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
