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 01/22/2015 04:21 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Damir, Thanks for you quick response !
Yes, I'm aware of the huge diversity of hardware that exist in the market
and I'm aware of the heroic effort needed to make QA on all this devices
too. I'm not sure how to run this tests, I'll dive in the QA wiki to try to
understand the QA workflow. I have to find a way to test a release
candidate without adding any PPA since I use my laptop to working every day
and I want to keep my ubuntu as stable as possible. I guess that I should
run this test booting a live image maybe.
Thanks,
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Gabriel.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Damir B <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Gabriel,
Believe you me, there is definitely hardware testing going on for each and
every release of Ubuntu, include updates to packages related to hardware
components like GPU.
The problem is, as I am sure you are aware, the hardware market is very
open.....Tons and tons of combinations of laptops (makes/models) running
even more varied combinations of GPUs. In your case, it seems an update to
Xorg has slowed down the performance of Ubuntu overall on your laptop
because the update was maybe not optimized for your specific combination of
hardware. How can that be prevented in the future? Well, most of us who do
"hardware related testing" do so with the hardware that we personally own
and use. This means in your case, nobody will the same make/model as you
tested the performance of Xorg, or maybe they did but didn't report an
issue.
To prevent in the future, you could subscribe to an unstable PPA for Xorg
and report issues with your specific hardware to the developers BEFORE they
release it publicly through a stable PPA or in this case, probably an
official Ubuntu repo.
Hope you see how this sort of thing occurs and how you can help to prevent
similar issues in the future,
Damir
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:41:18 -0300
Subject: Hardware related test cases.
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Hello QA team,
Is there any way to help to avoid this kind of bugs popup in every
distribution upgrade ?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1386721
Is there any test cases related to hardware performance, video
performance
specifically . Bugs like this has the potential to make a laptop unusable
after the dist upgrade.
I'd like to help trying to avoid this kind of bugs in future releases,
Any guidance is welcome :-)
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Gabriel.
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