Hello, On 13 May 2010 09:15, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote: > The task is to test the Ubuntu ISO (CD) images at certain points > through the cycle. This is a surprisingly easy thing to do, and with a > few volunteers and bit of co-ordination it's possible to test all the > various flavours and architectures and report bugs to the QA team. > > What the Italian LoCo have done is co-ordinate the effort to ensure a > spread of testers across Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and other flavours, > and 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. There's no single person who has > to test every single ISO, and some people only test one of them. There > are points in the cycle (Alpha/Beta releases for example) where more > effort is needed, so having multiple people testing the same ISO gives > some redundancy as well as ensuring the images are well tested.
I'd be happy to help with that. > What you'd need is a computer and a relatively decent internet > connection which you could use to download one or more ISO images. Is this testing done with KVM/test drive or actual boots? None of my personal machines support KVM yet, but if actual boots are useful, I could test some 32bit x86 ISOs. -- Hugh Saunders -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
