Re: Testing for the Beta – help needed!

[Mike Mikowski]

Thanks Valorie! We're on it!

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020, 14:13 Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Kubuntu 20.04 Testing Week
>
> The Kubuntu team is delighted to announce an ‘Ubuntu Testing Week’ from
> April 2nd to April 8th with other flavors in the Ubuntu family. April 2nd
> is the beta release of what will become Kubuntu 20.04 and during this week,
> there will be a freeze on changes to features, the user interface and
> documentation. Between April 2nd and final release on April 23rd, the
> Kubuntu team and community will focus on ISO testing, bug reporting, and
> fixing bugs. Please join the community by downloading the daily ISO image
> and trying it out, even beginning today.
>
> QA tracker: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/408/builds
>
> From this main page, click on the ‘Kubuntu Desktop amd64’ link to arrive
> at the testcases page. On the testcases page, you can download the ISO by
> clicking the ‘Link to the download information’ and report test results to
> the various test cases for Kubuntu. If you see other flavors needing
> testing on the main page, please test for them as well.
>
> Chat live on IRC (#ubuntu-quality) or telegram (UbuntuTesters:
> https://t.me/UbuntuTesters) if you like, during this time of pandemic
> social distancing.
>
> If you have no spare computer to use for testing, no problem! You can test
> without changing your system by running it in a VM (Virtual Machine) with
> software like Virtualbox, or running it in the live session from a USB or
> DVD, so you can also test if your hardware works correctly. We encourage
> those that are willing, to install it either in a VM or on physical
> hardware–requires at least 6GB of harddisk space–and use it continuously
> for a few days, as more bugs can be exposed and reported this way.
>
> The easy way to report a bug is to open up Konsole by pressing alt+space
> and typing konsole or Menu > Konsole and then typing `*ubuntu-bug
> packagename*`, where packagename is the program or application where you
> experience the bug.
>
> If you prefer working in the terminal, open the virtual console (terminal)
> by pressing control + alt + F2, 3, 4 etc. and typing `ubuntu-bug
> packagename`, where packagename is the program or application where you
> experience the bug. Control + Alt + F1 to return to your desktop. If a
> crash has landed you in the terminal, login with your usual user name and
> password, and report the bug as above.
>
> Here is a nice youtube video showing the entire process, including one way
> to figure out what packagename is appropriate in GNOME:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjTyzyY9RHw
>
> Using ‘ubuntu-bug’ will automatically upload error logs and/or other files
> to Launchpad that developers need to fix the bug. By the way, the
> installer’s packagename is ubiquity. Experience tells us that is the most
> useful packagename to know for ISO testing when things go wrong with the
> installation. The live session software package is casper, should you
> encounter bugs affecting the live session itself, not programs. Other
> programs with bugs should be filed against their packages, for instance
> firefox, dolphin, vlc, etc. Only the bug *number* is needed when reporting
> the results of a test on the QA tracker.
>
> Please test programs / applications that you regularly use, so you can
> identify bugs and regressions that should be reported. New ISO files are
> built every day; always test with the most up-to-date ISO. It is easier and
> faster to update an existing daily ISO with the command below (first
> right-click on the ISO’s folder in Dolphin and select ‘Open in Terminal’)
> or just open konsole or yakuake and `cd path-to-ISO-folder`. Zsync
> downloads only changes, so it’s very quick.
>
> $ *zsync
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/focal-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync
> <http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/focal-desktop-amd64.iso.zsync>*
>
> See you on the QA tracker!
>
> Valorie
>
>
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