Kubuntu Laptop Testing

[Stephan Hermann]

On Sunday 02 July 2006 12:36, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 08:45:21AM -0400, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > If I was looking for a laptop that would support Kubuntu where
> > would I turn to double check?
>
> The question isn't really meaningful. Model-specific support happens
> in the core distribution - ie, below KDE or Gnome. Either Kubuntu
> supports a specific piece of laptop functionality (such as hotkeys)
> or it doesn't, but that doesn't require it to be tested on every
> machine.

It should be tested as "Desktop Functionality". You actually don't need 
laptop keys or something like this on servers.


>
> > I would hope those that have official laptops would test Kubuntu as
> > well as Ubuntu during the next release schedule.
>
> People are of course free to do so, but we're not going to require it
> - the testers agreed to perform a certain range of testing
> activities, and we can't unilaterally declare that they have to work
> harder.

Well, officially edgy will be the last release of testing for the 
sponsored laptops, why can't Canonical tell us, that this release has 
to be tested with Kubuntu as Desktop as well?

I don't see the problem. apt-get install kubuntu-desktop on an installed 
ubuntu desktop is not so much work.

Regards,

\sh
-- 
St. Hermann
SysAdmin and Linux specialist
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