Kubuntu Laptop Testing

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:51:35PM +0200, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> On Sunday 02 July 2006 12:36, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 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.

No, even that's not required. As long as "Kubuntu hotkey support" is 
tested, it's not necessary to also test that every laptop has hotkey 
support under Kubuntu. If Kubuntu implements the basic hotkey support 
correctly, and if a specific model's hotkeys work under either Ubuntu or 
Kubuntu, then everything is fine. 

> > 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?

Because that would be a unilateral declaration that people would have to 
work harder. We can revisit that issue if we decide to repeat the laptop 
program.

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

Indeed, it's almost no effort at all. But apt-get install 
kubuntu-desktop doesn't magically perform testing work for you, and 
doing the testing properly does involve a significant amount of effort.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org