Fwd: Call For Testing: Hardy Firefox users (or willing to install Hardy in a VM)

[Micah Gersten]

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For those not on the ubuntu-devel list.
Any assistance by anyone with spare time for testing would be a great help.
Thanks,
Micah

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Subject: Call For Testing: Hardy Firefox users (or willing to install
Hardy	in a VM)
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:42:25 +0200
From: Ara Pulido <ara at ubuntu.com>
To: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com

We need Hardy users to test our latest Firefox Upgrade!

*Background:*
Firefox 3.0 and xulrunner 1.9 are now unsupported by Mozilla. Rather
than backporting security fixes to these now, we are moving to a support
model where we will be introducing major new upstream versions in stable
releases. The reason for this is the support periods from Mozilla are
gradually becoming shorter, and it will be more and more difficult for
us to maintain our current support model in the future (see [1] for
information).

We are going to release Firefox 3.6.4 as a minor update to the 3.6
series in Lucid. This will also be rolled out to Hardy, Jaunty and
Karmic (along with xulrunner 1.9.2.4). The update for Lucid is quite
trivial, but the update in Hardy, Jaunty and Karmic is not quite as simple.

Before releasing these updates to the public, we need testing in
Firefox, the extensions in the archive and distributions upgrades after
those updates. We have published all these packages in a PPA [2] and we
will track test results before moving anything to the archive.

We need people running *Hardy* (Jaunty and Karmic will see a similar
call for testing in the following days) in bare metal or a virtual
machine. If you are willing to help, you can follow the instructions below:

 1. Add the Mozilla Security PPA to your software sources

 You need to manually edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and add the
following lines:

 deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa/ubuntu hardy main
 deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa/ubuntu
hardy main

 After saving the file, you have to run:

 sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7EBC211F
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

 2. You have to have an account in our tracking system. Go to
http://mozilla.qa.ubuntu.com and click on "Log In" and "Create New Account"

 3. To know what to test and how to report back, please, read our
instructions in our testing wiki:

   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Firefox3.6.4Upgrade

Thanks!
Ara.


[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Lucid/FirefoxNewSupportModel
[2] https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-security/+archive/ppa
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