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

[Ara Pulido]

On 06/01/2010 08:33 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:05:51AM -0500, Micah Gersten wrote:
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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
>>
>> - -------- Original Message --------
>> 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.
>  
> 
> I am using Hardy on one of the partitions and have already installed
> 3.6.3 from the ~mozillateam/firefox-stable ppa. How do I proceed with
> testing? Should I replace the ppa and reinstall from there? What about
> the extensions and themes that I've installed?
> 
> Similarly I've Jaunty on another partition, where I have both the latest
> version from the backports repo as well as from ubuntuzilla repo on
> sourceforge. How do I go about here?

We only give support to Ubuntu packages. If you have installed a PPA you
can test, but make sure you indicate that in the comments.

If it fails and it is because the use of a PPA, it won't probably get
the same attention as a failure in a pure hardy installations.

Cheers,
Ara.