Call for Testing: Mir & multi-monitor

[Scott Kitterman]

Not the versions he's testing.  Bugs against PPA packages aren't bugs against 
Ubuntu and shouldn't be filed that way.

Scott K

On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:49:54 Robert Ancell wrote:
> These packages are in Ubuntu:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-system-compositor
> etc
> 
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Scott Kitterman 
<ubuntu at kitterman.com>wrote:
> > On Monday, August 26, 2013 23:22:29 Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> > > On 26 August 2013 23:14, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> > > > On Monday, August 26, 2013 23:11:32 Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> > > >> On 26 August 2013 22:10, Nicholas Skaggs <
> > 
> > nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>
> > 
> > > > wrote:
> > > >> > The Mir team is calling for a round of testing for Mir and
> > > >> > multi-monitor
> > > >> > support specifically starting today through August 28th. Help us
> > 
> > during
> > 
> > > >> > this round of testing to make sure Mir and features are thoroughly
> > > >> > tested
> > > >> > on as many devices as possible.
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > You can find all the details you need on this wiki page. The tests
> > 
> > will
> > 
> > > >> > use
> > > >> > the ppa:mir-team/system-compositor-testing ppa. Full instructions
> > 
> > can
> > 
> > > >> > be
> > > >> > found on the wiki page.
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/MultiMonitorTesting
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > Please report your results good or bad on the provided wiki results
> > > >> > page
> > > >> > or
> > > >> > the package tracker.
> > > >> > 
> > > >> > Thanks for helping make ubuntu better!
> > > >> 
> > > >> I got a crash report from unity-system-compositor, but I cannot
> > > >> report
> > > >> the bug about it because "This is not an official Ubuntu package".
> > > >> Can
> > > >> apport configuration please be correctly set in the packages from
> > > >> that
> > > >> repository to allow reporting bugs to launchpad?
> > > > 
> > > > To where would it report them?
> > > 
> > > Apport allows setting a project in launchpad against which to report
> > > bugs from a PPA installed package.
> > > Not sure, if it allows enabling reports back against ubuntu pkg.
> > 
> > Isn't that done via a hook in the package?  IIRC, there's nothing to be
> > done
> > centrally in apport.  Since these packages aren't in Ubuntu yet, they
> > should
> > be filed as project specific bugs.
> > 
> > Scott K
> > 
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