Xubuntu-testing team status

[Jim Campbell]

Hi All,

I wanted to write concerning Xubuntu's QA and testing efforts.  We currently
have a Xubuntu Testing team on Launchpad [1], but I don't think it is being
leveraged too well.  For the most part, it seems like people sign up for the
team, but they aren't engaged by anyone as far as being on a list-serve or
knowing who to contact with questions.  And I don't think that they are
being told what "testing" may actually entail, and may just see testing as
running the development version of Xubuntu and occasionally filing bugs.  The
testing wiki has some sections that are out of date, too, though Dave Morley
has updated portions of it.

Partly for these reasons, I had previously proposed eliminating the
xubuntu-testers team and migrating those members over to the regular Ubuntu
QA/testing teams, but didn't reach much of consensus on the matter.  I
thought that was a good idea, based on knowing that sometimes testers can
help out with multiple tests (e.g., both Kubuntu and Xubuntu tests), and
that having one primary team would keep everyone up to date on processes and
best-practices.  Ubuntu QA has come a long way in the past two years.
:)  Things
change quickly, and it would be difficult (and likely a waste of time) to
try and keep the Xubuntu testing wiki up to date with the changes on the
Ubuntu QA/Testing wiki....

Now that Ubuntu QA has its own mailing list, and seems to be undergoing some
changes, I thought I'd bring this up again.  Would migrating xubuntu-testers
over to ubuntu-qa (in whatever way would work for you all) be a good
idea?  What
do you think would work best for you?  I would of course also be open
someone from the Ubuntu QA team leading-up the Xubuntu testing  efforts.

Thanks very much for your consideration,

Jim

jwcampbell at ubuntu.com
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