ISO tracker and HW-certification site merge - overview

[Mike Rooney]

Great work, this sounds like an excellent, wonderful, and needed
overhaul to help Ubuntu (and Linux) take the next step.

I think this would put the framework in place for allowing users to
search for a list of compatible machines based on what they need. For
example, I could search for a machine with out-of-the box support
based on specifications like: laptop, webcam, microphone, media keys,
etc. Once we have something like this, we make it easy for users to
select their system based on Ubuntu, and not the other way around,
turning the tables on the current sales/marketing/development
selection pressures.

When people can easily vote for Ubuntu-compatible systems with their
wallet, I think we have a serious win-win situation on our hands, and
a force not to be quickly overlooked!

Any thoughts regarding this?

Mike Rooney
mrooney at gmail.com



On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Henrik Nilsen Omma
<henrik at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At last week's meeting I said I would send out an overview of the work
> on merging the Ubuntu ISO tracking and Canonical hardware certification
> sites.
>
> We had originally decided to do this simply because we wanted to add
> automated test case submission to the ISO tracker and because the
> tracker site needed a general rewrite. In the meantime the certification
> team has joined Ubuntu QA with the general aim of making the testing
> work for certification more integrated with the development and release
> process, so all the more reason now.
>
> Functionality from the Ubuntu QA ISO tracking site will be
> re-implemented in the python/zope codebase of the certification site.
> The objective is to leverage the automation tools of the hardware
> certification process to do automated reporting of ISO test results,
> while retaining the functionality of the current ISO tracking site.
>
> Test results will be submitted from a QA testing tool (based on the
> current hwtest tool). This will be available on Live CDs and installed
> systems, making it possible to run a range of automated and manual tests
> from these environments and upload results, which will then be
> automatically updated on the new QA ISO tracking website. The revised
> site will be accessible to the ubuntu community (the current
> certification site at https://certification.canonical.com/ is for
> Canonical and its certification customers only).
>
> The people working on this project include Stéphane Graber, the original
> developer of the QA ISO tracking site, as well as David Murphy and Marc
> Tardif who have been working on the Canonical certification website and
> tools. They are currently in close collaboration to deliver more
> automation to the ISO testing process before the beta release of Intrepid.
>
> Henrik
>
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