new member and SRU Verification

[Steve Beattie]

Hi Vikram!

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 11:20:24PM -0500, Vikram Dhillon wrote:
>         How is everyone doing? I have been a member of Ubuntu testing
> team, but I just learned how to test ISO's and such for releases.

That's great. Lucid Alpha 1 is coming this week, so any help you can
give on that front will be appreciated.

> I understand packaging software in Ubuntu, so I wanted to join SRU
> Verification team to take on more responsibility and learn more. Please
> give me more guidance on what steps do I need to take further.

Sure, thanks for your interest.  For the record, SRUs are
Stable Release Updates, and SRU Verifications are the process
we go through to verify a proposed SRU so that it can be
released as an update.  The SRU process is documented at
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates>.

SRU verification is a great way to participate in the Ubuntu project
as well as learn more about the software itself. Basically, what we'd
like to see for membership in sru-verification is a demonstration of
understanding of how to perform an SRU verification, typically in
the form of some example bugs where feedback was given (similar to
the bugcontrol team application process).

Basically, an applicant needs to demonstrate that they're able to:

 1) install the relevant software packages,
 2) attempt to reproduce the bug (hopefully successfully)
 3) install the versions from the -proposed pocket
 4) again, attempt to reproduce the bug (hopefully failing),
 5) look for regressions introduced by the update

In your case, I'm unable to find any any such feedback in any of the
bug reports that the sru-verification is subscribed to; if you could
point me to some examples, I'd be happy to approve your membership.
(Fair warning, the sru-verification team is subscribed to a large
number of bug reports, and thus gets a non-trivial amount of
bugmail. Filtering incoming email is recommended.)

There are other ways to contribute to the sru-verification team;
currently, there are a couple different web pages we use to track
which packages are in the proposed queue:

  http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/pending-sru.html (archive admin view)
  http://people.canonical.com/~sbeattie/sru_todo.html (mostly covering main)

Unifying and improving those would appreciated,
as well as helping to improve the documentation at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification
would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again for your interest!

-- 
Steve Beattie
<sbeattie at ubuntu.com>
http://NxNW.org/~steve/
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