New Member Introduction & Testing Wiki Mailing List URL Question - Take 2

[Mitch Towner]

Note to self - mailing lists do not like HTML emails. My apologies for 
the jumbled mess that was my previous post. Please see below for a 
properly formatted plain text version of my original introductory post.


Hi. My name is Mitch. I have recently signed up to the Ubuntu Testing 
Team & this mailing list, with the goal of trying to contribute back to 
Ubuntu. I first started using Ubuntu a couple of years ago (7.04 Feisty 
release, I think) & I switched to being a full time Ubuntu user when 
7.10 came out. At that time I (and a couple of my work colleagues) were 
lucky enough to be able to convince the management team at my work place 
to switch the whole company network (currently 200 or so desktops & 
laptops) from Windows 2000 (*shudder*) to Ubuntu. We are still trying to 
convince the management team that Ubuntu Server should replace the 
Fedora based servers that are currently operating in-house. From that 
time on we have been creating & continually improving upon an internal 
company SOE for use within our workplace. I am also currently working on 
an Ubuntu based SOE PXE server to aid in our rapid deployment of Ubuntu 
within our company.

At my workplace (NCSS - http://ncss.com.au/) we are focussed almost 
entirely on HP/Compaq equipment as we are currently Australia's largest 
HP/Compaq Authorised Service Centre. As such, my main focus has been on 
resolving issues related to HP/Compaq Desktop & Laptop computers running 
Ubuntu. I have been focussing on sound related issues for HP laptops, 
but these seem to be almost entirely resolved now in karmic (with the 
installation of an alsa backports package). I have also been 
contributing to the Translations team, but I have found that there is 
not much work to be done in en_AU translations.

In one of the many different technical roles I have had at my current 
employer over the years, I was Quality Assurance Officer. As such I was 
motivated to explore QA testing within Ubuntu. I am currently reading 
through the wiki pages for the Testing & QA teams to find out where I 
can best help. Hopefully I will be able to give back to the community as 
it has helped me to see that computing can be fun, interesting & 
exciting again!

As I was reading through the mailing list archives, I read that it was 
suggested to another new team member to "user test" the wiki itself. I 
noticed a slight spelling mistake in the URL for for the ubuntu-testing 
mailing list & have rectified that so it is no longer bringing up a 404 
Error. But upon further reading of this mailing list archive I believe 
it may be better to change this mailing list URL to point to this 
ubuntu-qa mailing list instead of the seemingly inactive 
"ubuntu-testing" mailing list. The page on the wiki I am referring to is 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing .

I was going to change this, but upon reading the "TODO" list 
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/TODO) I noticed that there is possibly 
another mailing list (ubuntu-testing at l.u.c) so I was unsure what mailing 
list URL should be displayed on the Testing wiki page. Can someone 
please let me know what mailing list URL should be used so that I can 
change it?

I have just noticed that this is starting to become somewhat long-winded 
& that was not my intention so I will stop writing this & get back to 
reading more of the Testing wiki & documentation :) I look forward to 
being able to help with testing within Ubuntu & to finally be able to 
give something back to this awesome community.

Kind Regards,
Mitch Towner