Ubiquity 2.1.30 - Call For Testing

[Ara Pulido]

Hello guys,

As you may have noticed, in the latest ISO testing cycles, some ubiquity
regressions have been found that needed some late rebuilds.

To avoid that, we are going to ISO test every time there is a new
ubiquity upload. Obviously, we cannot ISO test everything every time
there is a new ubiquity version! Instead of that, we are going to follow
a pairwise approach [1].

Go to the Pairwise tracker:

    http://pairwise.qa.ubuntu.com/

You will see that we are going to test 6 different images, and each of
them contain different test cases.
If you click on any of those images, the testcases you will see are of
type "PartitionSchema - Options". That would mean that you will need to
test that particular partition schema, selecting any other options.

Example:

Under Kubuntu amd64 we have 3 testcases:

 * Autoresize - None (we will select autoresize partition, and no any
other special options)

 * FullDisk - OEM (we will select Full disk partition, and we will use
the OEM mode)

 * Manual - None (we will select Manual partition, and we won't select
any other special options).

Apart from covering the normal testcases, you can check for changes in
ubiquity since the latest performed testing. As the Alpha3 testing
included ubiquity 2.1.27, and the current version is 2.1.30, I have
attached (below) the changes in 2.1.28, 2.1.29 and 2.1.30.

Please, sync your ISOs and help us making the Ubuntu installation
experience better.

Thanks!
Ara.

FAQ: How do I get a CD with ubiquity 2.1.30?
Answer: The latest build already includes this version. Just sync your
ISOs using the sync method you normally use.

[1] http://www.pairwise.org/


 ubiquity (2.1.30) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Raise permissions for misc.execute calls in bin/ubiquity.
  * Don't allow oem-user-config and oem-config to both be enabled.

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Move the alpha warning for the GTK+ frontend to the language page.
    It fits better there now that we have the greeter functionality.
  * Push handling the progress bar when on the partitioning page
    properly into ubi-partman.
  * Show the advanced partitioning page immediately, now that its
    progress is displayed in the window contents (LP: #336751).
 -- Mario Limonciello < Mario_Limonciello at Dell.com>   Wed, 03 Mar 2010
19:40:15 -0600

ubiquity (2.1.29) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Align description labels to the top left on the user-setup page and get
    rid of the width request (LP: #524827).
  * Fix references to create_label and allow_change_step in the KDE
    frontend's PartMan module (LP: #527932).
  * str.split returns a list of one empty string when splitting on an
    empty string.
  * Update the KDE frontend with the new slideshow location (as of
    ubiquity-slideshow 15).
  * The timezone is perfectly usable at half its width and height, so
    only request that.  This also means we're not trying to guess how
    much space we can reasonably take up with the map, but rather
    letting the rest of the interface determine the width and height of
    the installer window.
  * If the screen resolution is particularly low (< 600px height), allow
    the user to scroll through the user setup page content.
  * Left-align the labels on the segmented_bars.
  * Make the segmented_bars narrower.
  * Set the width of the language selection treeview to the minimum
    required to fit the contents.  Do not allow it to expand.
  * Move the greeter functionality into ubiquity itself, still
    accessible with the maybe-ubiquity boot option (LP: #530713).
  * Automatic update of included source packages: netcfg 1.51ubuntu2,
    partconf 1.32ubuntu1, partman-base 138ubuntu1.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Fix choose_partition thawing to handle free space at the end of
    update_partitions (LP: #527848).


ubiquity (2.1.28) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * Copy oem-config debconf questions only after we're done using the
    database.

  [ Mario Limonciello ]
  * Don't mistakenly always show ubiquity running in debug mode warning in
    oem-config mode.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * KDE frontend:
    - Fix partman component for use_as signature change (LP: #527468).
    - on_partitionResized needs a self argument (LP: #527457).

  [ Jonathan Riddell ]
  * kde_ui.py: Always show progressDialog during the install stage (LP:
    #527448)