A question

[James Gifford]

Jeff,

Lubuntu is an "official" port, starting this cycle. More on that here[1].

Cheers,
James Gifford
http://jamesrgifford.com

[1] http://lubuntu.net/blog/lubuntu-track-official-status-ubuntu-flavour
[1] 
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/lubuntu-made-official-ubuntu-derivative/
On 08/12/2011 03:27 PM, Jeff Lane wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 15:11, Phill Whiteside<phillw at ubuntu.com>  wrote:
>> Hi, QA,
>> A couple of people have stated that Lubuntu is not 'really' on the ISO
>> testing area, one simple example would be http://qa.ubuntu.com/ which does
>> not even list xubuntu?
>
> That's because, I believe, that Lubuntu is not an "official" port,
> unlike Xubuntu and Kubuntu.  I could be wrong there, but that's my
> understanding of it.
>
> As for Xubuntu, I don't understand what you mean.
> http://qa.ubuntu.com doesn't list anything because it's a blog ;-)
> However, the ISO section at http://qa.ubuntu.com/testing/iso-testing/
> clearly shows Xubuntu in the explanation.  Perhaps you actually want
> to show them http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com , the actual ISO tracker. Though
> keep in mind that that's only active at Milestones and Release.  The
> ISO tracker provides info and test cases for Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu,
> Edubuntu, Mythbuntu, Ubuntu-Server and a few others.
>
>> I am struggling to send people who would like to get involved in QA when
>> they return to me to say "the site does not work".
>
> What does not work?  Is "the site" too difficult to understand?  Are
> the explanations at http://qa.ubuntu.com not clear enough, or
> difficult to find?  That's a pretty generic statement and if there is
> a problem that's turning away potential QA volunteers, it would be
> nice to know exactly what's broken so the team can work on fixing it.
>
>> If there are any wiki edits that you need to live and active pages I would
>> be more than happy to get them there. (I also have a gang of people who
>> would love this in their resumee).
>
> We'd love to have them!  If they have problems, the first thing to do
> is join the ubuntu-qa list and ask questions there.  It's not USENET,
> no one's going to start cussing and screaming at teh n00bs.  Or hop on
> Freenode IRC and join #ubuntu-quality, though for newbie questions, I
> prefer e-mail as IRC is not always a guarantee depending on your time
> zone.
>
> Cheers,
>
> jeff
>