Quick Question...
Thomas Corwin
dog1489 at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 14 19:40:09 UTC 2013
The message was meant or the Manual team. I chose the wrong mailing list. Sorry about that!
Thomas
On Mar 14, 2013, at 1:23 PM, ubuntu-quality-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
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> 1. Upgrade tests are there own product (Nicholas Skaggs)
> 2. Re: Hackfest planning (Sergio Meneses)
> 3. Re: Quick Question... (Sergio Meneses)
> 4. Re: Upgrade tests are there own product (St?phane Graber)
> 5. Introduction Harry Hawk (HABS)
> 6. Re: [Lubuntu-qa] 13.04 Beta 1 (Nio Wiklund)
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> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:12:57 -0400
> From: Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>
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> Pas was asking about why upgrade tests are currently there own product
> (image) on the tracker, and as such are lumped away from the main
> product (image) tests. Is there a reason for this? Pasi was hoping more
> visibility would be had if those tests were pushed back into the main
> products themselves. So for example, the upgrade xubuntu tests would
> appear under xubuntu with the other installation tests.
>
> I know historically they've been seperated out, so I was hoping for some
> background information or feedback from someone who might have a reason
> to object to the change of moving these tests back into the main products.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nicholas
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> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:14:23 -0500
> From: Sergio Meneses <sergioandresmeneses at gmail.com>
> To: "Javier P.L." <chilicuil at ubuntu.com>
> Cc: "ubuntu-quality at lists.ubuntu.com"
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> Subject: Re: Hackfest planning
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> Hi all!
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> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:32 AM, Javier P.L. <chilicuil at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> On 13/03/13 at 06:41pm, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
>>> I know we're all knee deep in testing this week, but I would like to
>>> talk about planning for our next hackfest. We've done 3 so far this
>>> cycle, and I'd like to squeeze in one more if we can before beta2
>>> testing.
>>>
>>> I'd love to hear preferred days/times, what you'd like to see
>>> covered / format (IRC vs g+ vs ?), etc. I'd like to see manual and
>>> automated tests being written and hacked on as part of the 'fest.
>>> Now is the time to get your feedback in :-)
>
> IRC would be better (imho) but we can try G+ as well
>
>
>>>
>>> To give you something concrete to work against, here's my thoughts
>>> on how I would run the fest.
>>>
>>> We'll pick a 2-4? hour window on IRC on freenode in #ubuntu-quality
>>> We'll encourage pending open bugs, aka, needed cases, to be try and
>>> closed as part of the fest
>>> We'll commit and merge everything possible at the end of the fest
>>> We'll celebrate with virtual party supplies once complete :-)
>>
>> Cool, I'd like to see it for 1 full day instead of some specific hours, it
>> works
>> better for me at weekends but I don't expect other persons to be as
>> antisocial
>> as me =)
> +1 I think weekends is better for all us...
>
>
>> In my opinion I think it could follow the same format as the Ubuntu Bug
>> day[0],
>> which means a list of todo items should be generated somewhere (probably
>> the
>> wiki) and everyone could be able work on the ones that they want. In such
>> format
>> I'd like to see extra help on #ubuntu-quality, I mean, I've always been
>> able to
>> find help in there when needed, however I think it'd great if quality
>> members
>> could commit to be in there at specific hours depending of their time
>> zones so
>> voluntaries can find specially welcoming quality members waiting for them.
>
> I had the chance to participate in the bug day and its format is very cool!
> maybe we can add some ideas.
>
>
>>
>> Just my 2 cents, I'm looking forward for participating =)
>>
>> [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay
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> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:17:09 -0500
> From: Sergio Meneses <sergioandresmeneses at gmail.com>
> To: Thomas Corwin <dog1489 at hotmail.com>
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> I dont know if I get your point completely, but you're asking for a new
> ubuntu-testcase about wine, right?
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> Sergio Meneses
> Linux User: #478743
> Ubuntu User: #24056
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> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Thomas Corwin <dog1489 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone! Now, I don't like to ask bad questions, especially when I
>> don't have a voice in the matter, but, has anyone ever thought of adding a
>> Wine section to the manual?
>>
>> Now, I know what some of you are thinking, "Why would we need this? It's
>> completely unrelated." I think it is relative, mainly because it is a very
>> common application used in Linux.
>>
>> If somehow, this idea is approved, I will take this section, otherwise, I
>> may not be able to help in anyway to the manual, due to the fact I know
>> more about Wine, than any of the available sections for editing.
>>
>> Thought I'd ask!
>> Thomas Corwin
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> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:18:39 -0400
> From: St?phane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>
> To: Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>
> Cc: "ubuntu-quality at lists.ubuntu.com"
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> On 03/14/2013 12:12 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
>> Pas was asking about why upgrade tests are currently there own product
>> (image) on the tracker, and as such are lumped away from the main
>> product (image) tests. Is there a reason for this? Pasi was hoping more
>> visibility would be had if those tests were pushed back into the main
>> products themselves. So for example, the upgrade xubuntu tests would
>> appear under xubuntu with the other installation tests.
>>
>> I know historically they've been seperated out, so I was hoping for some
>> background information or feedback from someone who might have a reason
>> to object to the change of moving these tests back into the main products.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Nicholas
>
> That'd be because a respin of an image shouldn't reset the upgrade
> results. The upgrade products are typically reset all at the same time
> whenever a massive change happens that affects upgrades.
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> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:54:22 -0400
> From: HABS <habs at panix.com>
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> Subject: Introduction Harry Hawk
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> I have purchased at Nexus 7 which I have dedicated to testing Ubuntu and
> have the current install of 13.04 (March 9th) via the Nexus Core Installer
> and updated via the Software Update. More often than note the update
> process fails. I have yet to install the touch apps, which I plan on doing
> shortly.
>
> My name is Harry S. Hawk. I'm moderately technical end use who has been
> using *Nix since the mid 1980's. I have the most experience with NetBSD and
> Ubuntu. I have a background in technology integration, marketing
> communications and cooking. I am an expert at cooking regional hamburgers.
> I hold degrees from NYU's ITP program and masters from SNHU's marketing
> program. I have worked at AT&T Bell Labs, EF Hutton, and a variety of
> advertising agencies.
>
> My most recent technical employment was at the newly relaunched Commodore
> USA. I am currently managing retail operations and marketing at the Leske's
> Bakery division of The Bread Depo, Inc. If you are in Brooklyn or visiting
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> /hawk
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> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:22:16 +0100
> From: Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com>
> To: Alex Janko <ajbiz11 at gmail.com>
> Cc: "ubuntu-quality at lists.ubuntu.com"
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> Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-qa] 13.04 Beta 1
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> Is there a way to send this task to a developer, who would know
>
> 1. where that test is done (the source code)
>
> 2. how to do it (or pass the code to someone less skilled, but enough
> skilled to compile and try out a snippet with that particular test on
> various computers).
>
> If it is plain C or a bash or sh shellscript, I might dare an attempt at
> it, but I definitely need some handholding, above all, I have no idea
> where to find where the test is done.
>
> On 2013-03-14 12:42, Alex Janko wrote:
>> Well...I assume its in assembly or CSomething and I know neither of
>> those languages
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Mar 14, 2013, at 7:37 AM, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I was thinking about how to report a bug: what details to check out and
>>> explain.
>>>
>>> I think I understand what you want to do, and I think it will be
>>> possible, but, well, I've retired from programming. Nowadays I'm helping
>>> and testing. So I don't know where and how that check should be changed.
>>>
>>> But when you have something to test, I'm willing to check that it works
>>> in my Pentium M computer.
>>>
>>> On 2013-03-14 11:53, Alex Janko wrote:
>>>> We were just looking at how to possibly fix the CD loader to not require 7bit
>>>>
>>>> Like:
>>>>
>>>> If Pentium M {
>>>> Skip PAE Check
>>>> } Else If (PAE=1) {
>>>> boot();
>>>> } Else {
>>>> paeErrorBoot();
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Sorry O only knew how to write that out in java :)
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 14, 2013, at 1:17 AM, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Phill,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have an IBM Thinkpad T42 with a non-pae Pentium M, that accepts 7bit's
>>>>> fake-pae. What do you need? Please specify in detail, and I'll try to do
>>>>> it :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Nio alias sudodus
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2013-03-13 02:45, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>>>>>> Hi alex,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I do not have enough information to ask the developers about your problem.
>>>>>> We really do need a bug filing as per my earlier email to you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Phill.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 12 March 2013 14:15, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Oooch!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can always grab a non-pae version and install that so that the machine
>>>>>>> has a (u)buntu running. Lubuntu were still certainly releasing non-pae
>>>>>>> versions up to 12.04 *i386 *[1] which should install on that machine.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Phill.
>>>>>>> 1. http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/precise/release/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 12 March 2013 14:02, Alex Janko <ajbiz11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Not anymore, no
>>>>>>>> And my sash box just went down...for some reason when running a "chmod -R
>>>>>>>> 444 /var/www/dir/dir/" it decided to ignore all of that and start at /
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mar 12, 2013, at 10:00 AM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Alex,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Have you got a version of ubuntu installed onto that computer?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Phill.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 12 March 2013 13:38, Alex Janko <ajbiz11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Being a noob...how do I do that exactly...link?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mar 12, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Alex,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> would you please raise a bug against ubiquity, open a terminal session
>>>>>>>>> and issue:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ubuntu-bug ubiquity
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> from the pentium M machine, I'm not too sure what the team can do about
>>>>>>>>> it if the machine does not advertise it, but it will allow them to have a
>>>>>>>>> think.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Phill.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 12 March 2013 12:34, Alex Janko <ajbiz11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hmm...I also notice that there is an issue with Pentium M models...they
>>>>>>>>>> have PAE but yet don't advertise it...is there any way to allow the PAE
>>>>>>>>>> ISOs to boot on Pentium M computers?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I've been told it had to do with the boot check, not an actual failed
>>>>>>>>>> boot
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Mar 12, 2013, at 8:29 AM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Lars,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> well spotted.... I thought the list of testing was a bit shorter, but
>>>>>>>>>> didn't spot why.... Any ways,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> 12:00:20) phillw: Hi folks, has AMD64+Mac been dropped from the ISO's?
>>>>>>>>>>> (12:06:37) cjwatson: phillw: No change there
>>>>>>>>>>> (12:07:05) ***cjwatson fixes bug 1153992 and tries to work out what
>>>>>>>>>>> to respin
>>>>>>>>>>> (12:07:06) ubot2: Launchpad bug 1153992 in Ubuntu CD Images "Raring
>>>>>>>>>>> server and precise d-i installations fail at the clock configuring step"
>>>>>>>>>>> [Critical,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1153992
>>>>>>>>>>> (12:08:31) ***cjwatson sticks a notice on the iso.qa board
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> So, they're onto it :)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Phill.
>>>>>>>>>> P.S. you are allowed to ask directly on #ubuntu-release, the good
>>>>>>>>>> people on there do not bite :)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 12 March 2013 11:40, Lars Nood?n <lars.nooden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 12.03.2013 04:53, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> 1. http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/261/builds
>>>>>>>>>>>> 2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I notice that there are no AMD64+Mac images. Are we skipping those
>>>>>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>>>>>> time?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>>> /Lars
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