Greetings and Salutations.

[Nicholas Skaggs]

Hey Scott, just thought I'd echo here what I sent to Stephen :-)

Again it's wonderful to hear from you! We're always excited to see new 
faces.

At the moment we as a team are planning our work for the next few months 
@ vUDS:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-quality/2013-May/003710.html

Even if you missed the sessions, it would be helpful to review the notes 
and blueprints (and video!)

http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-s/group/topic-s-community-quality.html

This time of year we're planning for what and how we'll test over the 
next cycle and doing maintenance tasks and work to help us. So for 
example, now is the time we'll review our testcases, make a big effort 
to write new ones, and work on the qa dashboard.

The team wiki has a wealth of information and documentation on 
contributing testcases or test results.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities

At the moment, the only thing we as a team are actively testing is the 
daily iso's. It's not a bad idea to start there and learn about the 
qatracker and how to utilize it.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/QATracker
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Walkthrough

 From there you can explore writing manual and automated testcases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/ContributingTestcases

You'll note that there are video screencasts for all of this information 
on this youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/qualitybecomesyou

Finally, as the cycle continues, we'll start doing cadence testing and 
calls for testing which will have specific packages and instructions to 
test all the new "stuff" landing in saucy.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Cadence
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/CallforTesting/Walkthrough

Whew! That might seem like a lot to digest, but take your time and ask 
questions! Please feel free to email me again if you get stuck anywhere. 
There's a group of folks usually on #ubuntu-quality on freenode -- freel 
free to drop by and say hello anytime.

Cheers,

Nicholas

On 05/12/2013 11:52 PM, Scott O'Nanski wrote:
> Hey there!
>
> I just joined the Ubuntu QA. I have no previous experience, and I'm a 
> novice Linux user, but I'm here to learn and hopefully contribute.
>
> Scott.
>