Hardware related test cases.

[gabriel.velo at gmail.com]

Hi Damir, Thanks for you quick response !

Yes, I'm aware of the huge diversity of hardware that exist in the market
and I'm aware of the heroic effort needed to make  QA on all this devices
too. I'm not sure how to run this tests, I'll dive in the QA wiki to try to
understand the QA workflow. I have to find a way to test a release
candidate without adding any PPA since I use my laptop to working every day
and I want to keep my ubuntu as stable as possible. I guess that I should
run this test booting a live image maybe.


Thanks,

--
Gabriel.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Damir B <d4m1r_b at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Gabriel,
>
> Believe you me, there is definitely hardware testing going on for each and
> every release of Ubuntu, include updates to packages related to hardware
> components like GPU.
>
> The problem is, as I am sure you are aware, the hardware market is very
> open.....Tons and tons of combinations of laptops (makes/models) running
> even more varied combinations of GPUs. In your case, it seems an update to
> Xorg has slowed down the performance of Ubuntu overall on your laptop
> because the update was maybe not optimized for your specific combination of
> hardware. How can that be prevented in the future? Well, most of us who do
> "hardware related testing" do so with the hardware that we personally own
> and use. This means in your case, nobody will the same make/model as you
> tested the performance of Xorg, or maybe they did but didn't report an
> issue.
>
> To prevent in the future, you could subscribe to an unstable PPA for Xorg
> and report issues with your specific hardware to the developers BEFORE they
> release it publicly through a stable PPA or in this case, probably an
> official Ubuntu repo.
>
> Hope you see how this sort of thing occurs and how you can help to prevent
> similar issues in the future,
>
> Damir
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:41:18 -0300
> > Subject: Hardware related test cases.
> > From: gabriel.velo at gmail.com
> > To: ubuntu-quality at lists.ubuntu.com
> >
> > Hello QA team,
> >
> > Is there any way to help to avoid this kind of bugs popup in every
> > distribution upgrade ?
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1386721
> >
> > Is there any test cases related to hardware performance, video
> performance
> > specifically . Bugs like this has the potential to make a laptop unusable
> > after the dist upgrade.
> >
> > I'd like to help trying to avoid this kind of bugs in future releases,
> >
> > Any guidance is welcome :-)
> >
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-- 
Gabriel.