Hardware related test cases.

[gabriel.velo at gmail.com]

Nicolas,

I cannot find any any milestone for vivid alpha in
http://laptop.qa.ubuntu.com/, is this gonna be added in the next days ?

--
Gabriel.


On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Nicholas Skaggs <
nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com> wrote:

> Gaberial, downloading and running the current image of vivid is an
> excellent way to avoid the bug in the future by letting developers know
> about it know, rather than later.
>
> Check out: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/DevelopmentSetup
>
> and
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Roles/Tester
>
> Nicholas
>
>
> On 01/22/2015 04:21 PM, gabriel.velo at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> 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.
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>>
>>
>


-- 
Gabriel.