Hardware related test cases.

[Pasi Lallinaho]

Gabriel,

the alphas are released and thus there won't be any more alpha 
milestones in the tracker for Vivid.

Cheers,
Pasi

On 2015-01-23 02:44, gabriel.velo at gmail.com wrote:
> 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 :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Gabriel.
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>>>
>


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