Hi Nicholas, *every* Thursday? The final RC arrives this Thursday with the release due the following week? confused@phillw Regards, Phill. <div class="gmail_quote">On 14 April 2012 00:27, Nicholas Skaggs <<a href="mailto:nicholas.skaggs@canonical.com">nicholas.skaggs@canonical.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Greetings everyone -- the QA team is continuing it's focus on quality this cycle. With that in mind, from now until the end of the cycle we're going to take each Thursday until release and run the latest iso on our machines; reporting the results via the iso tracker. Additionally, once we run thru the installation tests, we'll be undertaking the manual application tests to test our default software stack for ubuntu across our machines. Now, if Thursday isn't a good day for you, take a day a week that does work for you and sync the daily iso and test. Please, please be sure and report your results to the iso tracker. If you test without reporting, the bugs have no potential of being fixed :-( If you find a critical bug, it doesn't hurt to also alert folks via IRC / launchpad / mailing list. I know some of you have already been testing; thanks for your efforts! Perhaps some of you haven't done iso testing before. Never fear! The process is documented here: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Procedures" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Procedures</a> As part of the process you will be looking for bugs while testing. If you find one, you should check this list first to see if it has already been reported. <a href="http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/qa/qa-open-bugs.html#" target="_blank">http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/qa/qa-open-bugs.html#</a> If not, go ahead and utilize ubuntu-bug to file the bug as usual. The second part of the testing can occur after your successful iso testing is completed. You will need to follow the process documented here to run the checkbox manual application tests: <a href="http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/RunningCheckboxTestCases" target="_blank">http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/RunningCheckboxTestCases</a> In short; sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nskaggs/checkbox-app-testing sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install checkbox-app-testing Open the dash and type 'Application Testing' and press enter to launch. The QA team is available to help out in the #ubuntu-testing on freenode. Plenty of opportunities to get help if you need it so don't be afraid to try doing the testing. Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any issues with running the tests. Also, remember you can always improve the tests, wiki instructions, etc -- nothing is ever perfect. If you see something amiss, let me know and I can help fix it. Thanks, and happy testing to everyone! Nicholas </div> -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa</a> </blockquote></div> -- <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw</a>