<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> I was asked about the alternate iso's, so I thought I would share. The ubiquity installer team has a goal (blueprint: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-q-ubiquity-lvm-luks">https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-q-ubiquity-lvm-luks</a>) this cycle to eliminate the need for the alternate installer (and hence, the alternate installer cd's). This of course would be for ubuntu only, the flavors teams are free to continue to ship and support (or not) alternate images. The team has noted it will be a lot of work to accomplish this, so alternate installer images will continue to be generated in the meantime as a fallback in case they are unable to meet all usecases, etc. In addition, you will notice that no ubuntu desktop DVD is being built for alpha 1. This is because a goal has been put forward to migrate to one image per architecture. Note this is an on-going goal, and still being actively discussed. In short, alternate images will be produced and need to be tested in the interim. No desktop DVD for this milestone Nicholas On 06/04/2012 11:23 AM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4FCCD30E.1030705@canonical.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> The alpha one images are being built as we speak :-) <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/221/builds">http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/221/builds</a> Look for yours to show up today and ready your test machines :-) Nicholas On 05/31/2012 12:33 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4FC79D51.2010902@canonical.com" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> The Alpha One milestone is quickly approaching us. Starting next Monday the first images will be generated for the milestone and we'll begin milestone testing. As a pre-cursor to that testing, we are looking to test now and report issues in advance. The goal is to run a daily of your iso sometime in the week before the milestone image is built to find any issues before the intense milestone testing, so that respins and major issues can be avoided. Take the time this week to grab a daily of your adopted iso and report results! Many thanks to those folks who have already done so (thank you <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> gwjvan and <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> cpatrick08, and others I may have missed). If you haven't subscribed to be informed about new builds for your iso, please do so. It will help keep you informed next week as we do the iso testing for the milestone. Here's a few links that may come in useful for you: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Procedures">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Procedures</a> I can highly recommend zsync and, if your testing must occur in a VM, testdrive. Zsync makes it easy to keep your isos up-to-date without having to re-download them. <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ZsyncCdImage">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ZsyncCdImage</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UsingDevelopmentReleases">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UsingDevelopmentReleases</a> As always, happy testing everyone! Remember Alpha One is an upgrade time for many of the folks who like to live on the bleeding edge. Let's make sure our images let them join us in Quantal fun :-) Nicholas <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> </body> </html>