12.04.2 Testing Needs

[Nicholas Skaggs]

On 01/22/2013 05:15 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi Nicholas,
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 05:03:45PM -0500, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
>> I was speaking with Paul on IRC about 12.04.2, and he mentioned the
>> hardware enablement changes (a new stack) is going to be pushed to
>> precise during 12.04.2. During the .1 release, we pre-tested the
>> kernel, and I think some of the video changes as well (we did this
>> by having special call for testing events, and utilized ppa
>> versions).
>> AFAIK, there is going to be new kernel, boot, and video bits coming
>> for 12.04.2 -- is this correct? Depending on if these packages can
>> be made via a ppa, we (community QA team) can test them before the
>> images are spun. If not, we can pursue a smoke testing across
>> hardware strategy once the images are live, and give those bits
>> special consideration. Let me know how we might be able to help.
>> Cheers,
> These changes are already live in the daily precise images:
>
>    http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/precise/daily-live/current/
>
> Note that this new stack is the existing stack from 12.10, and is kept in
> sync with any SRUs done there (for kernels etc).  So I'm not sure to what
> extent hardware-specific smoke testing is needed; if 12.10 works on the
> hardware, 12.04.2 should also work, except if there's breakage caused by
> mismatches between the 12.10 enablement stack and the upper layers of the
> 12.04 software stack.  Smoke testing is still welcome, I just don't think we
> should put too much emphasis on the hardware side of things here as that's
> not likely to be the kind of bug we'll run into.
>
> Thanks,
Steve, wonderful thank you. So it doesn't sound like we fear any hw 
enablement issues and can plan to stick to the current set of testcases 
for the images and ensure we pass. Of course, that's not to say we won't 
be mindful of such things while testing ;-)

Nicholas
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