First set of 16.04.5 RC images ready for testing

flocculant flocculant at gmx.co.uk
Tue Jul 31 04:33:49 UTC 2018


On 31/07/18 02:19, Lukasz Zemczak wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> The first set of official working builds for the upcoming xenial
> 16.04.5 point release (due this Thursday, August 2nd) have been added
> to the tracker [1] for all supported flavours. We had a few images for
> this milestone already but had to re-spin due to quickly spotted
> regressions. The ones now seem to be test-worthy at least.
Would be useful to know what the regressions were ...
>
> Which is why please proceed with testing as soon as possible. Even
> though we still have some days until the planned release, don't wait
> until the last minute -  the earlier testing starts the more time we
> might have for fixing any blockers found during testing.
You mean the earlier that testing starts, the sooner we can rebuild, so 
your testing gets reset to zero again ;)

It pretty much makes sense to wait before testing out in the real world 
where we test manually.
>   As mentioned
> by Adam during the 18.04.1 call-for-testing: images that have no
> testing can't be released!
>
> Good luck!
>
> [1] http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/393/builds
>
> Cheers,
>
Cheers




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