Quick intro

[Peter Matulis]

On 06/13/2013 08:53 AM, John Kim wrote:
> Hello Peter,
> 
> I thought since our primary focus is saucy, we develop the docs for
> saucy. What I mean is we verify precise and raring bugs to see if
> they're present in saucy.

After some discussion, yes, this is essentially what we should be doing.
 You can even forget Precise.  Install Raring to both verify existing
bugs and to test their fixes.  Once a daily or beta is published then
you should switch to Saucy.

As Doug alluded to elsewhere in this thread, there is currently a lack
of people-power to backport fixes to the older releases.  I will
personally endeavour to capture the nastier bugs and backport them in
batches to at least the previous LTS release (Precise at this time).

> And about setting up a server, it could be just any computer into the
> house (not a full-fledged server machine)? I'm a complete newbie to
> servers as I have never played with one before.

You got it backwards.  A desktop machine is full-fledged.  A newly
installed server is very lean and requires much less resources.  Others
have recommended KVM but LXC is even easier (not good for kernel testing
though).

-pmatulis