[ubuntu-uk] ISO Testing - Getting Started

[K.de Jong]

Does not boot for me
I tried the amd64 and i386 on my demoted Xeon for an i686
currently i run amd64 binaries


2010/9/9 Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood.lug at gmail.com>:
> Hi All,
>
> The Beta of Maverick Meerkat (what will be Ubuntu 10.10) is now out,
> so it's a good time to test the ISOs and find as many bugs as possible
> before the final release.
>
> Popey wrote some details about what's involved, and I've included his
> mail below in case you've deleted it.
>
>
> P.S. Yes, I know it's a top-post. It was done intentionally this time :-)
> On 2 June 2010 14:58, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
>> Hi All.
>>
>> (Note I have sent this to Ubuntu UK LoCo mailing list and bcc'ed all
>> the people who volunteered to help, apologies if you get this twice,
>> this was intentional, but won't happen again)
>>
>> I mentioned a while ago that it might be nice to kick off a UK LoCo
>> Team for doing some essential testing of Ubuntu ISO images. I've taken
>> the lead from the Italian LoCo who have been doing this for the last 6
>> months or so very successfully. I figured it was a great way to get
>> people contributing to the project without much in the way of deep
>> technical skills.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/TestingTeam - Main introduction page.
>> Read this first.
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/TestingTeam#Participate - Specifically
>> this bit if you're interested in helping out with this activity.
>>
>> The idea being that people go through the 'Participate' section and
>> get themselves familiar with the process, and fulfil all the
>> pre-requisites therein. Most are easy and you may already have done
>> such as 'Register on launchpad', others you might not have done.
>> There's some reading material in there too.
>>
>> I've created a team on launchpad:-
>>
>> http://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-uk-testing
>>
>> However, it's a moderated team and the policy for joining is that
>> you've performed the steps outlined in the 'Participate' steps above.
>> This enables us to ensure a level of quality control within the team.
>> Join once you've gone through the participate steps. Note that the
>> final step on the Participate is to actually download an ISO image and
>> perform a QA test. So this ensures that anyone who joins the team has
>> fulfilled all the necessary requirements. It might look onerous but it
>> really isn't.
>>
>> Please join the team once you're ready.
>>
>> There is an IRC channel for testing which is #ubuntu-testing - NOTE:
>> not the UK loco channel, but the testing team IRC channel. I checked
>> with the testing team at UDS and they'd rather we had committed
>> testers hang out in their channel (as well as ours) and testing
>> related conversations happen there. So you're welcome to hang out in
>> there, or join as and when you're doing testing.
>>
>> One thing we might want to consider in the future is sharing mobile
>> phone numbers (for the willing) as the testing team sometimes need
>> test performed in double-quick time. If they can get hold of people
>> quickly they can expedite those tests. For now though, for non-urgent
>> stuff we can use IRC and this mailing list.
>>
>> Maverick (10.10) Alpha 1 ISOs are (just about) ready and waiting to be tested!
>>
>> I'm just as new to this as many of you, so we're going on a bit of an
>> adventure together. Questions / comments / suggestions very welcome!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Al.
>
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>



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Met vriendelijke groeten,
Keimpe de Jong