Beta 1 soon

[Elfy]

On 30/08/13 15:22, Richard Elkins wrote:
> I am a software developer so 'buntu distribution testing is still a 
> bit new to me.  I am up for helping out with testing all the way to 
> release on my orphaned-by-Intel D2550MUD2 (Cedar View) motherboard. 
> Actually, Saucy from the Mir testing ISO using the Modesetting X 
> driver has been running very well from my perspective.  It has become 
> my everyday system, even for long development compiles and builds.
>
> So, a few questions from a distribution testing beginner:
>
This might be of help - a basic walkthrough of the iso testing system - 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO/Walkthrough
> 1. Is there a test plan available for Saucy Beta 1 that I should read? 
> I would be looking for a specification that included all of the 
> installation variants that are thought to be desirable to test. Batch 
> processing testing?  Desktop operations testing?
>
All of the iso tests have a testcase associated with them - if you look 
at the current daily tests you can see.

http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/270/builds/52429/testcases 
shows all the tests for 64bit iso's we test.

If you look at the first in the list you can see there is a link to both 
a download and a testcase.

http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/testcases/1301/info

If you run through that testcase and all works as expected then it is a 
pass.

The same can be said for 32bit.

You can see that we need tests done for

Install - autoresize, entire disk, manual partitioning
The livecd itself
Desktop
Post installation

Once beta is released (should be Thursday next) then it will be 
available at http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker - further detail of that 
will make it to the list once available.

If you have questions then there are generally people about on our 
relevant irc channel - #xubuntu-devel on freenode. You can get to that 
from a browser with http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=xubuntu-devel

I'll be about from Thursday for a few days if you need me. (UK time)

If you have the time in between now and then - you can do test for the 
dailies - http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/270/builds

The beta test will be no different.

> 2. When the Beta 1 ISO is available, grab it and perform a ground up 
> re-install is ideal?  That would be fine by me.  All my important 
> stuff is on a network drive.  I think that my rig would run annoyingly 
> slow with a VM setup.
>
That's up to you - at the moment I have one machine I can do physical 
tests on and this one which I do with virtual machines.
> 3. How should we maintain the Beta 1 ISO once it is installed?  Is 
> `sudo apt-get dist-upgrade` sufficient to fetch daily updates or is it 
> desirable to occasionally do another ground-up?  I suppose that 
> depends somewhat on whether or not you want to repeat installation 
> testing, yes?
>
Once it is installed then sudo apt-get update is sufficient.
> Thank you,
>
> Richard
>
Further to all that iso testing - we are also pushing for package testing.

More detail for that if you are interested (and I hope you are) can be 
found here 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2013-August/009211.html

Elfy

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