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The first image available for Final Beta testing should be available
shortly at the tracker for testing [1]<br>
<br>
Due for release on Thursday 24th - we need to test this image for
installs and upgrades. <br>
<br>
Probably the most important of the pre-release milestones. This is
the penultimate opportunity for testing what we'll be releasing at
the end of October, anything found during the RC test phase (unless
it's going to cause a non-release) is rather too late. <br>
<br>
So please roll up your sleeves - grab yourself an image or two and
test for all of us.<br>
<br>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid10"><span
class="author-g-wa3pw3yie0s7psen">While people might not think
that reporting to the tracker has any importance - it does.</span></div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid11"><br>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid25"><span
class="author-g-wa3pw3yie0s7psen">If it ever gets to the state
that we only have a </span><span
class="author-g-wa3pw3yie0s7psen i"><i>few</i></span><span
class="author-g-wa3pw3yie0s7psen"> people reporting, prior to us
releasing for </span><span class="author-g-wa3pw3yie0s7psen i"><i>many</i></span><span
class="author-g-wa3pw3yie0s7psen"> people to download it, we
would be in an rather unenviable position.</span></div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid13"><br>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid14"><span
class="author-g-wa3pw3yie0s7psen">While the team involved in
getting our image in a position for release is motivated and
committed to doing so, we are also perhaps too 'close' to see
all the bugs, we are totally reliant on users and those of you
in our testers LP group to test for us. Even if the whole of
Xubuntu Team ran the dev version for a whole cycle - we would
only see a few bugs compared to more of us all (users and team)
doing so. <br>
<br>
What you see now is in the main what will be seen in that LTS
release - so if it's not working properly now, then unless we
know - it's not going to be working then. <br>
<br>
I'll repeat the bug tagging request we have made recently -
please tag bugs (for applications) as <b>xubuntu-exp wily</b><br>
</span></div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid15"><br>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid49"><span
class="author-g-wa3pw3yie0s7psen">Bear in mind that in effect
the last few regular releases since 14.04 have all been leading
up to the next LTS - the cycle after this. </span></div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid17"><br>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid18"><span
class="author-g-wa3pw3yie0s7psen">So, effectively what we are
asking for you to do now - is to treat this as an early test for
the XX cycle. </span></div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid19"><br>
</div>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid21"><span
class="author-g-wa3pw3yie0s7psen">While we would hate to do it,
if reported tests on the trackers is really low we would have no
real option left but to not mark as ready on the tracker -
marking as ready is the first stage in releasing the image.
Without that release doesn't happen.</span></div>
<br>
regards<br>
<br>
[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker">http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker</a><br>
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