[xubuntu-users] Xubuntu Testing Update - Plans for testing Feisty Herd 6

[Adam Miller]

Jim ... again, my hat is off to you and your efforts. Deepest of gratitude
to everything you have done and continue to do for our great distribution.

-Adam

On 3/26/07, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> With last week's release of the Xubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Beta (yeah!!), we
> have a short period of time before our next cycle of heavy testing begins.
> That means that until we announce the Herd 6 image candidates, you can
> either file regular bug reports against the nightly images, or take a break
> from testing ISOs and visit cuteoverload.com.  :)
>
> That being said, we've got some interesting things planned for ISO testing
> of the upcoming releases.  The most important item involves assigning
> individuals to specific ISO test cases.
>
> == ISO TEST CASES ==
> In the past months, we've asked for testers to test Xubuntu nightly
> releases, and to report their test results.  Simple enough.  While this has
> been successful in terms of getting the community interested and involved,
> we thought we could do more to (1) make it easier for testers to know what
> to test, and (2) ensure adequate coverage for the different kinds of tests.
>
>
> With that in mind, I've put up a page that lists the specific kind of
> tests that you can sign up for.  I'm requesting that testers sign up for one
> primary test, and a secondary test.  If you'd like, you can sign up for more
> than one secondary test, but this is not required.  This approach should
> help you to know what you need to do, and will also help us to make sure
> that Xubuntu is tested very thoroughly.
>
> The wiki page is located here<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Community/Xubuntu>,
> but to sign yourself up for a specific test, I'm asking that people email me
> at xubuntu.iso at gmail.com with their testing requests (see the wiki page
> for a bit more detail).  I will then write back to you, and confirm your
> testing assignment(s).  I'm doing it this way so that we don't get 20 people
> signed up to test manual partitioning on an i386 Live CD, and no one signed
> up to test an AMD64 install.  If you can't perform the test that you get
> assigned, please just let me know, and we'll figure something out.
>
>
> == UBUNTU "BURN DAY" ==
> The other cool thing that we have in mind isn't fully planned-out yet, but
> we're excited about it.  In short, we're planning an Ubuntu "Burn Day**,"
> which will be much like an Ubuntu "Hug Day," but instead of learning how to
> triage and report bugs, we're going to burn CDs and test ISOs.  :)  We'll
> have people around on #ubuntu-iso to answer test questions, and we're also
> looking at ways to have friendly competitions amongst u/ku/edu/xu/*buntu
> testing teams  :)  (Xubuntu FTW!!).  More details to follow in the coming
> week or so . . .
>
> Until then, thanks again for your support, :-)
>
> Jim
>
> ** Unless you have a defective laptop battery, we won't actually be
> setting anything on fire during our Ubuntu "Burn Day."  In fact, the
> Ubuntu-ISO team recommends having a working smoke detector and fire
> extinguisher available at all times.
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-iso-tests>
>
>
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