Fellow Ubuntu Triagers!

This week's HugDay target is *drum roll please* Compiz!

Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers!
* 07th May, 2009
* http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20090507

Can't stress it enough: everyone can help!

Have some time? Triage boogz! I won't be upset if you get a headstart~ ;)
Have a blog? Blog about Hugday!
Have some screen space? Open #ubuntu-bugs and keep an eye out for
newcomers in need.
Have minions? Teach THEM to triage for you! :)

Wanna be famous? Is easy! remember to use 5-A-day so if you do a good
work your name could be listed at the top 5-A-Day Contributors in the
Ubuntu Hall of Fame page!

Make a difference; we will be in #ubuntu-bugs (FreeNode) all day and
night, and will be ready to answer your questions about how to help.

If you're new to all this, head to
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs

Fellow Ubuntu Triagers!

This week's HugDay target is *drum roll please* new bugs since Jaunty release!

Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers!
* 30th April, 2009
* http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20090430

Can't stress it enough: everyone can help!

Have some time? Triage boogz! I won't be upset if you get a headstart~ ;)
Have a blog? Blog about Hugday!
Have some screen space? Open #ubuntu-bugs and keep an eye out for
newcomers in need.
Have minions? Teach THEM to triage for you! :)

Wanna be famous? Is easy! remember to use 5-A-day so if you do a good
work your name could be listed at the top 5-A-Day Contributors in the
Ubuntu Hall of Fame page!

Make a difference; we will be in #ubuntu-bugs (FreeNode) all day and
night, and will be ready to answer your questions about how to help.

If you're new to all this, head to
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs

The next testing day will be on Monday 13/04/2009.

On this test day we will be smoke testing any *buntu desktop of your choice.

The goals on the day will be to test the installer and applications on the CD as well as those you download from repositories and use regularly.

We will be looking for any regressions or breakages in these packages and reporting faults to launchpad.

Join us on #ubuntu-testing on the freenode network or click HERE to find out more and get involved.

Fellow Ubuntu Triagers!

This week's HugDay target is *drum roll please* bugs with patches!
* #486 New bugs with patches that need a review

Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers!
* 9th of April, 2009
* http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20090409

Can't stress it enough: everyone can help!

Have some time? Triage boogz! I won't be upset if you get a headstart~ ;)
Have a blog? Blog about Hugday!
Have some screen space? Open #ubuntu-bugs and keep an eye out for
newcomers in need.
Have minions? Teach THEM to triage for you! :)

Wanna be famous? Is easy! remember to use 5-A-day so if you do a good
work your name could be listed at the top 5-A-Day Contributors in the
Ubuntu Hall of Fame page!

Make a difference; we will be in #ubuntu-bugs (FreeNode) all day and
night, and will be ready to answer your questions about how to help.

If you're new to all this, head to
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs

Checkbox 0.7.1 has now been uploaded to Jaunty (thanks Daniel!). One of the bugfixes was a set of contributed patches for translations, which drew our attention to the fact that our translations in Ubuntu have always lagged behind.

With that in mind we'd love it we could get some help with the translations for the 0.7.1 release.

Today we've released version 0.7.1 of our test runner Checkbox. This is a bugfix release to tackle a couple of major bugs that people have been encountering while upgrading to Jaunty or trying to run Checkbox in Jaunty.

This week's HugDay target is *drum roll please* xorg-server and xserver-xorg-video-intel!
* 49 New bugs need a hug.
* 103 Incomplete bugs need a status check.
* 81 Confirmed bugs need a review.
* 16 Bugs with patches that need to be reviewed.

Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers!
* April 02 2009
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20090402

Can't stress it enough: everyone can help!

Have some time? Triage boogz! I won't be upset if you get a headstart~ ;)
Have a blog? Blog about Hugday!
Have some screen space? Open #ubuntu-bugs and keep an eye out for
newcomers in need.
Have minions? Teach THEM to triage for you! :)

Wanna be famous? Is easy! remember to use 5-A-day so if you do a good
work your name could be listed at the top 5-A-Day Contributors in the
Ubuntu Hall of Fame page!

Make a difference; we will be in #ubuntu-bugs (FreeNode) all day and
night, and will be ready to answer your questions about how to help.

If you're new to all this, head to
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs

Observing the current trends and workload, we feel that there is a need for more idea reviewers. Therefore, we are looking for Brainstorm users who would be willing to volunteer for the same.

Brainstorm idea reviewers' group is a part of the Ubuntu Brainstorm Moderator team. They are responsible for performing an initial screening of ideas inside the Idea Sandbox before they are sent to the Popular Ideas section. Idea Reviewers participate in all activities on the team mailing list and at our IRC channel #ubuntu-brainstorm (freenode).

Mainly, you would need to check whether an idea follows the posting guidelines, it isn't a bug or a packaging request, and that it hasn't been posted before. You would be having a number of moderator tools to help you with the job. You can find more guidelines at the wiki page.

Drop in a mail at our mailing list: brainstorm-moderators [AT] lists.ubuntu.com

Make sure you include your Brainstorm username so that we can take a quick look at your activity so far. The team would be mainly looking for users who know how brainstorm works and how things are done (you can always choose to have a mentor who can help you with everything). Once the team is happy, you will be assimilated.
Resistance is futile.

We are pleased to announce the next Ubuntu Testing Day, that will be next Monday, March 30th.

The Ubuntu Testing day is a special day where the Ubuntu Community comes together with a shared goal of testing a specific set of ISO images (Alpha, Beta, RC, Gold or Point releases), a specific feature or some bugs needing verification. Taking the idea from the Ubuntu Bug Day, we want to apply the same concepts to ISO testing.

Which is the goal for this testing day?
We will be testing the two main installers in Ubuntu: debian-installer (the installer featured in alternate images) and ubiquity (the installer featured in Live CDs). We are going to test Ubuntu Jaunty Beta ISOs. You can have a list of the available ISOs to test at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta

What we are looking for in this new Testing Day is not only trying to install Jaunty Beta in your system using a "Next"->"Next"->"Next" approach. We are looking for finding those corner cases that normally does not get tested, in order to find new bugs.

Examples of this could be: installing in a slave disk, installing in a system with multiple partitions (or any other advanced partition schema), starting the Live CD in Russian and then install in Japanese, ... Your imagination is the limit :-)

Who can join the Testing Day?
Everyone. You don't need to be a developer. You don't need to know how to code. Everyone is welcome. If you don't know how to help, then just stop on by and we'll explain everything to you. In fact, one of the objectives of the Testing Day is to help people willing to start testing Ubuntu to make it better.

Where to join the Testing Day?
Come to #ubuntu-testing on freenode IRC. We will be there day and night resolving your testing questions you might have.
Normal testing activity takes place in #ubuntu-testing at other times also.
For this particular Testing Day, you can ping cjwatson to ask for help. He will be happy to help.

Here are the minutes of the meeting. IRC logs can also be found at http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2009/03/25/%23ubuntu-meeting.html

It's Beta Time

The meeting started off agenda talking about how pre-beta testing was going. So far, so good, apparently. No blocker bugs found and coverage is also good.

There are some tests still to be completed. If you want to help, you can get a list at http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/build/all/all.

UbuntuBugDay Highlights

Last Thursday we celebrated the cups package hug day.

Till Kamppeter and Martin Pitt were very helpful during the event answering questions regarding the reports and, from the Bugsquad side, paulduf, jgoguen, bigal50, sectech and thekorn made a great work squashing those bugs. The QA Team thank you all!

New Bug Control Members

Joel Goguen was approved as a Bug Control member! He is interested in desktop applications like Thunderbird, OpenOffice, and Pidgin.

Private crash report triage

Steve Beattie pointed out that system-config-printer and network-manager's buglists, just as examples, have 30-40 private apport bugs for each package. Some of them relatively old.

So after a quick discussion it was decided to incorporate "private bugs" as a theme for a Bugday. Pedro will add this to the Planning

Plans for triaging the Beta bugs next week

After the Beta the number of "New" bugs is much higher than Alpha milestones. We need to make an effort to triage those bugs.
Brian will prepare some reports to make the task easier and a target list.

And that's more or less all folks. Next QA Team meeting will be, as usual, next Wednesday, 1st April (not joking...) 17UTC at #ubuntu-meeting. Come and join us and help making Ubuntu better!