The next testing day will be on Monday 23/03/2009.

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.

Here are the minutes of the meeting. IRC logs can also be found at http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2009/03/18/%23ubuntu-meeting.html

UbuntuBugDay Highlights

Last Thursday we had the Samba package bug day.
There was a good participation from the community and the server team. The QA team would like to thank the community and specially paulduf, jgoguen and bigal50 who did a lot of work during that hug day and ttx and mathiaz on the Server Team who helped a lot answering questions and promoting the Bug Day.

The next Bug Day, tomorrow, is the CUPS Hug Day.

New Bug Control Members

The QA team would like to congratulate Andres Mujica, the latest Bug Control Member. Andres is particularly interested in kernel bug reports.

We also have one application, Joel Goguen, currently under review.

Ubuntu Testing Day Highlights

In the last Testing day we were testing notify-osd. There was a good communication in the #ubuntu-testing channel during European times.

The next testing day is scheduled for next Monday, March 23rd, focusing on Smoke Testing for Jaunty Beta.

Bug Gravity

Brian created a new bug report, Bug Gravity, aimed to help to set the importance of a bug when triaging.

The report adds gravity for tags, bug privacy, then duplicates, subscribers and users affected.
It was discussed to move the report to the QA server, to be run in a daily basis.

Patch Testing Workflow

Brian documented how he tests patches that are attached to bug reports.

The document is available in the wiki at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/PatchTesting

Mozilla Landing Page

Based on Mozilla QA Landing page, we discussed that the Ubuntu QA landing page should be a more eye-candy simple land page to attract new members. Dave Murphy "volunteered" in writing it down.

Checkbox 0.7

The new Checkbox relase has been uploaded to Jaunty with new nice features and including the suspend/resume test script.

Fellow Ubuntu Triagers!

This week's HugDay target is *drum roll please* cups!
* 85 New bugs need a hug
* 27 Incomplete bugs need a status check
* 11 Confirmed bugs need a review

Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers!
* 19th of March, 2009
* http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20090319

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

We are pleased to announce the next Ubuntu Testing Day, that will be next Monday, March 16th.

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 one new cool feature in Jaunty: the new notification system. If you are running the development release of Ubuntu, or want to give it a try in a Virtual Machine, please, go on reading.

As Mark announced a while ago, the new notification system arrived in Jaunty. The new notification system comes by default in Jaunty and it gives the notifications a complete new look and feel.

Please, visit the wiki page for more information and test cases to drive your testing efforts.

This is a complete new feature in Ubuntu, so it can be fun to play with it and find bugs no one else has found before!

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 eeejay and MacSlow to ask for help. They will be happy to help.

Fellow Ubuntu Triagers!

This week's HugDay target is *drum roll please* SAMBA!
* 71 New bugs need a hug
* 35 Incomplete bugs need a status check
* 37 Confirmed bugs need a review

Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers!
* 12th of March, 2009
* http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20090312

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 09/03/2009.

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

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 to find out more and get involved.

This week's HugDay target is *drum roll please* flashplugin-nonfree!
* 78 New bugs need a hug
* 53 Incomplete bugs need a status check
* 35 Confirmed bugs need a review

Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers!
* 5th of March, 2009
* http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20090305

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/HelpingWithBugs

We are pleased to announce the next Ubuntu Testing Day, that will be next Monday, March 2nd.

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?
This time we are going to test a couple of multimedia applications to see how audio and codecs perform before the next release of Ubuntu (Jaunty Jackalope, future 9.04). As we are now in Feature Freeze, it is time to try to find important bugs as quickly as possible, to have them fixed before Beta.

We are going to test Totem Movie Player and Rhythmbox in Jaunty. Apart of the usual things, we are going to test new features, like the new Jamendo plugin or the Screenshot Gallery creation. It can be fun to play around finding bugs nobody else have found before! If you don't want to upgrade to Jaunty yet, you can install it in a virtual machine and test from there.

Please, visit the wiki page for more information and test cases to drive your testing efforts.

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.

Please, join us next Monday and help to make Ubuntu even better!

Here are the minutes of the meeting. IRC logs can also be found at http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2009/02/18/%23ubuntu-meeting.html

New Testing Day

The QA team is preparing a new testing day, this time focused on new features that are appearing in next Ubuntu release. The testing day is scheduled for next Monday, February 23rd.

The testing day wiki is already available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/UbuntuTestingDay/20090223

UbuntuBugDay highlights

Last Thursday we had the new bugs without a package hug day.
There was a good participation from the community. The QA team would like to thank the community and specially mangilimic who did a lot of work during that hug day and mrkanister for creating the page.

Some discussions went on to decide the topic for the Ubuntu Bug Day on February 26th, and finally it was decided that the next bug day will be about bugs filed with apport where the retrace failed.

Call for testing: Checkbox PPA

A new PPA for Checkbox has been published at https://launchpad.net/~checkbox-dev/+archive/ppa.
It includes some new features as the suspend/resume script. Please, use the PPA and report back any bugs.

Launchpad Greasemonkey - prefilled descriptions

Brian Murray wrote a Greasemonkey script that prefills the bug description. A screenshot is available at http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/greasemonkey/prefilled-description.png.

It was written for the OEM team, but it is going to checked in the bzr tree of launchpad-gm-scripts, just in case is useful for other teams.

We are pleased to announce the next Ubuntu Testing Day, that will be next Monday, February 23rd.

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?
This time we are going to test new features in the next Ubuntu release (Jaunty Jackalope, future 9.04). This Thursday we are reaching Feature Freeze, meaning, that all the new features, new software and all the new things that are not bug fixes should be in the archive that day.

We are going to test three new features, depending on the flavour you're testing. This is all new stuff, so it can be fun to play around finding bugs nobody else have found before! If you don't want to upgrade to Jaunty yet, you can install it in a virtual machine and test from there.

If you are running Ubuntu Desktop or Server, please, play around with Screen Profiles; if you're running Ubuntu Server you might also try to install it using the improved Guided LVM partitioner. And if you're lucky enough to own a brand new Netbook, please, help us ensuring that the new images of Ubuntu Netbook Remix work fine with your hardware.

Please, visit the wiki page for more information and test cases for the new features in Ubuntu.

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.

Please, join us next Monday and help to make Ubuntu even better!