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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Make that 29 days!

Regards,

Phill.

On 29 April 2012 16:38, Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hiyas QA,
>
> Just a quick heads up. Today i will altering all the lubuntu-qa accounts
> to lapse 10 days later. Don't think I'm picking on you, this is simply
> routine house work so as not to have 500 idle members of a group (not that
> we have). It's only a click to renew :)
>
> The words 'Thank-you' are sadly insufficient for conveying the difference
> you have made. I do hope that, amongst the 'pulling the hair out' and 'head
> butting the wall' moments that you've all had a few laughs on the way.
>
> So, what did we achieve?
>
> Installable and working releases on more platfroms than we thought was
> possible. I can also say that were it not for the lubuntu PPC testers,
> there was a high probability that there would not have been a PPC release
> anywhere. Lubuntu is commited to 'older' kit. For such a niche market,
> without the testers; it simply would not have happened. For older chipsets
> on the intel / amd range, the non-pae kernel as default for i686 - if it
> were not for voices raised, that would not have happened (It did take
> Xubuntu to say that was what they wished). For someone going via our
> minimal core install, tweaking it for what they put on we never would have
> known that a PII with 64MB of RAM is a bit sluggish, but usuable (32MB RAM
> is toooooo slow).
>
> For 12.10?
> He he, mentioned a while ago was if Lubuntu would dip its toes into the
> ARM chipset. The eternal, and going problem is that Lubuntu, like all
> teams, does not have enough devs. So, go and kidnap one, keep him / her
> locked in the cellar and feed them human sacrifices if this works :D
> Oh, yeah, I nearly forgot, we still need someone who knows how to
> 'back-port' as our 10.04 is miles out of date and it was the last one that
> would on the sub i386 chipsets.
>
> A new 'application' testing set of QA is due for 12.10, hopefully we'll
> have full details shortly after UDS-Q. From what I understand (and Nicholas
> is welcome to correct me), we will write up tests that are lubuntu specific
> (or, none 'core') for what we include so that thier basic functionality can
> be tested.
>
> On-Line Virtual Machines for testing. Go play on the Virtual Machine, go
> break it, report the bug & then reset it. I think they will be useful at
> least through the alpha's and into beta1. Obviously if the devs want to try
> something 'crazy' they will remain there all the way through as thier ISO
> images will be zsynced up and then available for a secondary down load site
> come the release date.
>
> Well, here's to " Quantal Quetzal" - No doubt Lance will have a different
> nick for it... I came up with "Quantum Quail" before our S.A.B.D.F.L. made
> his decree :)
>
> Things to think about before we all start again!
>
> It is a great honour to be your admin guy,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phill.
>
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