Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] [Attention] Testing Ubuntu GNOME and QA Team Activities

[Tim <darkxst@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 30/06/14 01:16, Erick Brunzell wrote:
> Hi Ali,
>
> On 06/29/2014 08:31 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Now that Ubuntu GNOME Utopic Unicorn Alpha 1 was released [1], we are back to test the daily builds [2].
>>
>> Whether you're NEW to testing or not, kindly help yourself and read:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/Testing
>>
>> If you have any Q, kindly ask :)
>>
>> As for Ubuntu GNOME QA Team [3] Activities, yet again, this team is suffering from a serious issue that is 'Internal Communications' :)
>>
>> It is either that everything is fine so that no communications at all between the members of that team OR no one is doing anything. Either
>> way, something is wrong and must be addressed.
>>
>> I do hope you have seen this:
>> http://ubuntugnome.org/acting-team-leader/
>>
>> If truth to be told, I have NO idea who could help with this as I don't know who is the most active tester for Ubuntu GNOME because he/she is
>> silent and communicate less :)
>
> I think I've probably been one of the most active members of Ubuntu GNOME testing, but I want to be sure and thank all of those who have
> participated in milestone iso-testing. The more the merrier.
>
> I haven't had much to say about Utopic because it's far too early in the dev cycle to start screaming and yelling yet, but I've also been
> avidly testing Ubuntu GNOME Trusty since 14.04.1 is tentatively planned for release July 24th (less than 4 weeks from now).
>
> Since Trusty is an LTS we mustn't forget those milestones, and we should all try to review any and all outstanding Trusty bugs and try to
> address them as best we can. 
current list of bugs being tracked for 14.04.1 is at:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+milestone/trusty.1
If anything is missing from that list, send through the bug numbers and will add them.
> Of course that means new release notes too, mostly a copy-n-paste, but maybe someone with more experience can give this a look:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1307776
>
> I suspect an issue related to X, probably effecting Intel i915 graphics, so it would be helpful if someone besides John could help with that.
> Maybe help search cross-stream and see if any other flavors are effected? Maybe it has nothing to do with 'gdm'?
That is probably a hardware specific bug in the intel KMS driver, could be a buggy bios or some such.
>
> Regarding the need for an "acting" QA Team Leader I'm hesitant to volunteer for health reasons:
>
> (1) I can't communicate via IRC chat. I suffered quite extensive neurological damage in late 2001 due to meningo-encephalitis which effects my
> vision, hearing, and the speed with which I'm able to process communications in general.
>
> (2) I was hospitalized April 22nd because my atrial fibrillation got totally out of control, then hospitalized again May 22nd with a mild
> stroke, but I'm slowly getting back up-to-speed.
>
>>
>> While I do appreciate ALL the efforts you have put so far, we as a team need to communicate between each other and therefore, we do have a
>> team on Launchpad and a Mailing List [4] :)
>>
>>
>> You see, many changes are happening within Ubuntu GNOME community and if I have to, I'm ready to do a full re-structure to our Sub-Teams [5]
>> if I really have to. Some Sub-Teams are NOT working as a team at all. This is not good nor helpful.
>>
>> I hope you see my point here. We must work as a team, period.
>> *
>> *
>> *That said, members of Ubuntu GNOME QA Team are kindly required to 'Reply' this email so that I prepare a list of those who are active and
>> call them for a meeting.*
>>
>> What I have in mind right now is to do a strict exception that membership of Ubuntu GNOME QA Team will no longer be 90 days but rather 30 days.
>
> Whatever you and Tim decide is OK with me.
>
>>
>> For more details, please read:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/Community
>>
>> and
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/SubTeams#What_is_a_Sub-Team
>>
>> Kindly treat this email as a very important and I'm waiting for your replies.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> [1] - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/14.10/alpha-1/
>>
>> [2] - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/daily-live/current
>>
>> [3] - https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnome-qa <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntugnome-qa>
>>
>> [4] - ubuntugnome-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ubuntugnome-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> [5] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/SubTeams
>>
>> P.S.
>> Red Color and Bold Text is not shouting, just kind of highlight.
>>
>> -- 
>> Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us."
>> Best Regards,
>> amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad>
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>>
>>
>
> Lance
>
>