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[Charlie Kravetz <charlie-tca@xxxxxxxxxx>]

WARNING:  This is the RC! It is not supposed to break now.

On 2010-04-22, we are scheduled to release the Lucid Lynx Release
Candidate (RC) image. That gives us a great opportunity! We should get
to test the images starting on 2010-04-5. To insure this is the best
release possible, and to catch as many bugs as possible early in the
release cycle, we should
get as many tests as we can. Please read
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Testing/TestingInfo .

Since this is a new long term release, we need to insure the upgrade
from both Xubuntu 8.04 and Xubuntu 9.10 are working well. It is a long
test to run, since for many of us, it requires installing those images,
applying all updates, then upgrading the installation to Lucid.

For some of us, at this time, the desktop cd is slow to start. On my P4,
1.5GHz cpu, with 1GB RAM, for example, it takes up to 8 minutes to get
the installer screen to show up. In a VirtualBox machine, this same
startup takes less than 1 minute. This is a bug in plymouth, and is
reported. Please have patience when testing these images.

Images for testing are available at:
http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/daily-live/current/
http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/daily/current/

A very good format for reporting bugs is at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Bug-Report-Layout

At least 5 reports for each test listed is highly desired. This will
help greatly to insure the Xubuntu Lucid release is the best yet. The
more tests done at this time, the higher the quality of the final
version, since the developers will have time to resolve issues found. 5
reports is very easy to do, given the number of us in the Xubuntu
Testing Team. Let's see how many bugs we can find before the release.

If you use a virtual machine for testing, please provide information
about it in the comments area of the testing tracker at
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/build/xubuntu/all.

A point to keep in mind for all the Xubuntu Testing Team members, the
iso images sometimes must be rebuilt due to a bug found by a tester. If
you reported results, and when you go to check later they are missing,
the image may have changed and needs to be tested again.

Let us all make Lucid Lynx ROCK!

I am available on irc.freenode.net, #xubuntu and #ubuntu-testing, for
any questions. My IRC nick is charlie-tca.
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