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if this works :D Oh, yeah, I nearly forgot, we still need someone who knows how to 'back-port' as our 10.04 is miles out of date and it was the last one that would on the sub i386 chipsets.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. -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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