Make that 29 days! Regards,
Phill. On 29 April 2012 16:38, Phill Whiteside <[email protected]> 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 'back-port' as our 10.04 is miles out of date and it was the last one that 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. > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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