I've been trying to get my calendar straightened out and right off the bat I 
notice a few potential problems. I assume that our next cadence week for 
Lubuntu Quantal is 

 
  
  
  
  
  
  
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   August 20th thru August 24th but if things go as I've grown used to over the 
past few years Precise 12.04.1 iso/upgrade testing would also run from 

 
  
  
  
  
  
  
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   August 20th thru August 23rd.

I realize that Lubuntu does not have a 12.04.1 point release but it's been my 
experience that LTS point releases do get much less attention from us testers 
:^( 

This time there are a few bugs that I hope to see addressed by the devs (even 
if it's via a "won't fix" or just a mention in the release notes) so I tend to 
think I need to make 12.04.1 testing a priority.

Beyond the week of August 20th I'd assume that cadence testing week and 

 
  
  
  
  
  
  
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   Quantal Beta 1 actually both fall in the week of #toc, .toc, .mw-warning { 
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so that should be fine. I'm guessing that actual
 iso/upgrade testing simply takes precedence over cadence if they fall in the 
same week.

Beyond that I'm a bit confused. I'd sort of expect cadence testing from 

 
  
  
  
  
  
  
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   September 17th thru the 21st, but then actual iso/upgrade testing for 
Quantal Beta 2 falls the week of the 24th. So we'd test images two weeks right 
in a row?

If we then went two weeks after Beta 2 with another round of cadence testing 
we'd end up with a similar situation; cadence testing the week of October 8th 
and then Quantal final testing the week of October 15th?

That's a whole lot of testing ;^)

As I've tried to point out before there are actually some flaws in our test 
cases regarding the live images. We offer only "entire disc", "auto-resize", 
and "manual partitioning" but ubiquity actually offers additional options, and 
to be completely thorough it's important to complete some tests with two 
internal drives connected.

It all gets quite complicated and I'd prefer using an open forum thread to 
discuss the options but two options that are often overlooked are "using 
largest free space" and "upgrade via live CD".

When you factor in the fact that it's not uncommon to have 2, 3, or even 4 
re-spins in a 24 hour period during actual iso testing those of us who still 
use actual CD's or DVD's can burn through several dollars worth of discs during 
each iso-testing cycle if we're testing both live and alternate images and 
testing multiple flavors ;^)

I'd change to using only flash drives/live USB but one of my test machines has 
a funky BIOS that recognizes all flash drives as hard drives on boot so I have 
to enter BIOS and edit the hard drive boot order. That would be OK but then the 
flash drive sometimes shows up as /dev/sda which totally muddies the water as 
far as testing grub and ubiquity :^(

I'm just not convinced that testing every two weeks is a sane approach :^(

Lance

  
 


  
  
 


  
  
 


  
 

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