Anyone can feel free to contact me anytime via the team or by PM. This is a quite diverse group of folks and we share one common goal - to keep Lubuntu alive and keep making it better.
the sex, sexuality, religion. physical handicaps, age, race / creed etc. of people is of little interest to me. It took me nearly two years to be finally
'prodded' by other team members to find out if our head of dev was a 'he' or a 'she'. It really does not matter to me, but I know it does to some; to this end there is a womens section (And they do keep us males under tight controll :D ). Please ask if you'd like details for that group.
As you may have read on the mailing list, one of the testing guys lost his internet connection at a bad time. As you are also interested in i386 testing and he is both a seasoned tester and an all round nice person I've included him in my reply of this email to him and cc'd it to our quality group.
Never be afraid to ask questions, there are no dumb questions, only that we have not made the wiki area more easily navigated for you to easily find answers to them. Please do let us know when you can not easily find an answer.
I repeat, thank-you for taking the time to test, my ' internal screaming' and howling to a New Moon is nothing new
I (she, not he) think I have taken care of what you asked, but
possibly not.
- Aere
On 03/14/2013 03:06 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
Hi Aere,
the quiet scream you just heard was from me as I could not
approve all the i386 ISO's due to lack of testing being
reported Thanks for taking the time to test, but could I
ask that you do log your results on the ISO Tracker.
Testing and reporting is pretty straight forward... Please
have a read of this link [1]. A lot of this has now been copied
over as it affects all flavours [2].
If you have any questions on testing, please feel more than
free to ask on the lubuntu-qa mailing list.
We are now back to 'Dailies' in the next 24 hours as our
Lubuntu images that were 'on hold', will re build as per the
times on [1].
For an over view as to what got tested and the results for
Beta 1, have a read of [3].
I tried out the Lubuntu 13.04 live CD (desktop i386
32-bit) on most of the machines in my test-bed, and it
worked on all of them. Some of my machines only have a
CD drive, so it's good it still fits on a CD, rather
than having to use a DVD.
I noticed a few minor things:
The Intel graphics on my Dell Dimension machine seems to
have deteriorated since 12.10, on the 13.04. There are
choppy color-gradients. I don't know if this gets
corrected when it is actually installed, or by the final
release.
When the Intel graphics is bypassed (using a Nvidia
graphics card), the graphics is attractive again.
The system profiler appears to have the same problem as
the prior release, namely, you get presented with a
bunch of empty dialog boxes which you have to dismiss.
We are now approaching a critical part
of 13.04. Starting today, 13.04 is under
Feature Freeze (No new applications, or
additional (new) features allowed and ONLY bug
fixes are allowed). Whilst there is a system
for exceptions to be allowed in for VERY good
reasons, what was built today on the Raring
Iso's is pretty much what the applications
will be in 13.04. Our Head of Dev assures me
that we got all the lubuntu ones in on time.
Normally, the ISO's were supposed to be handed
over to the Quality / Testing team on the
Friday so we have 7 days to go over them. As
per normal, this didn't happen :) What
will not happen is the date of the Beta 1
release date being changed.
So, what can you do to help? Well, all
of you good people have actually already done
lubuntu ISO testing. You did that when you
installed lubuntu. Having installed it once,
you know how to do it.
Lubuntu has many different ISO's to test,
every one of these has to be fully tested and
passed at Beta 1, Beta 2 and the final Release
Client. If we do not have the tests done and
passed, they will not be released; this will
mean that those people dependent on them will
not have a 13.04 release. You good people can
really make a difference. I've now updated the
lubuntu testing area[1] to hold as much up to
date information for you as I can.
However, I must now ask that questions for
13.04 are asked on the Lubuntu-QA mailing
list; there are simply not enough of the more
experienced testers to follow anything but
bug-reports and the mailing list. ** We do NOT
bite **. It is a 'roller coaster' ride,
especially the first time (although I still
get a buzz when release day comes). You get
the chance to say....
"Hey, I was a part of the team that made that
happen"...... Trust me, it's a good buzz even
though most of are very tired by then :)
The Lubuntu 13.04 Beta 1 testing ISO
will be created on Monday (evening - I will
update this list). If you still think you do
not have experience to test, please take the
weekend to get used to how it all works and
get your name down as a tester and ask
questions. It makes a difference even if you
only run one test out of the many needed, just
go and test... Once you have your 1st test
under your belt, you'll realise that it is
easier than installing for the first time and
I'm sure you will get that nice feeling of
'Yeah, I helped".
Thanks for taking the time to test, but could I
ask that you do log your results on the ISO Tracker. 
