New joiner introduction

2013-01-31 Thread Олександр Гаврилюк
Hello Team, Glad to join the community! My name is Oleksandr and I come from Ukraine I have worked as a technical writer and manual test engineer for some time. For a little more that a year, I have been involved into automated testing and would love to move one with it. Within the Ubuntu

Re: New joiner introduction

2013-01-31 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Oleksander, welcome aboard! Since you spoke about automated testing, here's some things that might be of interest to you right now: Tomorrow, we're hosting a hackfest where you can learn about autopilot (an automated testing framework we use) and help contribute testcases. Details are here:

Updating daily builds on a daily basis.

2013-01-31 Thread John Kim
Hello ubuntu-qa, I'm John Kim. Yesterday, I installed Ubuntu 13.04 Raring daily build from the cdimage.ubuntu.com site on my laptop, and I'm glad to say it works really great.  (It wasn't the same for my desktop, however :[ ) To ensure that my computer is completely up-to-date with the daily

Re: Updating daily builds on a daily basis.

2013-01-31 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:57 AM, John Kim johnkim.ubu...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking just doing: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade at around noon in my timezone daily is the only sequence. Can I be missing something? I have been doing this since 11.10, staying with

Re: Updating daily builds on a daily basis.

2013-01-31 Thread John Kim
Sanjeev Gutpa,  So do you only run those two commands at different times throughout the day? Are there any other commands to be aware of? How can I ensure that by running those two commands, I get the daily build from the uk.archive.ubuntu.com archive? Because by default, mine is set to

Re: Updating daily builds on a daily basis.

2013-01-31 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
John, I update on occasion - no obsession about updating everyday or anything like that. When I do update, the important thing is to make sure the upgrade will go cleanly. Don't update if it's going to remove important packages, or do something undesirable. This is quite a rare occurrence (I

Re: Updating daily builds on a daily basis.

2013-01-31 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
Fabio, I think you win for the least keystrokes needed! :-) On 01/31/2013 03:02 PM, Fabio Marconi wrote: On 31/01/2013 18:57, John Kim wrote: Hello ubuntu-qa, I'm John Kim. Yesterday, I installed Ubuntu 13.04 Raring daily build from the cdimage.ubuntu.com site on my laptop, and I'm glad to

possible apport bug

2013-01-31 Thread Jackson Doak
it seems apport always reports UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install), could someone confirm otherwise. i had had my install for two months and got that result. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Re-thinking Manual Testing

2013-01-31 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi, Puts hand up... when I initiated the classroom sessions requiring people to Have an ISO and Have KVM / VBox / TestDrive installed, the classroom team balked. They stated that we were taking too much for granted on what knowledge a new comer would have. I have gone to length to re-edit that

Re: possible apport bug

2013-01-31 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Brian Murray br...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 11:54:40AM +1100, Jackson Doak wrote: it seems apport always reports UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install), could someone confirm otherwise. i had had my install for two

Re: possible apport bug

2013-01-31 Thread Brian Murray
On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 10:48:23AM +0800, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Brian Murray br...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 11:54:40AM +1100, Jackson Doak wrote: it seems apport always reports UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh

Re: Updating daily builds on a daily basis.

2013-01-31 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi Sanjeev, you are indeed, old fashioned. Phil, I do not need a million Ubuntu users telling me that, I can get _that_ comment at home, for free :-) And multiple times a day. The builds for testing are done on a