Nicolas, I cannot find any any milestone for vivid alpha in http://laptop.qa.ubuntu.com/, is this gonna be added in the next days ?
-- Gabriel. On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Nicholas Skaggs < [email protected]> wrote: > Gaberial, downloading and running the current image of vivid is an > excellent way to avoid the bug in the future by letting developers know > about it know, rather than later. > > Check out: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/DevelopmentSetup > > and > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Roles/Tester > > Nicholas > > > On 01/22/2015 04:21 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi Damir, Thanks for you quick response ! >> >> Yes, I'm aware of the huge diversity of hardware that exist in the market >> and I'm aware of the heroic effort needed to make QA on all this devices >> too. I'm not sure how to run this tests, I'll dive in the QA wiki to try >> to >> understand the QA workflow. I have to find a way to test a release >> candidate without adding any PPA since I use my laptop to working every >> day >> and I want to keep my ubuntu as stable as possible. I guess that I should >> run this test booting a live image maybe. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Gabriel. >> >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Damir B <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Gabriel, >>> >>> Believe you me, there is definitely hardware testing going on for each >>> and >>> every release of Ubuntu, include updates to packages related to hardware >>> components like GPU. >>> >>> The problem is, as I am sure you are aware, the hardware market is very >>> open.....Tons and tons of combinations of laptops (makes/models) running >>> even more varied combinations of GPUs. In your case, it seems an update >>> to >>> Xorg has slowed down the performance of Ubuntu overall on your laptop >>> because the update was maybe not optimized for your specific combination >>> of >>> hardware. How can that be prevented in the future? Well, most of us who >>> do >>> "hardware related testing" do so with the hardware that we personally own >>> and use. This means in your case, nobody will the same make/model as you >>> tested the performance of Xorg, or maybe they did but didn't report an >>> issue. >>> >>> To prevent in the future, you could subscribe to an unstable PPA for Xorg >>> and report issues with your specific hardware to the developers BEFORE >>> they >>> release it publicly through a stable PPA or in this case, probably an >>> official Ubuntu repo. >>> >>> Hope you see how this sort of thing occurs and how you can help to >>> prevent >>> similar issues in the future, >>> >>> Damir >>> >>> >>> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:41:18 -0300 >>>> Subject: Hardware related test cases. >>>> From: [email protected] >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> >>>> Hello QA team, >>>> >>>> Is there any way to help to avoid this kind of bugs popup in every >>>> distribution upgrade ? >>>> >>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1386721 >>>> >>>> Is there any test cases related to hardware performance, video >>>> >>> performance >>> >>>> specifically . Bugs like this has the potential to make a laptop >>>> unusable >>>> after the dist upgrade. >>>> >>>> I'd like to help trying to avoid this kind of bugs in future releases, >>>> >>>> Any guidance is welcome :-) >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Gabriel. >>>> -- >>>> Ubuntu-quality mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >>>> >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality >>> >>> >> >> > -- Gabriel. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
