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The QA team has regular weekly meetings Wednesdays at 16.00/19.00 UTC on #ubuntu-meeting. Feel free to join in!

Next meeting

Agenda - 2008-01-04

• Names and subdomains for the qapoll websites. (nand)
• QA server status - feasible to use this for Alpha 3 testing?
• Wiki page restructuring update

• Automated testing wiki pages (heno) - I've started a landing page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Automation where we should track the project.

• Kernel bug day - Shall we reschedule it?

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20071219

• LP bug reporting guidelines - how do we take advantage of this feature? https://help.launchpad.net/BugReportingGuidelines What additional features would be useful? (more granularity)

Previous meetings

Agenda - 2007-12-19

• Testing wiki cleanup day - suggestion from stgraber to follow up on Davmor2's new testing page

• qa-hardy-list discussion - Discuss the [https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=qa-hardy-list current list]. What should we add or remove? How well are the different topics (desktop, server, kubuntu, kernel, xorg, installer, etc.) represented?

• Alpha 2 image testing - As with Alpha 1, this is a freeze-free release
• Bug Day - no package analysis - bdmurray
• Next meeting - unlikely to be Dec. 26. Do want Jan 2nd, or move to 4th perhaps?

• [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-qa/2007-December/000029.html Notes]

Agenda - 2007-12-12

• Cool QA stuff happening:

  • The [:UbuntuBugDay/20071205:no-package bug-day] was a smash hit, moving [http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/testing_graphs/plots/nopackage-month-open.png ~800 bugs] from their no-package, New state

  • Dapper point release fix verification nearly complete

  • [http://people.ubuntu.com/~liw/lintian/ Lintian] and [http://people.ubuntu.com/~liw/piuparts/ piuparts] test results are live.

  • Lars attends [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianQAExtremadura2007 Debian QA meeting] to build cross-project QA collaboration

  • Weekly tracking of [http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/hardy-buglist.html kernel target bugs] for hardy starts

  • Early [http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/weatherreport/ prototype] of developer-weather report live

  • Steady growth in community participation in bug triage, esp. on the desktop team

  • Work continues on the [https://wiki.stgraber.org/UbuntuQA QA tracking sites], with a major update scheduled for January (Test website now opened)

  • Canonical posts [http://www.ubuntu.com/employment#UMQAE job opening for mobile QA engineer]

• Spec status: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs

• QA hardy bug list - we are preparing a list of long-standing and 'popular' bugs for hardy which we will present to the development community shortly

Agenda - 2007-12-05

• Dapper verification testing - does the QA team have any oustanding tests here?
• No-package bug-day

• Selecting the next bug day theme - [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/BugDayFocus candidates]

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/TODO - any takers for these?

• UDS activity report posted here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Boston/Proceedings

• Moving kernel bugs to the 'linux' package - how is that going; how can others help?

Agenda - 2007-11-28

• UDS activity report - I (heno) should write a summary of the QA sessions at UDS (but I wasn't there) Could those who were please send me 2-3 lines on the main results in QA from UDS?

• Status of https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/+nominations - heno

• Specs approved for Hardy: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs

• Alpha 1 ISO testing - There is no freeze this time, but the key images should get a basic sanity test (basically check that they boot)

• [https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-qa/2007-November/000017.html Notes]

Agenda - 2007-11-14

• Spec status - Lots of good discussions were held at UDS and good ideas were presented. These should now be formally integrated into the [:QATeam/Specs:specs]

• Feedback on [:QATeam/HardySchedule:Hardy QA schedule]

• Gutsy bug triage, looking for SRU candidtes

• Managing [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/+nominations Gutsy] and [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/dapper/+nominations Dapper] SRU nominees - the responsibility for sorting and evaluating these should be shared between the QA and release teams

• QA team weekly meeting times

Agenda - 2007-10-24

• post-release bug status - what's the damage?
• mobile platform test cases
• testing plans for hardy
• bug management plans for hardy
• new resources (every week)

Agenda - 2007-10-03

• [:QATeam/Meetings/OsloSprint:Report] from the testing mini-sprint in Oslo

• Selecting topics for UDS
• Release Candidate next week - where are we on bugs?
• QA team wiki pages
  • Should this one be merged with UbuntuQA?
  • How can we make the connections between the teams less confusing?
• Agree upon a method for communicating high profile or well known bug reports amongst each other. It should be something that developers can add bug reports that they are working on too.
  • The bugsquad mailing list might be a good idea so other triagers see it to, the mailing list reports could then be added to a wiki page or vice versa

• ["/OsloSprint"]

• ["/WeeklyMeeting20071003"]