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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!

(It's 16:00 on 2008-01-30, and every two weeks from that. It's 19:00 on 2008-02-06 and every two weeks from that. For those observing the European / ISO rules for week numbering, in 2008 the meeting is at 16 on odd-numbered weeks and at 21 on even-numbered weeks.)

Next meeting

Agenda - 2008-04-09

• ISO smoke testing - heno
• Taking Brainstorm ideas to UDS - heno, jcastro

Previous meetings

Agenda - 2008-04-02

• New team member introduction: Chris Gregan, Mobile QA
• Upstreaming bugs; wiki guides and bugdays - jcastro, qense and bdmurray
• Test plan review for RC/Final - heno, davmor2

Agenda - 2008-03-26

Time: 16:00 UTC

• QA-Website frontpage (nand and stgraber)
• RC and final testing preparations
• Beta bugs impact

Agenda - 2008-03-12

• Beta testing preparations

• [:Testing:Testing wiki pages] refreshed - please review

Agenda - 2008-03-05

• Kernel bug migration update (bug day tomorrow)
• Past week's bug day summary: g-s-t and HAL
• Desktop testing KVM images - instructions for download and use - liw
• Alpha 6 ISO testing
• Brainstorm status - fixing bugs, writing use documentation, seeking dev and moderator participation

Agenda - 2008-02-27

• Evaluation of the current bug day arrangement.
  • It seems to be going extremely well, with solid community participation and good impact on the numbers. In London we decided to run two bug days each week for a month or two approaching release. Should we make this a permanent arrangement? -- heno

• Kernel bug migration - are we blocked on [https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-launchpad-bugs/+bug/193853 193853]? Can we ask LP admins to do this?

• QA-poll pre-launch coordination

Agenda - 2008-02-20

• qa-hardy-list promotion
• QA poll site beta testing

• Kernel bug list migration. see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/KernelBugMigration

• malone buglist - tagging these so they are viewable in Launchpad. see: http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/malone-buglist.html

• yesterday's bugs formatting discussion draft at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewBugs/20080219

Agenda - 2008-02-13

• Splitting [http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/qa-hardy-list-archive/sort-by-package/current-buglist.html hardy qa bug list] into teams

  • Progress is still slow on these bugs; making a separate list for each dev team would allow us to follow it up more closely

• Revising the [https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug bug hint page] to point at [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs ReportingBugs]. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/LpGuideText

• Data gathering for [:Bugs/PathsToFile:Bugs/PathsToFile] -- log analysis and survey

Agenda - 2008-02-06

• SRU verification testing (Riddell asked about 133944, 184149 and 173890)
• Bug days this week: 'no package' and Evolution

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream Upstream bug tracker wiki pages] (help wanted)

• [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day 5-A-Day] initiative

• QAPoll testing

Agenda - 2008-01-30

• London sprint QA highlights
• Nautilus bug day
• Alpha 4 testing
• QA-Poll beta

Agenda - 2008-01-16

• QA Today: OpenOffice bug day and test automation development

• Cleanup and presentation of qa-hardy-list

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

• http://qa.ubuntu.com frontpage, what do you want on it ? (stgraber, will be late so please keep this item for the end)

Agenda - 2008-01-09

• Things happening today: Kernel bug day and alpha 3 testing

• Following up on the [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=qa-hardy-list target bug list] with other teams

• Desktop testing status and a quick 'getting started with dogtail' intro

Agenda - 2008-01-04

• QAPoll module status. Names and subdomains to be chosen 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)

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"]