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The Ubuntu QA team is focused on improving the general quality of the distribution. We do this through manual and automated testing, advising other teams on QA procedures and working with bug reports.

The main entry points for the QA team are the BugSquad and the [:TestingTeam:Testing Team]. The ubuntu-bugcontrol Launchpad team is a restricted team where members are admitted after an application process, and gives the ability to set the priority of bugs.

Contact

Mailing lists

• [https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-bugsquad Ubuntu bugsquad list]

• [https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-bugsquad Ubuntu QA list]

IRC channels

• #ubuntu-bugs on freenode

• #ubuntu-testing on freenone

Meetings

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

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

(the first item doesn't require discussion, but deserves a mention nonetheless!)