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smartboyhwHi!04:30
balloonsit's late04:33
smartboyhwballoons: astraljava hostile took over coordination of Ubuntu Studio Testing04:33
smartboyhwIt's 12:33 PM here04:33
balloonsyep.. we're 12 hrs difference04:34
balloonsfun eh?04:34
smartboyhwfun!04:34
balloonsyou are literally half-way round the world04:34
smartboyhwYep!04:34
balloonsnot sure you could get any farther away :-)04:34
smartboyhwI'm wondering: What do you think about Ubuntu TV04:34
balloonssmartboyhw, as in?04:35
smartboyhwAs in #ubuntu-tv!04:35
smartboyhw:)04:35
balloonsit's neat to see unity on so many platforms04:42
balloonsand have it make sense04:42
smartboyhwYep04:42
smartboyhwUbuntu Studio Meeting 1400UTC on Monday (I mean today for me, tmr or today for you)04:43
* smartboyhw waves at rbasak05:27
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smartboyhwI am back!09:58
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phillwsmartboyhw: I have to leave in just over 30 minutes. I forgot that I have an appoitment.11:09
xnoxis there a central place for existing utah runlists?11:11
* xnox wants to learn from examples11:11
xnoxreal-life examples11:11
njinLOL, ubiquity-dm rising up a garbled win8 background ( my machine love Ubuntu) http://www.flickr.com/photos/83509150@N05/7772803918/in/photostream/11:15
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smartboyhwballoons? You here?14:41
balloonshowdy14:41
smartboyhwIn a Ubuntu Studio meeting now14:41
smartboyhwChairing it14:42
smartboyhwballoons: I need to find more people to test Ubuntu Studio14:44
smartboyhwphillw: I am not free14:45
balloonssmartboyhw, I see.. I think you14:46
balloonsyou've got some time, so :-)14:46
smartboyhwThere's only me and len to help testing14:47
smartboyhwballoons: Finished meeting15:15
balloonssmartboyhw, there's an on-air meeting every monday @ this tme15:16
balloonsif your interested in watching15:16
balloonshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVd9pEB9XYGGk7fJvNlYHWw15:17
smartboyhwNOw in there15:17
smartboyhwWho can join the Hangout15:18
balloonsit gives you an insight on what the canonical platform qa team is doing15:21
balloonsit's there meeting15:21
smartboyhwOh15:21
balloonsbut they publish it publically15:21
balloonsthey have it every week on monday15:21
smartboyhwWho's in the team?15:23
smartboyhwI mean Canonical Platform QA15:23
smartboyhwBye balloons15:40
balloonsgood night smartboyhw !15:40
smartboyhwGood night!15:40
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phillwballoons: ping20:49
balloonspong20:49
phillwI have a little bug to report on qa-iso tracker.20:49
phillwwhen you de-select all flavours on the left, except the one you want to check on; when you ask for 'history', it gives you the entire suite!20:50
balloonsphillw, lol20:50
balloonsyou know what, I've always experienced that but didn't think about it20:50
phillwjust taken 5 mins to get the one for ubuntu-server as I have a willing tester for server 12.1020:51
balloonsphillw, do you know how to report it?20:51
balloonsreport and I can confirm and assign it20:51
phillwI was 'attempting' top do a manual cadence check on the release.20:51
balloonsahh phillw20:51
balloonsheh20:51
balloonsyea, you see how difficult it gets eh?20:51
phillwballoons: report it & I will confirm it. I've got to wget ubuntu-server-amd64 12.10 and install it on a VM for proxlinux.20:52
balloonsphillw, touche :-) no problem20:52
balloonsjust wanted to make sure you knew how to report20:53
balloonshttps://launchpad.net/ubuntu-qa-website/+filebug20:53
balloonsit's a link at the very bottom of the site20:53
balloonsthere's even a 'get the code' link20:53
phillwballoons:  okies, I'll have a check into it. Let me fire up KVM of the master server and get this guy sorted back out with his VM. He volunteered it back to our pool on SII, then found out the new hoster people were ass-holes and has asked if I still have a spare one. As it happens, I had not re-assigned his IPv4 to someone else.20:55
balloonsokm have at it20:55
balloonsI'll make sure it gets filled20:56
phillwsend me the link & I'll confirm it for you, not that it needs much confirming!20:56
balloonsphillw, I subscribed you21:10
balloonshttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-qa-website/+bug/103638721:10
ubot5`Ubuntu bug 1036387 in Ubuntu QA Website "Tracker doesn't allow for filtering in history view" [Wishlist,Confirmed]21:10
balloonsphillw, do you want lubuntu stats for last week?21:11
balloonsI can make them up really quick21:11
balloonslol.21:11
balloons"make them up".. lol, not forge them.. but get the results and provide them to you21:12
phillwballoons: if you could, as Lars did say that he had done the tests requested and let out a light :sigh:: when asked to repeat them21:13
balloonsphillw, I wanted to talk with him about that21:14
balloonsI didn't see his results show up21:14
balloonsand if that was a technical issue, then whoops! and I'll figure out how it happened21:14
balloonsif they really aren't there, then something happened on his end..21:15
balloonswe also need to chat about things in general. I was holding off on speaking until after the week is over21:15
balloonsbut I want to get something on the schedule this week21:16
balloonsI'm going to just put forward a couple times to everyone to talk with me and everyone else21:16
balloonsonce in my morning and once in my evening21:16
balloonsthat should hit everyone I hope21:16
balloonsbut back on my question -- do you want lubuntu results from last week?21:18
phillwTBH. for Lars, email is the best way to catch him. I cannot honestly recall the last time I chatted to him on IRC.21:18
phillwit is the same for one of the other lubuntu devs, his job is that varied he does really prefer email.21:20
phillwand as for the surgeon who is pcman, he just tries to keep up with emails and dev stuff for the project. I will ask julien before I email him.21:21
balloonshmm21:22
balloonswell, sounds like a ml thread is better than21:22
balloonsthat's fine, I'll start one of those instead. Whatever works for me. I just want to make myself availible for more than a ml thread if desired21:22
balloonsI'll mention that :)21:22
phillwballoons: I'm not sure about things on 'main' QA, but with people from so many different TZ's we have found them to be invaluble.21:23
balloonsheh.. yes, I personally like mailing lists21:24
balloonsbut you know.. I enjoy many of the "old school" communicaton I guess21:24
balloonsirc, mailing list, email21:24
phillwjust this time. do remember to cc to L-QA :P21:24
balloonslolol21:24
balloonsalready done my friend21:24
phillwAs L-QA is joined to lubuntu, and a couple have asked that they do not get every email from QA, it is a decision to be taken when you write an email. So far, so good :) I've had no complaints of either you cc'ing or me forwarding stuff.21:26
balloonsok21:27
balloonsyes, I'm overly cautious on that it seems21:28
balloonsI really don't ever want to spam communication to people, but for the most part, people are asking for me21:28
phillwif it affects Lubuntu, tell them!21:28
balloonsso.. :-)21:28
balloonsasking for more21:28
balloonslol21:28
balloonsnot me!21:28
balloons:-)21:28
balloonswow21:28
phillwballoons: how did the stat pull go for Lubuntu?21:33
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balloonsphillw, lol21:41
balloonsphillw, let me pull it21:41
balloonsI didn't realize you said yes21:41
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balloonsphillw, I'll email you the results22:08
balloonsincoming22:08
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phillwballoons: soz for delay, on my link speed setting up a new VM is not exactly fun.... http://wiki.qemu.org/KVM does cover what it can currently cover, I know too little about arm to know which of the qemu ARM ones come as default, and which need digging out.22:40
balloonsheh22:40
balloonsit's ok22:40
balloonsI trust you got the mail22:40
phillwI have chance to catch up, next step is configuring in all IP stuff the new VM needs for it be made 'live'.22:42
phillwballoons: you have a reply :P22:44
balloonsphillw, how would you want it formatted?22:44
balloonsyou can make || into ',' and have a csv more or less22:45
phillwIf the idea is for a '2 week window'. then it is imperrative that results and bugs are carried over. The devs are in cloud cookuu land if they think the few testers we have will do full retests of every flavour of every arch and bug each day.22:46
phillwtest results MUST be carried over.22:47
phillwthey actually need a reality check, if that is what they are pushing for.22:50
phillwIIRC, there is one lonely amd64+mac tester.... they really do need to understand just how thin on the ground testers are.22:51
balloonsphillw, yes agreed.. But even if there were 100 testers, that's not the right way to go about it23:01
balloonsimho the number of folks on-hand doesn't matter23:01
balloonsit's the classic optimizing before solving issue23:01
balloonsyou need to look at the issue and plan accordingly to test..if we don't have the resources, then we'll modify the plan as needed and make it work23:02
phillwballoons: you okay to chat here, I don't want arguments over this to spill over, is Pm okay?23:02
phillwproxlinux has gone to bed, I can finalise his new VM later.23:04
balloonsphillw, here is fine23:05
balloonsor pm23:05
phillwokies. well, the attitude from one contributer that if the flavours cannot make it, they will be dropped was certainly not an attitude that would endear the testers. I do not know of the other teams, but I sure as hell know know my team.....23:06
phillwUnless and until we can carry bugs / restests over through re-spins during QA halts; never mind from a2 to a3 - cadence is a hiding to nothing.23:08
balloonsphillw, I'd like to talk about bugs for a moment23:09
phillwI'm all ears23:09
balloonstechnically they aren't deleted the following day23:09
balloonsin all honesty my bigger worry is actually the results23:09
phillwat present, no.23:09
balloonsso quickly.. assuming I want to test the iso each day this week23:10
balloonslet's not talk about why or how23:10
balloonsjust that we want to and have good reason23:10
balloonsso, I test today. I see results and bugs.. awesome23:10
balloonstomorrow, I see nothing about what I or anyone else did today23:10
phillwBut they are not carried forward, this wastes time as a new tester will take the time to report a bug, that is a duplicate.23:10
balloonsit's still "there" but can no longer be seen.. except previous bugs are listed by the submission23:11
balloonsfurther, as the week progresses, I can't see how the image performed over the week23:11
balloonsdid all tests pass everyday?23:11
balloonshow many people tested it?23:11
balloonsdid we miss a test and never ran it all week?23:11
phillwballoons: we refer back to the initial issue.... We do not know.23:11
balloonsphillw, reporting dupes could be better.. but I'm saying there actually is some logic in place to help..23:12
balloonsand there's always triaging23:12
balloonsthe bigger issue is what I mentioned above23:12
balloonsat least in my eyes23:12
balloonsit's the fact I reported pass/fail and potential bug23:12
balloonsand now I nor anyone else can really see that result, nor track the "health" of the image23:13
phillwI agree, but we simply do not have enough testers to test every arch, of every flavour every 24 hours. It is simply not going to happen.23:13
balloonsphillw, I also agree23:13
balloonsbut further, as I was trying to say above, even if we did23:13
balloonswe shouldn't23:13
balloonsit doesn't make sense23:13
balloonsI want us as a community to test and add value.. to demonstrate that value and to feel proud of what we achieve23:14
phillwWe cannot even track bugs within a QA freeze..... Let us first walk before we try running?23:14
balloonsphillw, I would say bug tracking could always be better23:15
balloonsbut again, there is a report for that23:15
phillwthat is only under a supposed 5 day cadence persiod, we have not even been given them yet?23:15
balloonshttp://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/defects23:15
balloonsfor non-milestones.. well.. your out of luck23:15
balloonsaka, what bugs did we find last week? Well, I can cobble that info together23:16
balloonsbut it's not readily availible in a nice format23:16
phillwballoons: we cannot even do it for milestones?23:16
balloonsphillw, what's missing?23:16
balloonsI'm not saying it's part of our workflow or not.. simply that the data is presented in a semi-meaningful way and could be used23:16
phillwbug reports are erased at each re-spin, when a respin is called for over  'red'-bug(s)', all bugs should be carried over, with the 'red' bug being marked as "We think we've this / them", please retest.23:18
balloonssent you a mail23:18
balloonsphillw, yes I agree on that23:18
balloonsthe specific bugs we respun for should be tested23:18
balloons2 issues currently.. why we respin is unclear23:19
balloonshow to test the bug is not given23:19
phillwthat means that for the unsolved ones  people are aware it is still there.23:19
phillwwe do it on release notes?23:19
balloonsyes, it's tracked.. and more or less the "fixer" might verify it worked23:20
balloonsit whatever way I suppose they wish23:20
balloonsbut it's not a good workflow and leaves those testing in the dark23:20
balloonsthat's part of a larger I'd like to change how the workflow for a milestone happens23:20
phillwkeeping the testers in the dark is the complaint I get.23:21
phillwthey will test an entire suite, then it is completely deleted in terms of results. Even tough it passed as 100%.23:23
balloonsphillw, when I speak with the release team I speak about these issues23:23
balloonsbut I want to get more feedback from everyone in the community to voice the same things23:23
balloonsI too am in the dark on things..23:23
balloonsit's never intentional.. there's just roadblocks, technical and otherwise preventing a better system23:24
balloonsIt's my goal to tear them all down :-)23:25
balloonsHonestly just having more people talk about it is good.. But now that we've sounded off the problem, we can work on addressing each of the issues one by one23:25
phillwballoons: I wish you well, The L-QA team are still a vocal bunch of people with good experience. some are testers since 8.04 .... I do tend to verge on what they say about making testing better, as opposed to worse.23:26
phillwas to what Canonical decide upon, pass. I can only give input for a team, which though I say so myself, are a pretty damn good experienced team.23:27
phillwballoons: I can still not log on for UDS sposorship? you have my IP blocked? :P23:29
balloonsphillw, no.. it's still not up it seems23:29
balloonssomeone else also mentioned it today23:29
phillwhe he, well that stops applications.... on got till 17th to apply :)23:30
phillws/on/only23:30
balloonswhere did you see that phillw ?23:31
phillwballoons: http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/08/01/ubuntu-developer-summit-sponsorship-now-open-4/23:32
phillwi tend to take his stuff seriously23:32
phillwI did email him about it, but not had a reply.23:33
balloonsphillw, I will look into it23:34
balloonsthanks for the heads up on how close it was23:34
balloonsI figured there was something wrong temporialy with the site23:34
balloonskeep on me about :-) I don't mind23:34

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