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The Ubuntu QA team is focused on developing and maintaining documentation, policies and practices for ensuring Ubuntu's quality as a distribution as well as providing general advice, oversight, and leadership of QA community and its activities within the Ubuntu project.

What kinds of things does the Ubuntu QA team do?

• Assesses and communicates Ubuntu's QA needs.
• Works on creating consistent and efficient QA-related policies.
• Helps to build communities around QA work and run them smoothly.
• Leads Ubuntu's testing activities.
• Provides leadership to Ubuntu QA-related projects.

Contact

• Launchpad team

• Ubuntu QA mailing list

• #ubuntu-testing on irc.freenode.net

Getting Involved

Ubuntu QA is mainly a coordination team, so individuals, not other teams, can be members. Additionally, memberships expire annually and can be renewed by members themselves. We heartily encourage people from all areas of QA to join our team.

Joining

Interested in joining the team? Great! You need to do a couple things to get plugged in.

• Please subscribe to the Ubuntu QA mailing list. Announcements and coordination for testing will occur on this list.

• Please send an introductory email to the Ubuntu QA mailing list list introducing yourself, your previous QA work, and your plans for working in the team.

• Join the Launchpad QA Team.

Next Steps

• Read an overview of how the team operates.

• Familiarize yourself with the glossary of terms used.

• Pick an area of testing you would like to get involved with! See the different activities we do on the Activities page. The mailing list will also announce opportunities as they come up.

• If your unsure of where to start, going through a testing walk-through is a good place to familiarize yourself with how to test and use the qatracker. The package tracker contains the products we are currently testing. Pick one to test, and follow the instructional walk-through. If you get stuck, ask for help!

Getting Help

• If you have trouble understanding where to start, contact us for help:

  • Send an email to the mailing list

  • Come to talk to us on the #ubuntu-testing channel on irc.freenode.net

  • Join our team meetings in #ubuntu-meeting channel on Wednesdays, 14:00 UTC. Click here to read the details and agenda for the next meeting, as well as logs of previous meetings.

Meetings

The Ubuntu QA team has regular weekly meetings Wednesdays at 14:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net . See agenda and archive at /Meetings

Additionally, the QA platform team posts there live hangouts each week. Check out the archive here.

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