QATeam

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Clear message

The Ubuntu Quality 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 Quality team do?

  • Creates and manages testcases to meet the quality needs of different teams
  • Participates in testing events to ensure packages and images
  • Helps to build communities around QA work and run them smoothly.
  • Leads Ubuntu's testing activities.

Contact

Social Networks

Getting Involved

Ubuntu Quality 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 ubuntu to join our team.

Joining

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

Next Steps

  • Read our activities page to find out what we do, and more importantly, how to help us!

  • Consider taking part in one of our cadence testing weeks which happen every 2 weeks. See the schedule here, and watch the mailing list for more instructions and help.

  • Also, consider contributing testcases. See this page for help getting started.

  • If you will be testing on anything other than a virtual machine, set up a Hardware Profile

  • Remember, if you get stuck, ask for help!

References

  • Read an overview of how the team operates.

  • Familiarize yourself with the glossary of terms used.

  • Check out the different activities we do on the Activities page. The mailing list will also announce opportunities as they come up.

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-quality channel on irc.freenode.net

Name

Purpose/focus

Launchpad

Mailing list

IRC

SRU Verification

SRU testing/validation

sru-verification

ubuntu-quality

#ubuntu-quality

Ubuntu QA

Main Ubuntu QA coordination/development

ubuntu-testing

ubuntu-quality

#ubuntu-quality

Kubuntu QA

Kubuntu QA coordination/development

kubuntu-members

kubuntu-devel

#kubuntu-devel

Xubuntu QA

Xubuntu QA coordination/development

xubuntu-testers

xubuntu-devel

#xubuntu-devel

Lubuntu QA

Lubuntu QA coordination/development

lubuntu-team

lubuntu-qa

#lubuntu

Ubuntu Studio QA

Ubuntu Studio QA coordination/development

ubuntustudio-testing

Ubuntu-Studio-devel

#ubuntustudio-devel

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