QATeam
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
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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.
Please subscribe to the Ubuntu Quality mailing list. Announcements and coordination for testing will occur on this list.
Please send an introductory email to the Ubuntu Quality mailing list list introducing yourself, your previous QA work, and your plans for working in the team.
Join the Launchpad QA Team.
Add yourself to the Who We Are and Hardware pages, this helps us keeps track of who is contributing.
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
QA related teams
Name |
Purpose/focus |
Launchpad |
Mailing list |
IRC |
SRU testing/validation |
#ubuntu-quality |
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Main Ubuntu QA coordination/development |
#ubuntu-quality |
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Kubuntu QA coordination/development |
#kubuntu-devel |
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Xubuntu QA coordination/development |
#xubuntu-devel |
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Lubuntu QA coordination/development |
#lubuntu |
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Ubuntu Studio QA coordination/development |
#ubuntustudio-devel |
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Ubuntu GNOME QA coordination/development |
#ubuntu-gnome |