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Do it yourself

For sell Brand New Apple iPhone 5S 64GB -$350,Nokia Lumia 80

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By ramadans

SERCOM LIMITED® we are one of the leading mobile phone distributorsis. We are legitimate registered company under government registration and licensed,

Registered No.05031576

SERCOM LIMITED® is an Approved dealer, specialized in the distributors of Mobile phones, Laptops, Games, Mobile accessories, computer etc. Our objective is

to develop long-term relationships with our customers. To do so we continuously provide our existing customers new products advanced designs and patented

innovations so that they can stay on the top of their markets. Mind you all the product below are brand new and they come with the minimum of 1 full

international warranty.

We supply superior quality products all products strictly follow the standards of CE, FCC and RoHS, and are carefully inspected by a responsible QA team

before packaging.

We shipout worldwide through Professional and reliable courier company e.g FEDEX EXPRESS ,DHL and UPS within 24hrs of contract sealed, Customers never

experience what is called Breach of contract since our operation, Fidelity guarantee our service, our product are 100% international warranty and guarantee.

1. Complete accessories (Well packed and sealed in original company box)

2. Unlocked / SIM FREE.

3. Brand new (original manufacturer) box – no copies

4. All phones have English language as default

5. All material (software, manual) – car chargers – home chargers – USB data cables -holsters/belt clips – wireless headsets(Bluetooth) -leather and non-

leather carrying cases – batteries.

PAYMENT METHOD: PAYPAL, BANK TRANSFER, WESTERN UNION, MONEY GRAM, LIBERTY RESERVE

Company information and contact details:

Company Name: SERCOM LIMITED®

Registered No.05031576

Sales Manager: KRZYSZTOF KUCHARSKI

Company Address:381 Ashford Road, Laleham, Staines, Middlesex, Tw18 1qg

CONTACT EMAILS & SALES INQUIRY: sales.sercomlimited@gmail.com, sercomlimited@msn.com, sercom4u@yahoo.com

WEBSITE: SerCom

BEST OFFER:

BUY 2 UNITS GET 1 FOR FREE.

BUY 4 UNITS GET 2 UNITS FOR FREE WITH FREE SHIPPING.

BUY 10 UNITS GET 5 UNITS FOR FREE WITH FREE SHIPPING.
PRICELIST: BEST OFFER:
BUY 2 UNITS GET 1 FOR FREE.
BUY 4 UNITS GET 2 UNITS FOR FREE WITH FREE SHIPPING.
BUY 10 UNITS GET 5 UNITS FOR FREE WITH FREE SHIPPING.

PRICELIST:

Apple iPads:
Apple iPad 4 Wi-Fi……………………………..$320.00
Apple iPad mini Wi-Fi…………………………$300.00
Apple iPad 3 Wi-Fi + 4G 64GB……………..$280.00
Apple iPad 3 Wi-Fi + 4G 32GB……………..$280.00
Apple iPad 3 Wi-Fi + 4G 16GB……………..$300.00
Apple iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G 64GB ……… $300.00
Apple iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G 32GB ……… $290.00
Apple iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G 16GB ……… $270.00
Apple Tablet iPad 64GB (Wi-Fi + 3G) ….. $ 240.00
Apple Tablet iPad 32GB (Wi-Fi + 3G) ….. $ 220.00
Apple Tablet iPad 16GB (Wi-Fi + 3G)….. $ 200.00

Apple iPhone:
Apple iPhone 5 64GB —– $350.00
Apple iPhone 5 32GB —– $350.00
Apple iPhone 5 16GB —— $350.00
Apple iPhone 4S 64GB ——- $320.00
Apple iPhone 4S 32GB —— $ 300.00
Apple iPhone 4S 16GB —– …read more

Source: DoItYourself.com

Do it yourself

WTS New Samsung Galaxy S III-$300,Nokia 808 PureView-$320

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By ramadans

SERCOM LIMITED® we are one of the leading mobile phone distributorsis. We are legitimate registered company under government registration and licensed,

Registered No.05031576

SERCOM LIMITED® is an Approved dealer, specialized in the distributors of Mobile phones, Laptops, Games, Mobile accessories, computer etc. Our objective is

to develop long-term relationships with our customers. To do so we continuously provide our existing customers new products advanced designs and patented

innovations so that they can stay on the top of their markets. Mind you all the product below are brand new and they come with the minimum of 1 full

international warranty.

We supply superior quality products all products strictly follow the standards of CE, FCC and RoHS, and are carefully inspected by a responsible QA team

before packaging.

We shipout worldwide through Professional and reliable courier company e.g FEDEX EXPRESS ,DHL and UPS within 24hrs of contract sealed, Customers never

experience what is called Breach of contract since our operation, Fidelity guarantee our service, our product are 100% international warranty and guarantee.

1. Complete accessories (Well packed and sealed in original company box)

2. Unlocked / SIM FREE.

3. Brand new (original manufacturer) box – no copies

4. All phones have English language as default

5. All material (software, manual) – car chargers – home chargers – USB data cables -holsters/belt clips – wireless headsets(Bluetooth) -leather and non-

leather carrying cases – batteries.

PAYMENT METHOD: PAYPAL, BANK TRANSFER, WESTERN UNION, MONEY GRAM, LIBERTY RESERVE

Company information and contact details:

Company Name: SERCOM LIMITED®

Registered No.05031576

Sales Manager: KRZYSZTOF KUCHARSKI

Company Address:381 Ashford Road, Laleham, Staines, Middlesex, Tw18 1qg

CONTACT EMAILS & SALES INQUIRY: sales.sercomlimited@gmail.com, sercomlimited@msn.com, sercom4u@yahoo.com

WEBSITE: SerCom

BEST OFFER:

BUY 2 UNITS GET 1 FOR FREE.

BUY 4 UNITS GET 2 UNITS FOR FREE WITH FREE SHIPPING.

BUY 10 UNITS GET 5 UNITS FOR FREE WITH FREE SHIPPING.
PRICELIST: BEST OFFER:
BUY 2 UNITS GET 1 FOR FREE.
BUY 4 UNITS GET 2 UNITS FOR FREE WITH FREE SHIPPING.
BUY 10 UNITS GET 5 UNITS FOR FREE WITH FREE SHIPPING.

PRICELIST:

Apple iPads:
Apple iPad 4 Wi-Fi……………………………..$320.00
Apple iPad mini Wi-Fi…………………………$300.00
Apple iPad 3 Wi-Fi + 4G 64GB……………..$280.00
Apple iPad 3 Wi-Fi + 4G 32GB……………..$280.00
Apple iPad 3 Wi-Fi + 4G 16GB……………..$300.00
Apple iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G 64GB ……… $300.00
Apple iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G 32GB ……… $290.00
Apple iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G 16GB ……… $270.00
Apple Tablet iPad 64GB (Wi-Fi + 3G) ….. $ 240.00
Apple Tablet iPad 32GB (Wi-Fi + 3G) ….. $ 220.00
Apple Tablet iPad 16GB (Wi-Fi + 3G)….. $ 200.00

Apple iPhone:
Apple iPhone 5 64GB —– $350.00
Apple iPhone 5 32GB —– $350.00
Apple iPhone 5 16GB —— $350.00
Apple iPhone 4S 64GB ——- $320.00
Apple iPhone 4S 32GB —— $ 300.00
Apple iPhone 4S 16GB —– …read more

Source: DoItYourself.com

Video Gaming

Xbox Live "Totally Unacceptable" for Free-To-Play Games

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CEO of Wargaming Victor Kislyi has been quite honest in his appraisal of Microsoft’s online gaming service with regards to free-to-play titles.

Speaking with Polygon at PAX Australia, Kislyi said that the arduous certification process Microsoft enforces for Xbox Live updates doesn’t work well with the free-to-play model.

“The good thing is with online games, sometimes if you screw up, you can do frequent updates,” Kislyi said. “But one of the biggest challenges with Microsoft was the frequency of updates because the QA process and certification process takes an extremely long time. Totally unacceptable for a meaningful free-to-play. We are working with them to do quicker updates.”

Continue reading…

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games

Business, Finance, Occupation & Industry

High-Tech Polymer Moulder Moves to QAD Enterprise Applications On Demand to Leverage the Power of QA

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By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool

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High-Tech Polymer Moulder Moves to QAD Enterprise Applications On Demand to Leverage the Power of QAD Cloud ERP

Simple to Convert – QAD’s Transition and Conversion Services Allow ELHI Polymer Moulding to Easily Move from QAD On Premise to QAD On Demand

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– QAD Inc. (NAS: QADA) (NAS: QADB) , a leading provider of enterprise software and services, today announced that ELHI Polymer Moulding, a high-tech polymer moulder, selected QAD Enterprise ApplicationsOn Demand to leverage the power of QAD cloud infrastructure. The customer converted to QAD On Demand based on the need to keep current on the latest QAD software updates without the need to invest capital in hardware or IT maintenance.

Founded in 1949, ELHI Polymer Moulding specializes in high-tech engineered plastic parts and metal-plastic combinations for industrial and technical applications. A QAD customer since 1999, ELHI Polymer Moulding wanted to accelerate its strategic goals for growth, streamline production processes and enhance customer satisfaction.

QAD On Demand Offers a Flexible Full-featured ERP Solution

QAD engaged with ELHI Polymer Moulding to review their existing system from which the project scope and approach to migration were defined. ELHI Polymer Moulding determined QAD On Demand offered a simple and robust solution allowing rapid implementation, predictable operating costs and regular system updates. “QAD On Demand enables us to outsource management of our ERP system to a world-class partner with proven SaaS expertise,” said Gijs Jansen, managing director at ELHI Polymer Moulding. “The QAD cloud ERP solution allows us to focus our resources on our key business goals, increase productivity and enhance customer satisfaction.”

QAD On Demand will provide ELHI Polymer Moulding all of the QAD Enterprise Applications functionality in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model. Using QAD On Demand, ELHI Polymer Moulding can focus on strategy not the management of their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Moreover, QAD On Demand mitigates many of the IT and financial risks associated with maintaining ERP system management, as the software, systems and infrastructure are managed and administered by QAD in a secure, reliable and industry-compliant data center.

“QAD On Demand allows us to leverage QAD‘s system expertise, and their latest applications provide us with superior data analysis and business process management — without any need for costly and time-consuming customizations,” added Jansen.

Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

Linux

Howard Chan: Gah too many April Fools Day joke from Ubuntu community

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Yes that’s the title. Ubuntu gave me too many jokes yesterday.

1. Scott Lavender’s annoucement of resigning as Ubuntu Studio’s Project Lead

This is the first joke which turned out to be a non-joke. I was heartbroken.

I joined the Ubuntu Studio Team in August 2012, as an interested QA tester. At that time, it was Scott who contacted and welcomed me first. He was indeed a marvellous leader, pushing Ubuntu Studio on the conversion of the default desktop environment to Xfce and developing the initial idea of workflows.

Scott has been rather inactive in the 13.04 cycle due to his work, and he announced his resignation yesterday.

I was surprised since I was expecting the discussion of this matter in the 13.10 cycle, not the real thing on April Fools Day.X-(

Anyway, I would like to thank Scott and wish him every success in future development.

And now, the Ubuntu Studio Team enters “the zequence Era”!!!! (LOL). Scott has appointed Kaj Ailomaa (zequence) as the Ubuntu Studio Team’s new Project Lead. He has been working very extensively in the 12.10 & 13.04 cycle, writing documentation, doing SRUs, finding contributors, and much more. I do hope that every Ubuntu Studio Team member and user would support him as much as I do.

2. Oliver Grawart’s announcement about developers needing to pay money to upload packages and draft blueprints

This is so ridiculous that I really think this IS an April Fools Day joke. I mean, I need to PAY to upload packages and draft blueprints? Why? This clearly violates freedom of software packaging and makes people more unwilling to contribute to Ubuntu.

If this is the real thing, I either need somebody to sponsor me for this, or I just simply can’t contribute.

Please, Canonical and Ubuntu, stop going making Ubuntu a full commercial product.

So these jokes hit me yesterday and I don’t want anymore.

smartboyhw away from home in Hangzhou, China

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

Business, Finance, Occupation & Industry

SAP Customers Benefit From New End-To-End Mobile Testing Solution — Keynote DeviceAnywhere Now Inte

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By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool

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SAP Customers Benefit From New End-To-End Mobile Testing Solution — Keynote DeviceAnywhere Now Integrated With Worksoft

  • Worksoft and Keynote DeviceAnywhere ® integration delivers automated end-to-end functional and performance testing of mobile apps on real mobile devices to SAP Customers
  • The new integration will be showcased at the 2013 Worksoft Customer Conference in Texas on March 27; Also the focus of a joint webinar on “Testing Business Processes in an SAP Environment” on April 17 th

SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Keynote® (NAS: KEYN) , the global leader in Internet and mobile cloud testing and monitoring, today announced the integration of the Keynote DeviceAnywhere platform with Worksoft Certify®. Through the Worksoft Certify Mobile Interface Extension™ users can now perform automated end-to-end testing of SAP mobile applications on real devices.

The integration of DeviceAnywhere is a natural progression of Keynote’s previously announced worldwide partnership to extend Worksoft’s top ranked test automation software for SAP solutions (www.worksoft.com) to the mobile ecosystem. Worksoft now connects to DeviceAnywhere through the Worksoft Certify Mobile Interface Extension™, extending users’ existing library to include a private cloud of mobile devices in conjunction with Worksoft’s Certify solution.

IDC predicts that 20 percent of all enterprise IT spending in 2013 will be driven by mobile devices. SAP‘s head of mobile, Sanjay Poonen, recently announced SAP‘s plan to secure one billion users in the next two years. Companies using SAP mobile applications to improve workforce productivity and flexibility for customers need to conduct end-to-end functional and performance testing to ensure quality business performance and deliver an optimal end user experience. The Keynote-Worksoft integration allows SAP customers to use the Worksoft Certify Mobile Interface Extension to test both SAP and non-SAP mobile business applications, enabling operations and QA teams with advanced tools to ensure quality in mobile business systems across industries.

“SAP is aggressively driving forward its mobile initiatives making the need for comprehensive mobile testing solutions more critical and urgent than ever,” said Vik Chaudhary, vice president of product management and corporate development at Keynote. “Our integration is the ideal solution for SAP users who have come to value the dependability and quality reputation of Worksoft Certify, which they can now use along with Keynote …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

Linux

BlueDevil: Changing the way we work

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In short:
From now on we will be maintaining only one release instead of 4. We are going to focus on 1.3 and try to fix all remaining bugs, then we will work on implementing some of the reported wishes and release 1.4. Once that happens we will only maintain 1.4.

Explanation:
Since BlueDevil was released we have been updating all stable versions, which means:

  • 1.0 (currently at 1.0.5)
  • 1.1 (currently at 1.1.5)
  • 1.2 (currently at 1.2.4)
  • 1.3 (about to release 1.3.1)

This has been possible because the code base did not change much between releases so we fixed the bugs in the oldest version and then forwarded the fix to all the other releases, this was the easy part.

Before each release we like to do some intense testing to make sure that none of the basic functionality has been broken. In the hardware world quality is extremely important, we do not want to leave the user without a mouse, connectivity or an usable screen just because we are lazy or we don’t feel like doing QA.

In the case of BlueDevil we test most of this before each release (independently of what code has been modified):http://community.kde.org/Solid/Projects/BlueDevil/Tests

This means that even if the “Send File” functionality was NOT modified in a new release, we test it just in case something broke.

In the list there are more or less 60 items, lets say it takes 1 minute per item to test it (it takes more) that means that it will take roughlyan hour to test an entire release. Now multiply this per 4 which is the number of releases we have been doing and you will get 4 hours we invest on QA.

Besides the work we do before each release there is a constant effort of bug triaging that becomes way more difficult when you support a variety of versions since it makes you have to switchto a given version to try to reproduce and fix a bug you can’t reproduce with the version you are using.

If it is that much trouble, why have you been doing it?
In one word: distributions. Each distribution has a different time table, each distribution has a different minor release policy, each distribution is a different world. At the time we started doing this, Bluetooth in KDE was a mess so the highest priority was to have a good experience in alldistributions. It should not matter which Bluedevlil version they were using.

Nowadays the situation has changed, we work quite well in all published versions so if a distribution does not upgrade (for whatever reason) the user won’t die.

So, now what?
From now on we are going to maintain only one version, and we are not going to support (or give support) to any other. This means that if a bug is reported with an old version the first thing we are going to ask is to upgrade and test again (if the part that issupposedlybroken has been …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE

Computers

How to keep IT projects under control: 13 tips

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Scope creep. Team members who don’t understand what’s expected of them. Poor inter-departmental communication. These are just some of the problems project managers constantly face.

So how do you keep projects under control? CIO.com asked dozens of project managers and project management experts to find out. Here are their top 13 suggestions for dealing with the challenges all project managers face at one time or another—and for keeping projects in check.

Flickr: C Knaus

1. Appoint the right project manager for the job.“Hire project managers who will have the respect of the developers and who understand what they are doing,” says Harry E. Keller, the president, CEO and founder of Smart Science Education Inc. “Nothing kills IT projects faster than poor management. It’s tough because most developers aren’t suited to management and most managers are clueless regarding developer types, but it’s worth the effort.”

2. Support the project manager with the right team. “The CIO must adequately equip the team with the right people,” says Ben Lichtenwalner, senior manager of Internet & eCommerce for Whirlpool Corporation and founder of ModernServantLeader.com. Not only must you choose the right project manager, but you need to “support your project manager with the right team members (business analyst, QA manager, etc.) so the project manager can [properly] manage the project and [doesn’t] do all the work.”

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld

Linux

Serge Hallyn: Qemu updates in raring

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The raring feature freeze took effect last week. What’s been happening with qemu in the meantime?

A lot! I’ll touch on the following main changes in this post: package reorg, spice support, hugepages, uefi, and rbd support.

* package reorg

Perhaps best to begin with a bit of Ubuntu qemu packaging history. In hardy (before my time) Ubuntu shipped with separate qemu and kvm packages. This reflected the separate upstream qemu and kvm source trees. In August of 2009, upstream was already talking about merging the two trees, and Dustin Kirkland started a new qemu-kvm Ubuntu package which provided both qemu and kvm.

In 2010, a new ‘qemu-linaro’ source package was created in universe, to provide qemu with more bleeding-edge arm support from linaro. Eventually the qemu-kvm package provided the i386 and amd64 qemu-system binaries, qemu-common, and qemu-utils. All other target architecture system binaries, plus all qemu-user binaries, plus qemu-kvm-spice, came from qemu-linaro. This is clearly non-ideal from many viewpoints, and especially QA testing and bug duplication. But any reorganization would have to make sure that upgrades work seamlessly for raring-raring, quantal-raring, and future LTS-to-LTS upgrades, for the many commonly used packages (qemu-kvm, qemu on various packages, and qemu-user).

In the traditional 6-month-plus-LTS Ubuntu cycle, raring was a good time (not too close to next LTS) to try to straighten that out. It was also a good time in that upstream qemu and kvm were now very close together, and especially in that the wonderfully helpful debian qemu team which was also starting to merge debian’s qemu and qemu-kvm sources into a new qemu source tree in debian experimental.

And so, it’s done! The qemu-linaro and qemu-kvm source packages have been merged into qemu. Most arm patches from linaro are in our package, but you can still run linaro’s qemu from ppa at https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/tools/. The Ubuntu and Debian teams are working together, which should mean more stable packages in both, and combined resources in addressing bugs. Thanks especially to Michael Tokarev for helping to review the Ubuntu delta, and to infinity for more than once helping to figure out packaging issues I couldn’t have figured out on my own.

* Spice support. Spice has finally made it into main! The qemu package in main therefore finally supports spice, without having to install a separate qemu-kvm-spice package. As a simple example, if you used to do:

kvm -vga vmware -vnc :1

then you can use spice by doing:

kvm -vga qxl -spice port=5900,disable-ticketing

then connect with spicec or spicy:

spicec -h hostname -p 5900

3. Transparent hugepages. The 1.4.0 qemu release includes support for transparent hugepages. This means that when hugepages are available, qemu instances migrate some memory pages from regular to huge pages. Hugepages offer performance improvements due to (1) requiring fewer TLB entries for the same amount of memory, (2) requiring fewer lookups per page, and (3) requiring fewer page faults for nearby memory references (since each memory page …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

Linux

Ubuntu Server blog: Ubuntu Server Team Meeting Minutes 20130226

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It was decided not to send an alpha-2 call for testing, but to wait for beta instead. Daviey mentioned that matsurba has kindly offered to help with dep-8 tests.

BLUEPRINTS

Daviey thinks we look a little further behind than we actually are, and asks that everyone take a look to make sure their blueprints are uptodate. If you’d like to mark some items postponed, please first talk to Daviey, jamespage or smoser.

QA

plars will be taking hggdh’s place representing QA.

plars noted that conffile failures no longer raise individual bugs, but rather are reported at https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Raring/view/Smoke%20Testing/job/raring-upgrade-quantal-server/ARCH=amd64,LTS=non-lts,PROFILE=server-tasks,label=upgrade-test/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/results/obsolete_conffiles.log

KERNEL

smb re-advertised http://people.canonical.com/~smb/lucid-ec2-ng/

ACTIONS:

* jamespage to milesone documentation updates [carryover]
* serge to update server meeting docs to reflect palrs representing qa
* serge to consider putting the obsolete_conffiles.log url in weekly triaging knowledgebase section

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

Linux

Howard Chan: QA Cadence Week 7 Global Jam Special + Testcase Conversion script

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Hello world!

Ubuntu Global Jam is coming to town (seriously) from 1st to 3rd March, 2013, with different Ubuntu contribution projects that you can play with friends in your city or on the Internet.

Our QA Cadence Week 7 is at the same time as it, so Nicholas Skaggs has posted a new wiki page for all people to check out what YOU can do for QA. Find it at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Cadence/Raring/Week7UbuntuGlobalJam.

We will be focusing on three aspects:

Application testing: This time we have multiple applications for you to test, including Deja-dup, Empathy, Evince, Eye of Gnome, Fileroller, Firefox, Gedit, Gnome Screenshot, Gnome Terminal, LibreOffice, Nautilus, Network Manager, Orca, Pulseaudio, Rythmnbox, Shotwell, Thunderbird, Totem and Ubuntu One. Just follow the detailed testcases and report bugs along the way. Make sure you report them through terminal using `ubuntu-bug (packagename)`.

Images testing: We have Raring daily images freshly prepared for you to come and test. Bring along your spare machine or VM (or even a Nexus 7!) to play with testing. Make sure it installs and works and no bugs.

Hardware testing: If you have a laptop, try to install the Raring daily images and make sure not only the software but the hardware works too, like Trackpad, DVD drive, USB, sound, etc.

If you want to write manual testcases and followed the format but don’t know if it is right or wrong, check out Javier P.L. (chilicuil)’s script in https://raw.github.com/chilicuil/learn/master/sh/test_case_format Download the script and run `./test_case_format (testcase)` to get it converted. Then submit a merge request against lp:ubuntu-manual-tests !

WELCOME TO QUALITY ASSURANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

Linux

Find and replace using sed command

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By kmanivan82

The content of the file filea.txt is as follows.
———
case $HOSTNAME in
aaa)
DS_PARM_VALUE_SET=vsDev
APT_Configuration_File=/appl/infoserver/Server/Configurations/2node.apt

;;
bbb)
DS_PARM_VALUE_SET=vsQA
APT_Configuration_File=/appl/infoserver/Server/Configurations/2node.apt

;;
ccc)
DS_PARM_VALUE_SET=vsProd
APT_Configuration_File=/appl/infoserver/Server/Configurations/2node.apt

;;
*)
DS_PARM_VALUE_SET=vsDev
APT_Configurations_File=/appl/infoserver/Server/Configuarations/2node.apt

;;
esac
———

Now aaa has to be changed to ‘DEV’, bbb has to be changed to ‘QA‘ and ccc has to be changed to ‘PROD’.

The new file should be as follows.
———
case $HOSTNAME in
‘DEV’)
DS_PARM_VALUE_SET=vsDev
APT_Configuration_File=/appl/infoserver/Server/Configurations/2node.apt

;;
‘QA‘)
DS_PARM_VALUE_SET=vsQA
APT_Configuration_File=/appl/infoserver/Server/Configurations/2node.apt

;;
‘PROD’)
DS_PARM_VALUE_SET=vsProd
APT_Configuration_File=/appl/infoserver/Server/Configurations/2node.apt

;;
*)
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at The UNIX and Linux Forums

Linux

Ubuntu Classroom: Your first ISO test

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We’re happy to announce that next week, on Wednesday, February 13th at 13:00 UTC, in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net (#ubuntu-classroom-chat for questions). Howard Chan (smartboyhw) will be hosting the final scheduled session by the Quality team, Your first ISO test. Phill Whiteside (phillw) and Nicholas Skaggs (balloons) will also be available during this session to assist with questions. Please visit the Section 3 requirements wiki page if you wish to actively follow the exercises in this class.

In other Quality news, the logs for our most recent sessions with the team are available. The first is their series on bugs by Phill Whiteside (phillw) and Gema Gomez-Solano (gema):

We then had a series of laptop testing sessions presented by Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h) Carla Sella (Letozaf) and Sergio Meneses (SergioMeneses):

Today Phill Whiteside (phillw) and Jackson Doak (Noskcaj) of the Quality team hosted a series of sessions in #ubuntu-quality about the QA tools available for ISO testing:

Thanks to everyone who participated and the effort put into making the schedules work!

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

Linux

Raphaël Hertzog: My Free Software Activities in January 2013

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This is my monthly summary of my free software related activities. If you’re among the people who made a donation to support my work (84.25 €, thanks everybody!), then you can learn how I spent your money. Otherwise it’s just an interesting status update on my various projects.

Debian Packaging

In one of my customer projects, I had to use libwebsockets and since it was not packaged for Debian, I filed a “Request For Package” (RFP #697671). I discovered a fork of this library on github and decided to mail the original author and the author of the fork to learn a bit more about the reason of the fork. It turns out that they miscommunicated and that the original author was interested by most of the improvements. The fork still exists but the important fixes and most of the improvements have been merged (and he released a version 1.0 after that!). Furthermore the original author setup a bug tracker to better organize the project and so that the author of the fork can submit patches and be sure that they won’t be forgotten (as it happened in the past). I spend quite some time discussing with both parties but at the end I’m pleased to see that good progress has been made (although nobody stepped up to maintain this package in Debian).

I packaged zim 0.59 (an important bugfix release) and wordpress 3.5.1 (with several security fixes). I updated the dpkg-dev squeeze backports to version 1.16.9~bpo60+1 on request of Daniel Schepler. This backport led me to file #698133 on kgb-client because the bot literally spammed the #debian-dpkg IRC channel for multiple hours by resending old commit notices that got merged in the squeeze-backports branch. BTW, they need help to get this issue fixed.

I updated python-django-registration to fix a compatibility issue with python3-sphinx (see #697721 for details).

Misc Debian Stuff

Serious bug with salt. I filed a grave bug on salt (#697747—) and prepared the upload to fix the issue on request of the maintainer. In the mean time, the maintainer orphaned the package. Franklin G. Mendoza already announced its willingness to take over but this package deserves multiple maintainers since this is a good piece of software that is getting more and more popular.

net-retriever and alternate keyrings. I filed a wishlist bug (#698618) on net-retriever to request a way for derivatives to use another keyring package (i.e. not debian-archive-keyring-udeb) without having to fork net-retriever.

Linux 3.7 on armel/armhf. I helped the kernel maintainers to fix the 3.7 kernel on armel/armhf by reporting on IRC the results of successive failing kernel rebuilds on those architectures (this kernel version is only in experimental).

Carl9170 firmware. I also pinged the kernels maintainers about a missing firmware for the carl9170 driver (already reported in #635840) and Ben Hutchings took care of re-activating its inclusion in upstream’s linux-firmware.git and then uploaded firmware-free 3.2 to Debian. Thanks Ben!

New QA team member. And to finish with the miscellaneous stuff, I helped Holger Levsen to be added to the “qa” group so that he could integrate his awesome work on automated QA checks with Jenkins.

Debian France

Preparation for Solutions Linux. The people organizing the “village of associations” in the Solutions Linux conference have asked all organizations to apply for a booth if they wanted one. Last year Carl Chenet took care of organizing this and this time we had to find someone else. I made multiple call for volunteers (on the mailing list, on my blog) without much success but I finally managed to convince Tanguy Ortolo to take care of this. Thank you Tanguy!

Get in touch with treasurer who disappeared. During the transition with the former Debian France officers, it has been said that Aurélien Gérôme — another former treasurer of Debian France — had entirely disappeared together with some papers that he never gave to his successor. I didn’t want to give up on this without at least trying to get in touch by myself… so after multiple tries (over IRC, phone, and snail mail), and some weeks without answers, he got back to me, explaining that he’s currently in a foreign country and that he will take care of that next time that he comes in France. o/

New website in preparation. Replacing the single-page website webpage with a more comprehensive website is an important goal. Alexandre Delanoë provided a basic ikiwiki setup inspired by dsa.debian.org. I cleaned it and integrated it in a git repository on our machine. There’s thus a new test website on http://france.debian.net/test/. Tanguy Ortolo and Fernando Lagrange immeditaly made some small improvements but since then nobody stepped up to further complete the website. I’ll try to do this in February and put the new website in production.

Paypal and handling of members. We installed a paypal plugin in galette so that members can renew their membership online. I asked Christian Bayle to try it out and we found some issues that I reported upstream and that got fixed. But this is only the first step, we want to go much further and automate all the membership handling, from membership renewal mail reminders up to integration in the accounting system. To this end, I filed some new tickets in the Galette tracker and completed some that were already opened: #490, #368 and #394. We requested a quote for those tickets and Debian France is going to fund the work on those tickets so that we have a 100% free software solution for our needs.

Thanks

See you next month for a new summary of my activities.

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Ubuntu Classroom: Interested in helping with Quality? Several sessions next week!

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Back in January, the Classroom team hosted Section 1 of the Quality Assurance sessions for this cycle, logs here. During the week of February 4th, the Classroom team is happy to report that we will be hosting a series of sessions given by phillw, Gema, Noskcaj, letozaf, SergioMeneses, and primes2h!

Section 2: Reporting Bugs

These sessions will be an introduction to reporting bugs

This section will be held in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net (#ubuntu-classroom-chat for questions).

Introduction to bug reporting

Following a bug report

Laptop testing

In this section, several of our instructors will be guiding users through the basics of laptop testing!

This section will be held in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net (#ubuntu-classroom-chat for questions).

Registering your laptop on the database

Testing on a laptop

Section 3: Introduction to QA tools

Now learn more tools of the Ubuntu QA trade!

Due to overlap with Ubuntu User Days in the classroom channels on Saturday, these classes will be hosted in #ubuntu-quality on irc.freenode.net (#ubuntu-quality-chat for questions).

These sessions and beyond will require people to have various things pre-installed, please see to Section 3 requirements for the details.

Introduction to QA tools; Zsync, Vbox, KVM

Using Testdrive

The full details and any last minute changes will be available here on this wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities/Classroom


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Dmitrijs Ledkovs: Thoughts on Debian package policies

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configure, Makefile.in, config.guess & config.sub
Are static, included copies of code that should always be rebuild during build. If they are not rebuild at build time, it should be documented/automated the relevant helpers that are needed to rebuild the package. If they are failing to rebuild it’s RC since source code is provided that is effectively cannot be modified in the preferred form. They also should not be modified in patch form, as editing generated code is not preferred form of modification. Also it constantly hurts us when bringing up new kernels and architectures (recently kfreebsd, armhf, aarch64). dh_autoreconf is a great tool to achieve thiis s.

no native packages
Generally if software is useful in Debian Project it can be useful for other debian-like and unlike projects. In particular native packages do not offer the same patching flexibility as 3.0 (quilt), thus forcing downstream distributions to inline modify packages without DEP-3 headers. This hurts us, when  trying to merge useful stuff from derivatives back into Debian, as changes are not split into individual patches.

shared maintainership
I’d like to put all my packages under “Debian Developers ” maintainership. There is no need for NMU, QA, TEAM upload. If you have a patch, I don’t want a bug in BTS nor commits, I’d like you to simply upload it into the archive. Especially blanket changes must be welcomed across the whole archive: translations, unit tests, porting to new debhelper versions, FTBFS fixes against next versions of compilers and interpreters, multiarch & cross-building fixes, porting to latest best packaging practices.

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Ubuntu Classroom: QA Introduction to Manual Test Cases class

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We just wrote yesterday about an Introduction to QA / Testing class coming up next week and we’re happy to announce that we’ll also be hosting another QA class that day!

On Tuesday, January 15th at 21:00 UTC the Classroom welcomes Phill Whiteside (phillw) of the Quality Assurance (QA) team who will be presenting an Introduction to Manual Test Cases, which will be an “introduction for what they are, what they do & writing one for GCalc.”

This is the second in what will be several classes by the QA team, visit their wiki page to learn more about upcoming proposed sessions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities/Classroom

This event will be held in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net (#ubuntu-classroom-chat for questions).


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Ubuntu Classroom: Introduction to QA / Testing class

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Next week, on Tuesday, January 15th at 19:00 UTC the Classroom welcomes Nicholas Skaggs (balloons) of the Quality Assurance (QA) team who will be presenting “an introduction to QA, the quality team, the tools and what we do” including signing up for a launchpad account and the ubuntu-quality email list, using the wiki, IRC, getting connected, and an overview of testing areas.

This is the first in what will be several classes by the QA team, visit their wiki page to learn more about upcoming proposed sessions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Activities/Classroom

This event will be held in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net (#ubuntu-classroom-chat for questions).


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