Trusty Cycle Updates

First things first, we have our burndown up for the trusty cycle! If your name appears on the list next to a work item, congratulations! Let's work through the items and make it happen ;-) If your name doesn't appear, don't worry! Feel free to help complete the tasks anyway, or jump in an get started on something you love. The mailing list is always open and we love to hear new ideas. See a blueprint that looks interesting and want to help? Get in touch!

What's happening now?
Now, for an update as to what is going on in quality. This week starts Alpha 1 for the flavors that are participating. In addition, the first work items are starting to see completion.

Ali has been working on getting the wiki pages and workflow ready for our community calls for testing. You can check out the page on the wiki here, and schedule testing events. The page explains the basic workflow -- I'd encourage you to schedule events for your favorite packages and let others know about the event on the mailing list. Be sure and report the results once you've completed.

Alberto has been working on getting the papercuts project running for the trusty cycle and ensuring the buglist is maintained and accessible.

Dan has been working on getting our automated testing in place and we're meeting with the CI team this week to get this implemented as part of the release process. Excellent work Dan!

Dan has also been working on the autopilot gtk emulator, which seeks to do the same thing as we've done with the autopilot ubuntu sdk emulator. Both of these frameworks help make writing tests easier.

Speaking of tests, Carla and others have been busy adding and fixing tests to make sure our dashboard stays green. And look at it! We're over 99% passing tests for the ubuntu touch platform. I want to personally thank everyone who's helped write and maintain these tests. Kudos to you all!

On the desktop side, Dan is helping new folks land tests, and the ubuntu desktop default apps continue to run and provide feedback on the desktop.

We also saw several new members join the ubuntu community via ubuntu quality recently. Congrats to Jean-Baptiste, Dan Chapman and Daniel Kessel (my apologies if I missed you!). 

Finally we have Thibaut and other folks looking at refactoring and improving ubuntu startup disk creator. Checkout the full blueprint for more information.

So, what's next?
Well for most of us, it's the Holiday season. Looking beyond the Holidays, , there's several big items in my list to work on in January:

1. Continue to keep the dashboard green all the time
2. Do wiki, mailing list, launchpad integration with bugsquad
3. Add wiki documentation and videos for exploratory testing

What am I doing?
Well, you dear reader, I trust is getting involved in some of the work items and other activities. It starts with installing the development version of ubuntu and then diving in from there. Perhaps you want to write some tests, triage or fix some bugs, or schedule a testing event. If you are interested in making a contribution to ubuntu, we can always use good testers, test writers, developers and triagers!

If you are celebrating holidays this time of year, enjoy your time!  Thanks everyone and Happy Testing!