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Testing SoaS

The focus now is on SoaS release 1 snapshots (based on the coming Fedora 11). The next SoaS release is scheduled for late June and will be a Release Candidate (RC). See this post, http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg04104.html.

Report your hardware profile

Sugar on a Stick/Hardware has instructions for reporting your hardware profile.

Software Testing

See Smoke test, and give technical feedback on sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org.

Please keep notes on which version of Sugar on a Stick you have downloaded when reporting issues.

  • When booting SoaS, you'll see for a short time a Fedora screen showing a blue solar system.
  • By pressing the 'Escape' button here, you can get to Fedora's boot menu.
  • There, you should find the images name in the following structure: Soas{version number}-{date of creation}

Alternatively, you can also refer to the name of the .iso file from the download source.

To find out which version of the Sugar component you are using, you can look it up in the 'About my Computer' Section in 'My Settings'.

  • Report bugs on the Sugar Labs bug tracking system. Use the 'SoaS' component when entering new bugs.
  • Report which activities work, and which don't.
  • List all the activities you want to get included in SoaS on the roadmap's wiki page, stating that you suggested it!
  • We need to get all issues in our trac instance on dev.sugarlabs.org. If you want to get anything fixed (or have an enhancement) in time for the Release Candidate, please file it for the 'soas_linuxtag' milestone, so that it appears on our screens. This is the list of tickets, which are currently tracked for the release candidate: http://tinyurl.com/soas-rc-tickets.

User test notes:
Casual observations may be reported on this wiki (cross link bugs reports and test notes, as appropriate, to help document the problem).

  • Find your build version in the list of subpages below, or
  1. create a new subpage for an unlisted version by going to a page for a previous version.
  2. Then, in the address line of your browser, change the of the address string before the "&action=" segment to the version of the file (taken from the file date at the download page) and press <Enter>
    (The full address line will be something like http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Index.php&title=Sugar_on_a_Stick/Getting_Involved/Testing/Soas2-2009MMDD&action=edit) For more help on this process, see this help page section.
  3. Then enter a header line for your setup.
  4. Finally, enter some observations.

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