Ara Pulido sent this message out to the Xubuntu-Users mailing list the other day, and I thought it was worth passing along to the greater Ubuntu community.  Testing for the Xubuntu 9.10 release candidate is going on now, so please read the email below and help out if you can.  Thanks!

I have been coordinating the ISO testing for Xubuntu since February of this year, and while it has really helped me to learn more about the release cycle, I am going to be changing jobs soon, and will not have as much free time. I’m also trying to contribute more to Xubuntu documentation, and that [...]

I’ve been so busy lately, haven’t had much time for all things linux-related. I guess I’m taking a breather since all of the 7.04 *ubuntus are out now. From what I can tell, the release has been a good one – no big “gotchas” have come up since release. Even though I do hear about [...]

There’s been a lot of changes going on with x/k/ed/ubuntu ISO testing lately, and a lot of the action is being coordinated in the forums. Check it out if you’re interested. There’s also a relatively new irc channel for ISO testing discussions, #ubuntu-iso on irc.freenode.net. If you see someone in there with the nick “j1mc,” [...]

I’ve modified the Xubuntu Testing wiki pages to provide better instructions on testing Xubuntu, and hopefully we’ll get a good group of testers fired up. Unfortunately, there weren’t enough tests done on Xubuntu Herds 1, 3, or 4, so no Herd was officially released. You can take a look at the testing pages here. I [...]

<j1mc> somerville32, i had a great install experience with the nightlies leading up to herd4. <somerville32> j1mc: Did you report that? <j1mc> no <somerville32> hehe <somerville32> See, we need that <somerville32> We need to get an official testing team together maybe <j1mc> i’m mostly on xubuntu-user mailing list. <somerville32> j1mc: Would you like to head [...]