Is this a spam or original?

[Fintan]

I just received this message:

Hi,

mozilla is about to release an update of their firefox 2.0 release series
and the Ubuntu MozillaTeam [0] needs you to test the candidates builds
available in PPA [1].

The testing is done by running a test plan [3] and submitting the results
to the mozilla QA site [1]; in addition, just use the builds and look for
regressions while doing your daily work.

If you need help, just join #ubuntu-testing or #ubuntu-mozillateam on
irc.freenode.net and ask your questions.

Thanks a lot!

- Alexander


Note: We are looking for new testers on all supported ubuntu releases.
That's currently dapper, feisty, gutsy and hardy. In particular we have a
lack of dapper and feisty testers and your contribution on testing those
releases would be highly appreciated. So, if you want to help, but don't
have such a system installed (anymore), consider to setup a chroot or a
VM (try virtualbox [2]).


[0] - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/
[1] - http://mozilla.qa.ubuntu.com
[2] - virtual box instructions are https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox
and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/VirtualBox
[3] - Testplan: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/QA

from:
QA Testing Tracker <qatracker@stgraber.org>

and this as subject:

Firefox 2.0.0.15 Candidate Builds and Backports

What is strange is first of all the content and second I received this on an email account that is not registered with KFN or Ubuntu.

Any ideas or has anyone seen this as well?

[Detonate]

Re: Is this a spam or original?

I got the same email. don't know if it is spam or not. I am not interested in installing an older version so I just deleted it. It is fishy though. Why would they be spending time on this?

[Primoz]

Re: Is this a spam or original?

Yeah I got this E-mail myself. I think I got it because I "ordered" myself on Ubuntu QA (quality assessment) e-mails.
When I saw it I thought this is probably a mistype he probably thinks firefox 3.0.

But I don't know nothing more than that.

[claydoh]

Re: Is this a spam or original?

2.0..015, for older versions of Ubuntu that can't support FF3.0, and has some security and bugfixes, scheduled to be released for testing today, estimated release in july
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_2.0.0.15