[Libreoffice-qa] bibisect suggestion (was: QA Meeting Minutes - 2014-04-21)

[Robinson Tryon]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen
<bjoern.michaelsen at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 05:43:43PM -0400, Terrence Enger wrote:
>> From the QA meeting minutes:
>>
>> > (*) SUGGESTION: Standardization of our summary field for Bugzilla
>> >     (*) Or: When searching for one phrase, display results from a
>> <     similar one (e.g. "image" -> "picture" or "graphic")
>
> Hmm, Im uncertain as to what the goal is here and if its reachable.
> - Reporters (end users) will most likely ignore an attempt at using a
>   standardized vocabulary
> - Triagers will most likely have a good grip on all the words used for one
>   topic and might even derive additional information from the nuances (as
>   Terrence shows here ;) )
> - Ultimately: Who should be the consumer of these queries/standardisation? How
>   does it help devs to address the impportant and urgent bugs quicker?

One possible method for increasing use of standardized language would
be to ask users to tag bugs, e.g. "table", "inserted graphic",
"footer", "paragraph style". We could then search for and consolidate
tags such as "image" and "graphic" as a part of the de-duplication
process.

Joel has also proposed the use of a set of questions during bug
submission. These questions could be used to insert some standardized
information into the bug report.


Best,
--R

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Robinson Tryon
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The Document Foundation
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