[Libreoffice-qa] [QA] bugzilla -> Base

[Petr Mladek]

Hi Jochen,

first thanks for your initiative.

I am sorry for the late replay. We are all very busy with the 3.6.0
release.

Jochen píše v So 28. 07. 2012 v 12:37 +0200:
> Hi *,
> 
> two people from the German community have launched a QA-initiative in 
> bugzilla (Jochen and Robert). Among other things, the number of 
> NEEDINFOs were reduced and many NEWs were concreted.
> For the bug 36858 [1] IMHO the problem was worked out very nicely. My 
> hope is that a programmer looks at this time and this problem takes. 

> This is an example of multiple bugreport, which are more or less 
> completely prepared for programmers.
> What is the procedure?

I am not sure if you are aware of the page
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugTriage and
It might answer some of your questions.


> What is possible?
> What can we do to relieve the programmer?
> Who are the programmers at all?

We have many volunteers that work on bugs as time permits. Some of theme
are interested into particular areas. We try to list them at
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/FindTheExpert

Please, do not assign bugs to these people. They might be overloaded and
some others might want to take the bugs instead. Just put them into CC.


> And how many?
> Have "ASSIGNED" priority?

ASSIGNED means that someone is actively working on the fix. Otherwise,
we use severity and priority flags to prioritize the bugs, see
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/0/06/Prioritizing_Bugs_Flowchart.jpg
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport_Details#Severity

The very most urgent bugs should be also linked to the "Most Annoying"
metabug, see
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Release_Criteria#Blocker_Bug_Nomination


> Does it make sense to continue to work at more NEWs if ADSSIND not ready 
> yet?

Sure. See also the mail
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/2012-August/002231.html
Joel is trying to organize it a bit.

> How is it desired by the programmers?

It is really appreciated and useful work.


> [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36858

BTW: It is great that you confirmed the bug. It would be even better if
you attached your test document and mentioned few clear steps how to use
it. It would speed up debugging and also verifying.

Continue the great work.


Best Regards,
Petr