[Libreoffice-qa] After EOL has been reached...

[Robinson Tryon]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen
<bjoern.michaelsen at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> So, as a developer, I would think comments (and the platform field) would be
> sufficient for these rare cornercases.
>
> For fixed and reappearing, I think its
> not really an issue:
> - if the bug is really fixed, it should have a dev having insight in the some
>   issue already (and reading a few comments is not so much work compared to the
>   total effort in these cornercases)
> - if the bug was not fixed but just "disappeared" -- that is, stopped being
>   there without a dev claiming to intentionally having fixed it, it is likely a
>   Heisenburg anyway and the version info to be used carefully (or even ignored)
>   anyway.

If the developers think that the current system provides enough
information for them to fix the bugs, then perhaps we don't need to
make any updates to the system for the devs, which is good to know.

My thought was that a cleaner, more visual display of the information
could be helpful for people doing QA (both on the team or just regular
users) to understand the helpfulness of narrowing-down the precise
point at which a bug was introduced into the code. The FDO interface
can be very cryptic!

I don't know if an easier-to-read interface would increase our ability
to attract users to join us and help us retain people as members of
the QA Team, but it is one of the things I thought about when making a
mock-up. We definitely need to grow our ranks to be able to address
the influx of bug reports.

Cheers,
--R