[Libreoffice-qa] daily bibisect

[Mas]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:39 PM, <dk122 at torfree.net> wrote:

> Just for convenience, my changes so far today are
> <https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/index.**
> php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&**diff=73158&oldid=73085<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&diff=73158&oldid=73085>
> >.
> They go beyond the changes I mention in-line.
>
>
> Quoting "Joel Madero" <jmadero.dev at gmail.com>:
>
>  On 07/28/2013 12:00 PM, libreoffice-qa-request at lists.**freedesktop.org<libreoffice-qa-request at lists.freedesktop.org>wrote:
>>
>>> I have added some instructions to deal with tags latest and oldest in
>>> the daily bibisect repo
>>> <https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/index.**
>>> php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&**diff=73085&oldid=73084<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&diff=73085&oldid=73084>
>>> >.
>>> Will you be good enough to look over the changes?
>>>
>>> Of course, if the repo came with these tags laready in place, that
>>> whole section of the page could go away.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Terry.
>>>
>> I'll take a look - we've been talking quite a bit about cleaning this
>> page and I see that you're adding and cleaning it up. Was wondering if
>> you'd be willing (if not let me know and I'll take a stab at it) to do a
>> couple things to the page.
>>
>
> I will be glad to continue hacking at the page.
>
>
>> 1. Can you add a note that says if the bibisect shows the bug the entire
>> time (ie. it's prebibisect) to mark the version as 3.5beta0 in FDO - this
>> is the best we can do currently - and add "prebibisect" to whiteboard.
>>
>>  Done: <https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/index.**
> php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&**diff=73158&oldid=73157<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&diff=73158&oldid=73157>
> >.
>
>
>  2. Rearrange the page just a bit - I think logically
>> a) Intro
>> b) Limitations
>> c) Download stuff
>> d) how to bibisect (currently in a different location)
>> e) Bug that need bibisected
>> f) troubleshooting
>>
>>
> Done: <https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/index.**
> php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&**diff=73146&oldid=73144<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&diff=73146&oldid=73144>
> >
>
>
>> I think only one change there but it makes more sense intrinsically to me.
>>
>> 3. Another minor thing that I see is in "versions" it says bibisect40bugs
>> for bugs that need bibisecting - as far as I know every bug that needs
>> bibisected is "bibisectrequest" - I haven't seen the 4.0 and 4.0+ (daily)
>> differentiated - perhaps I missed something though :)
>>
>>
> BZ shows no bugs with “bibisect40” in either the Whiteboard or
> Keywords.  I changed it:
> <https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/index.**
> php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&**diff=73155&oldid=73151<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&diff=73155&oldid=73151>
> >
>
> I remember from June that the linked bugzilla queries use a baffling
> veriety of selection criteria.  Do you have an idea about whether
> there is a reason for this variety?  Or is it something that “just
> happened”?
>
>
>
>> Thanks Terry for tackling this how to wiki - it has a lot going on there
>> so the cleaner and simpler we make it the better.
>>
>>
> Hah!  We haven't even started on the witheboard statuses and
> prescribed comments for reporting the results.  The page already has a
> lot of instructions conditioned by the tester's choice of bibisect
> download.  I only foresee that getting worse: there are three bibisect
> versions, and each can be unhelpful when the regression is off either
> end.  (Yes, a regression newer than the 40+ version is plausible.  I
> went weeks without updating my download after an attempted update hung
> for days showing an ETA of a hundred odd days.)  Among the unseccssful
> cases, only the determination that a regression is older than the OVA
> or 40 repositories marks the end of the search.  How much should we
> try to track in the whiteboard status?
>
>
>  If you're busy or just don't want to do it just let me know - I didn't
>> want to be editing over you :)
>>
>
> I am happy to continue.  Knowing that someone is checking my work
> frees me to make bigger changes.
>
> Thanks,
> Terry,
>
>
good job on updating the page Terry .. I just got finishing reading over
the content.
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Mas
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