[Libreoffice-qa] What should I do with a bug, where I got a file to test and can confirm it, but are not allowed to attach the file to the bug?

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi Thomas,

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Thomas Hackert <thackert at nexgo.de> wrote:
> Hello @ll,
> I stumbled upon bug #77330
> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77330),
>
> I had searched at
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/FindTheExpert to find out, if I
> could find a dev, to whom I could send this zipped files,

This is more or less the only way in such a case, when the sample
should not be made public for whatever reason.

> but I am
> not sure, if this is right way. As I can partly confirm this bug, I
> have added my comment to the bug
> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77330#c2).

That comment is written in a rather unclear fashion. It misses what a)
actually refers to. From context one can guess that those are the
versions that you can reproduce with.

And also still unclear what "discus" is, as in the crippled screenshot
I cannot see anything that resembles a disc/round object/discus.

While you speculate earlier that it is the white bar with the black
outline, you write "... does not show the "discus" (or maybe better
disc?)" - I neither see something that looks like a floppy disk or
harddrive, nor anything round. So what is the bug about? I assume the
white bar.

> And now? As
> I am not a dev, I will not be able to fix it ... :( The master
> document in question depends on 100 ODT files with pictures and the
> like, so it would be hard to create one master document with that
> amount of ODTs (or better say: I would not have the time for it the
> next months) ... :(

The crux is not to create a new set of documents, but to trim down the
existing ones to show the problem.

i.e. first replace all documents with a single one (i.e. copy one
document and name it like the others) - this is easily done, but of
course doesn't guarantee that the problem still shows.
But if it does still show, then that does already help a lot.

ciao
Christian