[Libreoffice-qa] LibreOffice bugs fixed in a newer version

[Robinson Tryon]

Hi all,

In the last QA Meeting we chatted briefly about the case of bugs that
have been fixed in master (or Fresh) but still exist in Fresh or
Still:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79289

There's a whiteboard tag that (kind of?) relates to this problem, but
appears to have a much smaller scope:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Fields/Whiteboard/Advanced#fixedInMaster

After chatting with the devs to gauge their opinions, we got some
basic feedback:
* Once a bug is fixed in master, it's considered fixed
* Use bibisect to identify which commit fixed a problem
* Devs more willing to backport small commits & easy cases
* Anyone can push a backport to gerrit
* Let the original dev know about the desire to backport

I've made a short note about backporting here, under the documentation
for the sub-status 'WORKSFORME':
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Fields/Status/RESOLVED#Fixed_in_a_newer_version

Feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
--R

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Robinson Tryon
QA Engineer - The Document Foundation
LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald
qubit at libreoffice.org