[Libreoffice-qa] ping to retest old bugs

[Tommy]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:18:44 +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen  
<bjoern.michaelsen at canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 04:03:47AM +0200, Tommy wrote:
>> "your bug report has shown no activity in the last 6 months. newer
>> LibO releases with hundred of bugifixes and new features have been
>> releases meanwhile, so please retest with current LibO release
>> (4.3.2.2) and give feedback of the actual status of the bug. if bug
>> is gone set status to RESOLVED WORKSFORME. if bug is still present
>> leave status UNCHANGED and drop a new comment telling the LibO
>> version where you retested and reproduce it"
>
> Whatever you guys decide on this -- the text definitively need a hint  
> like:
> "Regardless of what you find in newer versions, the VERSION fields  
> should stay
> at the _first_ version that showed the buggy behaviour."
>
> Otherwise this will create more work than it will remove. ;)
>
> Best,
>
> Bjoern


good point Bjoern. it will be done.
however keep in mind that a "do not change version field" alert is already  
given in Bugzilla when a user changes version field to a more recent  
version... despite this alert the users keep changing it since they do not  
pay attention to those messages. :-(