[Libreoffice-qa] ping to retest old bugs

[Joel Madero]

On 10/22/2014 09:58 PM, Tommy wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 07:18:47 +0200, Robinson Tryon
> <bishop.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Tommy <barta at quipo.it> wrote:
>>> For 900 (2y 6m) --> 81 bugs
>>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&f1=days_elapsed&limit=0&list_id=481870&o1=greaterthan&order=bug_id%20DESC&product=LibreOffice&query_format=advanced&v1=900
>>>
>>>
>>> so a ping retest mail campaign could be at the moment tested just
>>> with the
>>> older subsets (730d or 900d) to not generate an excessive spam.
>>
>> Running the oldest set of 81 bugs would be an interesting test, just
>> to see what percentage of bug reporters return to add a comment to the
>> bug.
>> ...
>
> I'm pretty sure that there's tons of old NEW bugs that have turned
> into WORKSFORME bugs during LibO development... take a look at this
> list: http://snipurl.com/29d9hu5
>
> these are 24 old bugs that user Beluga (I think's he's one of the new
> faces in QA) retested last week and now are gone.
>
> I wonder how many of those exist in the 7K list of the NEW bugs.
I actually ran some tests and pinged users in this category - terribly
low response rate :-/


Best,
Joel

P.S. You can query the qa-admin account for comments and see the bugs
that I touch with that account to get an idea.