Hello team,
I'm back from the OpenOffice.org Conference in Lyon, France an I would
like to give you some impressions regarding the QA session/bug hunting
party that happened last monday. This was the first day of the
conference and in the morning the conference started with the
engineering steering commitee and the community council meeting. In the
afternoon we had two hours to make the QA session/bug hunting party
happen. People came from different countries/native language teams like
Japan, Germany, Holland, USA, just to name some of them, thus it was a
very good mix and the session wasn't too crowded - this was positive as
it gave us the chance to work together. After all it would have been
great to have more time for such an event in the future.
André Schnabel and myself gave a short introduction about the QA
project, the QA team, QA work, Issue statistics (mostly those that are
'oooqa' keyword related) and information about two QA related events (QA
and localization meeting in Essen and OOo Camp that happened in Dietz)
that happened here in Germany. Tora from the Japanese team and Simon
Brouwer from the Dutch team showed interest to have a QA related event
in Japan/Holland. After that introduction we jumped into the quick
links page on our QA homepage (http://qa.openoffice.org/issuelinks.html)
and started to discuss issues together to get a feeling how to work on
issues and how to get things reproduced. I believe that the attendees
got more insight into working on issues and these people got interested
into the project.
When looking at QA related things there were at least two conference
sessions that need to be mentioned as well. Thorsten Bosbach and Joerg
Sievers gave an introduction into the testtool on wednesday morning.
Maybe Thorsten or Jogi will write something here about that session.
Very interesting was the session "What open source lovers wants?" on
thursday afternoon where my collegue Erwin Tenhumberg gave insights into
the OpenOffice.org surveys. An interesting sidenote was that from all
900000 attendees about 75000 people showed their interest into doing a
contribution by helping within the QA project :)
Wednesday noon André Schnabel, Thorsten Bosbach, Joerg Sievers, Laurent
Godard and myself met to discuss coordinating efforts to make a testtool
results web application happen that was planned as a Google Summer of
Code project but unfortunately got rejected. As far as I discussed this
together with André, he wants to write a bit more about this meeting.
Overall this was a very interesting and successful conference and from
QA perspective our biggest effort within the last year was to get native
language teams interested into working together with the QA team. And
when looking the statistics within the last year the QA team did a
phantastic work.
For those interested into details about the conference, here's the schedule:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2006/schedule.html
Kind regards, Joost
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