Hello QA-Members,
from 15.-16.07. Mechtilde and Jacqueline had some interesting meetings
with the SUN QA-team in Hamburg. We wanted to talk about actual
QA-related topics and meet the people face-to-face.
First of all, many thanks to Stefan Baltzer and Joost Andrae for the
organisation of the meetings and their help.
On Wednesday we started with meetings about writer and base. We decided
to form a small project within the Writer-team (starting with Oliver
(od), Michael (mru) and Jacqueline) which handles actual issues about
numbering/bullets/outline. If someone else is interested to join, please
send us a mail! Mechtilde had an interesting talk with some Base-members
about the target group and the future of base. We spoke with Martin (md)
and Ivo (ihi) about some release- and l10n-related issues and talked
with Oliver (os) about Writer.
On thursday morning we started a big round with most of the
QA-team-members and talked about actual bottlenecks and possibilities
how the community can be integrated better.
We talked about that we need more specialists with knowledge limited to
individual office functionalities. Help is especially needed in the Calc
team: If someone is an expert for e.g. data pilot or chart or something
else, please tell us! We will have some cws-builds ready for testing soon.
Specialists in a different area are needed for the framework team. It is
really difficult to confirm distribution and system integration related
problems. So we need people, who can test in special environment e.g.
Windows 7, Vista 64bit, Fedora, Mandriva and many other. If you do your
daily work on such a system, please tell us, too!
Another topic on that day was the quality of extensions. We think that
it would be helpful to set up a qa-process for extensions to avoid
problems e.g. version conflicts. Maybe we can mark tested extensions in
a special way, after they are tested.
After that Jacqueline talked with Matthias (mba) and Hasan (hi) about
Writer Issues, especially about the future of mail merge and what is
needed to improve this feature. Mechtilde spoke again with Martin and
Ivo about releasing OOo and with Thomas (tm) about framework-qa and
problems with the different distributions and where community is needed
to help there.
Thanks again to all for those interesting and helpful meetings!
Mechtilde & Jacqueline
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