Hello Sophie, *,

Sophie schrieb:
> Hi Jacqueline, Mechtilde, all,
> Jacqueline Rahemipour wrote:
>> 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.

>> 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.
> 
> About those discussions, did you came with some conclusions and further
> actions?

We want to look for people with interests in special parts of
Openoffice.org and interested to collect the affected issues in this part.

>> 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.
> 
> Do you have a list of the functionnalities looking for a specialist?

We want to coordinate this possibilities with a progress in fixing the
issues in this range.

> Also is there different levels of knowledge you are interested by?
>>
>> 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!
> 
> I have difficulties to see how this could be organised. If for example,
> in the QA FR team, we have members on those systems, how can they help?
> By confirming issues, doing special tests,...?

...and collecting the issues in this special range.

Then they can help to test the CWS builds and the master after the
integration of the CWS(s).
>>
>> 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.
> 
> This is a good idea. Have you already decided on a follow up on this?

I think this depends on which extension the potentiell testers use.
>>
>> 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!
> 
> Thanks for your feedback, it looks very interesting :)
Kind regards

Mechtilde


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