Hi Thorsten,

On Wednesday 19 May 2010, Thorsten Ziehm wrote:

> I couldn't accept (as a member of the QA project on OOo) that we
> have to spend resources of the OOo project to making QA* in OOo
> derivatives which doesn't spend resources for this project and
> which doesn't contribute their code.

Sure, understood, but we are talking about go-oo; go-oo developers contribute 
code up-stream.

> The resources will be missing 
> for making Quality Assurance for the OOo (vanilla) and will lead
> to a worser quality of all OOo derivatives. This isn't acceptable
> for me, perhaps for you too.

I am afraid I did not explain my proposal well enough, sorry for that :-(

Currently, when you, as a QA person, find out that a bug is not present in the 
up-stream version, you just close it as invalid, which helps no-one - the 
reporter is just confused, you have to spend time explaining why it is 
invalid, and go-oo maintainers do not learn about that bug, which - as 
Charles and Mechtilde pointed out - might in the end affect the perception of 
the entire OOo.

I would like to ask you to try the alias solution I proposed.  I have just 
created a [email protected] user; if you find out that a bug is 
invalid in up-stream, but the reporter talks about a particular Linux distro 
(openSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, ...), just reassign it to 
[email protected], instead of setting it as 'invalid'.  The 
notification will go to our mailing list ([email protected] at 
the moment, and I asked for a dedicated one), and no other work for you - we 
will take care of the rest.

Do you think it might work for you, please?

Thank you,
Kendy

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