On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:39 PM, <dk...@torfree.net> wrote:
> Just for convenience, my changes so far today are > <https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/index.** > php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&**diff=73158&oldid=73085<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&diff=73158&oldid=73085> > >. > They go beyond the changes I mention in-line. > > > Quoting "Joel Madero" <jmadero....@gmail.com>: > > On 07/28/2013 12:00 PM, > libreoffice-qa-request@lists.**freedesktop.org<libreoffice-qa-requ...@lists.freedesktop.org>wrote: >> >>> I have added some instructions to deal with tags latest and oldest in >>> the daily bibisect repo >>> <https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/index.** >>> php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&**diff=73085&oldid=73084<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&diff=73085&oldid=73084> >>> >. >>> Will you be good enough to look over the changes? >>> >>> Of course, if the repo came with these tags laready in place, that >>> whole section of the page could go away. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Terry. >>> >> I'll take a look - we've been talking quite a bit about cleaning this >> page and I see that you're adding and cleaning it up. Was wondering if >> you'd be willing (if not let me know and I'll take a stab at it) to do a >> couple things to the page. >> > > I will be glad to continue hacking at the page. > > >> 1. Can you add a note that says if the bibisect shows the bug the entire >> time (ie. it's prebibisect) to mark the version as 3.5beta0 in FDO - this >> is the best we can do currently - and add "prebibisect" to whiteboard. >> >> Done: <https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/index.** > php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&**diff=73158&oldid=73157<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&diff=73158&oldid=73157> > >. > > > 2. Rearrange the page just a bit - I think logically >> a) Intro >> b) Limitations >> c) Download stuff >> d) how to bibisect (currently in a different location) >> e) Bug that need bibisected >> f) troubleshooting >> >> > Done: <https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/index.** > php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&**diff=73146&oldid=73144<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&diff=73146&oldid=73144> > > > > >> I think only one change there but it makes more sense intrinsically to me. >> >> 3. Another minor thing that I see is in "versions" it says bibisect40bugs >> for bugs that need bibisecting - as far as I know every bug that needs >> bibisected is "bibisectrequest" - I haven't seen the 4.0 and 4.0+ (daily) >> differentiated - perhaps I missed something though :) >> >> > BZ shows no bugs with “bibisect40” in either the Whiteboard or > Keywords. I changed it: > <https://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/index.** > php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&**diff=73155&oldid=73151<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=QA%2FHowToBibisect&diff=73155&oldid=73151> > > > > I remember from June that the linked bugzilla queries use a baffling > veriety of selection criteria. Do you have an idea about whether > there is a reason for this variety? Or is it something that “just > happened”? > > > >> Thanks Terry for tackling this how to wiki - it has a lot going on there >> so the cleaner and simpler we make it the better. >> >> > Hah! We haven't even started on the witheboard statuses and > prescribed comments for reporting the results. The page already has a > lot of instructions conditioned by the tester's choice of bibisect > download. I only foresee that getting worse: there are three bibisect > versions, and each can be unhelpful when the regression is off either > end. (Yes, a regression newer than the 40+ version is plausible. I > went weeks without updating my download after an attempted update hung > for days showing an ETA of a hundred odd days.) Among the unseccssful > cases, only the determination that a regression is older than the OVA > or 40 repositories marks the end of the search. How much should we > try to track in the whiteboard status? > > > If you're busy or just don't want to do it just let me know - I didn't >> want to be editing over you :) >> > > I am happy to continue. Knowing that someone is checking my work > frees me to make bigger changes. > > Thanks, > Terry, > > good job on updating the page Terry .. I just got finishing reading over the content. -- ---- Mas
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