Dear Mr. Weir Please assign me reports to confirm. I use Debian x64 and prefer Writer and Calc. Thank you.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013, at 18:26, Rob Weir wrote: > Welcome again to all QA volunteers, New and Old! > > If you received this note, that means you are subscribed to the > mailing list. That is good. It also means that you've received a lot > of posts from me in recent days. Sorry about that. I do try to greet > each new volunteer personally, and since most new volunteers have > similar questions this leads to a lot of repetitive posts. > > As we all get up to speed to the QA tasks, we'll spend more time > discussing the actually QA work. And at some point others will feel > comfortable welcoming our new volunteers as well. Remember, there is > nothing special about me. If you know the answer to a question, or > can point a new volunteer to the Orientation Modules, then please do. > Recruiting and training new volunteers is ongoing activity for any > thriving open source project. Indeed, the same is true for any > thriving corporation as well. > > So where do we stand with the QA for OpenOffice? > > 1) There is a "respin" of AOO 3.4.1 in the works, planned for later > this month. It does not have any code changes, but does have a set of > additional new translations: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, > Polish, Basque, Asturian and Scottish Gaelic. > > Since the code is unchanged, it is not requiring any functional > testing by the QA team. But the localization team is reviewing the > binaries to verify that the menus, dialogs, language tools (spell > checking), etc., are working properly. If you are fluent in any of > these 8 languages and want to help with this final review, please send > a note to the localization mailing list at: > l...@openoffice.apache.org. > > 2) AOO 4.0 -- We're still waiting for a developer snapshot release > that has the UI features added. When that comes out we can test it. > But not yet. > > 3) Backlog of unconfirmed defect reports. We have 2984 unconfirmed > defects, some dating back several years. This is an improvement over > last week when we had 3016. But it is still a cause for concern that > we have so many. Why? Although the severe bugs, the blocking, > show-stopper bugs will always get attention, since they are so > prominent, the more common place bugs, the ones that effect the user's > daily experience and their perception of "quality", can get lost in > the noise if we're not keeping up with new user bug reports, reviewing > them and confirming them in a timely fashion. > > Now obviously this backlog was not created overnight. It is years in > the making. And we won't eliminate it over night. But I'd love to > make slow & steady progress to get this number down and keep it down. > Twenty volunteers doing ten defect reports a week can eliminate this > backlog before AOO 4.0 ships and we get flooded with new bug reports. > > That is why I am encouraging new volunteers to help with confirming > defect reports. I'm doing the same myself. If you have not already > been assigned a batch to work with, and want to help, let me know what > platform(s) you can test on, and any special requests (I like Calc, > anything but Base, etc.) and I'll get you started. Or feel free to > run the following query in Bugzilla and assign yourself bugs that look > interesting: > > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamed&namedcmd=unconfirmed-defects&list_id=41761 > > (A bug that is currently assigned to "iss...@openoffice.apache.org" or > assigned to an address ending in openoffice.org is currently > unassigned) > > Thanks everyone for your hard work! > > -Rob
