Re: Volunteer request
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Nayana Pande pande.nay...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, I hold a diploma in Software Testing and want to contribute in testing OOO. Please let me know where do I start from. Hi please download the source code and try to follow the build guide. That way you will be able to test our milestones. http://openoffice.apache.org/source.html using the SVN: svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk aoo http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide -- Thanks and Regards, Nayana Pande -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org
Re: Introducing Steve Culver
Hi Mickey, this is a mailing list. That means, that a mail to the list will be sent to all subscribers of the list. Therefore it is essential, that posters use an informative subject, so that everyone can easily decide, whether the mail is relevant for him. Kind regards Regina Mickey Hanson schrieb: How does that involve me? Mickey Hanson On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Steve Culver steve_cul...@yahoo.comwrote: This is my introduction eMail as specified in How to Get Involved. I've been using OO for quite some time now. There was a period when I tried LibreOffice, but that wasn't a successful experiment. Most of my time is spent in Writer or Calc, but I've attempted some things in Base and would like to do a lot more. I make my living writing apps in Access, and I'd love to be as proficient in Base as I am in Access. To make my first QA observation, I've noted that ever since I've used OO, when the spellchecker changes the last word in a sentence, it deletes the period. I'd like to see that fixed. Steve Follow Howell Davidson's Adventures at stevenRculver.com
Re: Introduction to QA, Level 3
Hi Alan, Alan Wilson schrieb: Good morning Rob, I have completed Intro to QA Level 3. Do you recommend using VirtualBox for testing? It depends on what you will test. In some cases it is sufficient to make an administrative installation and edit the bootstrap-file. But when you will e.g. test the installation process itself, you need a system, which is separated from your daily work system. Other examples are testing several desktop environments like small screens, high dpi, dark desktop themes. Kind regards Regina
Re: Volunteer request
Hi Nayana, to get a start, you can use http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/index.html and later on follow the link Introduction to QA on that page. Kind regards Regina Nayana Pande schrieb: Hi All, I hold a diploma in Software Testing and want to contribute in testing OOO. Please let me know where do I start from.
Re: Introduction to QA, Level 3
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Alan Wilson linuxlover...@hotmail.com wrote: Good morning Rob, I have completed Intro to QA Level 3. Do you recommend using VirtualBox for testing? Hi Alan, You don't need a virtual PC environment to start QA work, but it can be very useful. I've used VirtualBox and VMWare. The advantage of a virtualized test environment is the easy ability to switch from from configuration to another. So my main test machine runs Windows 7 64-bit. But I have virtual machines for clean installs of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. I also have virtual machines with current and older versions of OpenOffice installed. So I can quickly bring up a machine with any of these configurations to confirm a bug report. I also have a range of Linux VM's. But note that most bugs we receive are functionality-related and not dependent on the fine details of the configuration. For those bugs any stable installation of the latest OpenOffice is fine. But for install/upgrade-related or platform-dependent bugs, virtual machines are a huge time-saver. Another benefit is that this isolates your test environment from your working environment. This might not be a big deal if you use a PC only for testing. But if, like me, you do email and general work on the same machine you testing, using virtual machines is a good idea. For example, I never need to worry about instabilities in a snapshot build of OpenOffice causing problems for my working environment, or causing document corruption, etc. Regards, -Rob Thank you, Alan
Re: Apache Open Office Volunteer
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Giorgio Rossi g.ro...@chaints.com wrote: Hi to all i'm the technical director of Champs Group , a group of small industries involved in automation and quality control I'm grad bnuclea eng and PhD at politecnico of Milano I would like to partecipate to your volunteer team for debugging of new version of open Office Hello Giorgio, Welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project! Have you see our New Volunteer Orientation materials? You can find them here: http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/index.html You should review the Level 1 and Level 2 modules but focus mainly on the Intro to QA modules: http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-qa.html One of the tasks in the Intro to QA module will be to create a Bugzilla account for yourself. When you do that, let me know your userid so I can add you to the qa-team group. If you have any questions, please let me know. Regards, -Rob best regards -- Giorgio Rossi Champs int. service srl - Via Tonale 4 - 20021 Baranzate (MI) tel :0039-0238209546 fax 0039-0236750821 mail to: g.ro...@chaints.com
Re: New QA Volunteer
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Mickey Hanson mckyh...@gmail.com wrote: I’d like to introduce myself, but I don’t know what your asking for. Please send me a list of questions and I’ll be happy to answer all of them. Hi Mickey, Most new volunteers introduce themselves informally, usually telling things like: - your preferred name if not obvious from your email address - where you are from - general level of familiarity with using OpenOffice - any prior experience with software testing - any other fun facts you want to share Since this is a mailing list, the posts we make get sent to all other QA volunteers on the project. So this is a good way to introduce yourself to the team. Regards, -Rob Mickey Hanson
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Hi ! My name is Raffaello Palandri, I'm 43 and I'm an IT manager, currently seeking for a new role; now I'd like to help in QA testing in OpenOffice. Best, Raffaello
Re: Introducing Steve Culver
On 12/01/2013 Steve Culver wrote: To make my first QA observation, I've noted that ever since I've used OO, when the spellchecker changes the last word in a sentence, it deletes the period. I'd like to see that fixed. Welcome, Steve! Actually I can't reproduce this bug with version 3.4.1. 1) New Writer document, language set to English 2) I type This text contains a wrong worrd. Testing. 3) I run the spellchecker (F7), it suggests to replace worrd with word, I click Change and the period is preserved. Regards, Andrea.
Re: New QA Volunteer
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Daisy Ray rayda...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My name is Daisy , I have been using Open Office for my day to day tasks. I saw this notice on Openoffice.org website and would like to help out as a QA person. I live in NYC and have experience with finance and software. I am familiar with Windows , Linux and am going through the introduction to QA Module on openoffice.org . Thank you, daisy Welcome in Daisy, happy to know you want to contribute, can you please tell us more about your skills. Do you have any development skill? As a power user you are well underway to help us our efforts to confirm bugs and test development versions for possible showstopper bug. -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org
