Re: [Libreoffice-qa] what happened to Reiner?

2013-07-11 Thread bfo
Tommy wrote >> Retiered some time ago [can't find thread]. Very sad > Ok, I was afraid that he left the project... > anyway he did a very good job here and everybody will welcome him if he > comes back. He did: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Libreoffice-qa-Role-of-the-QA-calls-tp405230

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Stagnant NEEDINFO bugs

2013-01-27 Thread bfo
Hi! My proposal: e) a reminder at major version + automated closing of bug report after first major.maintenance version if a reminder is last comment (which means no activity) This will give bugs cleaning every 6 months. Not a bad deal... Most of bugs in NEEDINFO state are dead ends. Reporters in

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Minutes - QA Call 01/11/2013

2013-01-22 Thread bfo
jmadero wrote > One of the main issues is that FDO doesn't allow you to go from RESOLVED > - WORKSFORME back to UNCONFIRMED. Hi! Not true. RESOLVED WORKSFORME>UNCONFIRMED transition is possible with current fdo status workflow. Just checked that moment ago myself. See this bug activity: https://

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Minutes - QA Call 01/11/2013

2013-01-21 Thread bfo
jmadero wrote > If you mark a bug as WFM, you are unable to go directly back to > UNCONFIRMED - which for me > is strange, I understand if it's marked as FIXED but WFM shouldn't block > you from doing UNCONFIRMED again. Hi! Are you sure about that? See this bug activity table: https://bugs.freed

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Bug Status NEW but Assigned to Someone - Please Change

2013-01-16 Thread bfo
Pedro wrote > There is no point in triaging again. The QA work is done. Now only Devs > can fix or don't fix confirmed bugs. > Assigning to someone is not a good idea. It seems like that person is > going to act on the problem when in fact he/she didn't select the issue. David Tardon wrote > I th

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Bug Status NEW but Assigned to Someone - Please Change

2013-01-15 Thread bfo
jmadero wrote > Rainer, I'll start the conversation on QA list shortly, it might move to > the next call but I think there is room for improvement here. Hi! In LibreOffice product we have: - more than 4000 bugs in NEW state - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/reports.cgi?product=LibreOffice&datasets=NE

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [libreoffice-design] Send Feedback Option

2012-11-29 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote > I wonder - Mozilla have done a lot of this work before us - can we > re-use their backend infrastructure and share development work on that ? > it'd suck to re-invent all their data analytics / query processing > etc. ? Hi! They are friendly people. All of this is on

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [libreoffice-design] Send Feedback Option

2012-11-29 Thread bfo
Stefan Knorr (Astron)-2 wrote > here's a link to an HTML mockup: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/87946285/libreoffice/feedback/feedback-page.html Hi! Did you think about setting up LibreOffice Feedback page using Mozilla software? It's code is available at github: https://github.com/mozilla/input.mozill

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Stats I plotted + Getting rid of bugs - appealing

2012-11-03 Thread bfo
Rainer Bielefeld-2 wrote > If we would have 10 people who do an extra review per day for > the Bugs from Florians queries, we would be through before next spring. Hi! It is possible, but I am concerned about another thing. Look at this chart: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/reports.cgi?product=Lib

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] minutes of the QA Call tomorrow, Tuesday 1300UTC

2012-10-31 Thread bfo
Sophie Gautier wrote >> I would propose to use QA Contact field for this purpose, at least when >> in >> the processing (translation, gathering more details) phase. > If it could be the qa@fr list, then it's ok. Hi! This have to be Bugzilla registered account. If there is one for qa@fr, then it c

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] minutes of the QA Call tomorrow, Tuesday 1300UTC

2012-10-29 Thread bfo
Sophie Gautier wrote > I've discussed the process with our FR team and they are ok to handle it. Hi! Great to hear that! All we need now is a list of people, by language, who can be cc'ed to work on the bug when it has non English summary and seems to be a valid report at first sight. Sophie Gaut

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] minutes of the QA Call tomorrow, Tuesday 1300UTC

2012-10-23 Thread bfo
Bjoern Michaelsen wrote > - in theory, it is possible to make the BSA file bugs without the > reporter registering (Petr/Bjoern) > - without keeping the original reporter in the loop, bug report > quality will only get worse Hi. Anonymous bug reports would be more or less useless, unless

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] New Easy Hack Tracking System -- Developer Input Required

2012-10-18 Thread bfo
Hi! Recently I stumbled upon two open source projects (sources are available on github) to get more volunteers by their interests: - in bugs department - see http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/ - in the development area - see http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/ Those are very simple sites, where you

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] LDTP now works for Linux, Win & Mac

2012-10-13 Thread bfo
Thorsten Behrens wrote > Hi there, > seen this today - > > http://nagappanal.blogspot.de/2012/10/ann-automated-testing-on-mac-atomac-101.html > Did anyone have experience (positive & negative) with that tool? > Cheers, > -- Thorsten Hi. See http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Cobra-WinLDTP-Autom

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Should we use the "QA Contact" field?

2012-09-28 Thread bfo
Rainer Bielefeld-2 wrote > I don't think so, and I don't see any benefit what we can have from > adding people there. Hi. Adding user (by herself) to QA Contact field would indicate, that this QA person is actively working on the bug and is responsible either for (examples): - gathering more info

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Reporting Ignorant User on FDO?

2012-09-28 Thread bfo
Hi. If you do not like the f-word (English profanities in general), then Profanivore extension (http://bzr.mozilla.org/bmo/4.2/files/head:/extensions/Profanivore/) could be adapted and installed in Bugzilla. Best regards. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Lib

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] bibisect fro windows

2012-08-24 Thread bfo
Rainer Bielefeld-2 wrote > > I will try at QA weekend. > Hi. You could use this Impress regression introduced as faulty comment commit as a test case and example. Thread: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/master-regression-PPT-load-tp4002760.html Best regards. -- View this message in cont

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] LibreOffice code coverage

2012-08-23 Thread bfo [via Document Foundation Mail Archive]
Michael Stahl-2 wrote > >> Did anyone make such report for LibreOffice codebase? > no, unfortunately we don't know how the unit test coverage ranks exactly > on a scale from "far too low" to "infinitesimal" :-/ > Hi. Thanks to work of John Smith such report is available at http://dev-builds.l

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-21 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote > >> There is one already - Bugzilla. I think devs should be teached how to >> use >> Bugzilla more. > :-) Sure - but a developer's daily interaction involves using many bug > trackers - from LibreOffice, to SUSE, RedHat, Deb-bugs, Apache Issues, > etc. having a single

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Moztrap, some questions

2012-08-16 Thread bfo
Hi. tl;dr, but IMHO ideal localized MozTrap system could be designed this way: Tests should be written using some kind of special text editor with autocomplete, in generic language (or based on English) using UI strings and then those strings substituted to the language of choice (not only French).

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-14 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote > > Of course the filters are tested; there were -zero- unit tests for the > RTF filter before we started, it is now perhaps -the- most unit tested > filter that there is - every bug fix Miklos makes has a nice unit test: > better - since the code is shared, that is un

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] top #n bugs tracking ...

2012-08-13 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote > > So - I like the idea of highlighting a small set of the most critical > bugs each-week - say five; and having them linked in the ESC minutes > with a small write-up. Of course that would need to be generated by QA. > The bit that is unworkable in the above is

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-13 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote > > The reason I graph regressions each week is to try to add focus there; > if you can think of another more encouraging way - that'd be > appreciated. > Hi. Unfortunately those graphs are discouraging in many ways. Especially if one thinks about upgrading LO... Mic

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-11 Thread bfo
Jochen wrote > >> We need a strategy with a positive, encouraging motto for the developers. > Hi. Strategy is simple - the time has come to manage bugs better. I could be mistaken, it is still difficult to me to gather informations from all LO resources, but I think that today some QA people are

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-10 Thread bfo
Bjoern Michaelsen wrote > > I dont think discussing this on a mailing list will help us find the > silver > bullet to the problems you describe. However, you are most invited to just > us > on the next QA Call on August, 23rd 2012 1400UTC, discussing these topics > on > the phone is usually a lot

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-10 Thread bfo
Rainer Bielefeld-2 wrote > > For some of these bugs simply the Bug description still is not > satisfying so that I can understand developers that they pick bugs where > they can start fixing with out much additional preliminary research. > Hi! Sometimes I am not even sure that devs use Bugzil

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-10 Thread bfo
Jochen wrote > > IMHO has bfo some right. But: > 1) "bankruptcy of this system" is a little bit exaggerated. > Hi! Not at all. After reviewing >400 bugs (and counting) I could double 3.5MAB numbers in an instant. The main problem is that MAB is a battlefield for use

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-09 Thread bfo
Timur_LOL wrote > > It is clear that at the beginning bugs list should contain only bugs > which are *new* in LibreOffice 3.6, but at some time, while some fixes > from MAB 3.5 are integrated in the code, there is a decision on what > to do with the remaining unfixed bugs from a branch (3.5). >

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] minutes of ESC call ...

2012-08-02 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote > > * QA update (Rainer) > + new bug report page - with search for duplicates thanks to Tollef > Hi. Nice that Potential Duplicates has been enabled, the same for usernames autocomplete. Whining could be enabled also. Maybe bugs.freedesktop.org administrators are goin

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Freedesktop down ??

2012-08-01 Thread bfo
Florian Reisinger wrote > > Somehow it seems to me that Bugzilla is down (With some circumstances > only...) http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/862641-81201261840PM > Hi. Seems it is updated to 4.0.7 now and blazing fast atm... Best regards. -- View this message in context: http://nabble

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] LibreOffice code coverage

2012-07-27 Thread bfo [via Document Foundation Mail Archive]
julien2412 wrote > > There's a tracker about coverage, see > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38840 > For the moment, no one seemed to be on it (perhaps I'm wrong). > Hi. What a discovery! I have found some scripts already in the codebase http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/s

[Libreoffice-qa] Interoperability of LibreOffice and Microsoft Office 2013

2012-07-17 Thread bfo [via Document Foundation Mail Archive]
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[Libreoffice-qa] LibreOffice code coverage

2012-07-11 Thread bfo [via Document Foundation Mail Archive]
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Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Crash screencasts

2012-07-05 Thread bfo
Michael Stahl-2 wrote > > i'd *love* to have something like this > Mozilla crash database/web UI running for LO as well (the Sun Hamburg > internal crash report web UI was a complete joke in comparison). > [...] > until that happens we'll have to make do with Linux distribution tools > like ABRT

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Bug transfer from AOOo Bugzilla to LibO Bugzilla

2012-06-29 Thread bfo
Hi. In regards to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51352#c3 I think that imported bugs which are in RESOLVED FIXED state should get some kind of notification by a triagger. LO devs, with the current backlog, should not "waste" time for bugs, which are already fixed in the other codebase

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Bug transfer from AOOo Bugzilla to LibO Bugzilla

2012-06-28 Thread bfo
Rainer Bielefeld-2 wrote > > Can anybody tell my, why query [1] only finds Bug 51147 and not also > most of > Bug 50819 Bug 50190 Bug 50880 Bug 50488 Bug 50930 > Bug 50974 > Bug 50987 Bug 50994 Bug 51001 Bug 36991 Bug 51021 > Bug 51072

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Bug transfer from AOOo Bugzilla to LibO Bugzilla

2012-06-27 Thread bfo
Rainer Bielefeld-2 wrote > > may be you find the time to check and transfer (if necessary) some bugs > from AOOo to LibO as I did with [1] to [2]? Some "promising" Bugs I > found with this [3] query. "[From Symphony]" can help to find more Bugs > also interesting for LibO. > Hi. Simple Summa

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Cobra - WinLDTP Automation

2012-06-27 Thread bfo
Michael Stahl-2 wrote > >> Linux version is LDTP, Windows version is Cobra and Mac version is PyATOM >> (Work in progress). > can all of these execute the same tests? > surely writing tests 3 times is not the way to go. > "With LDTP and WinLDTP, the script API part will be the same. The only pl

[Libreoffice-qa] Crash screencasts

2012-06-25 Thread bfo
Hi. Very interesting screencasts available at air mozilla: The Life Cycle of a Firefox Crash https://air.mozilla.org/crash-life-cycl/ Mozilla CrashKill Investigation and Analysis https://air.mozilla.org/crashkill/ Hope LibreOffice own crash reporter will be enabled soon... Best regards. -- View th

[Libreoffice-qa] Cobra - WinLDTP Automation

2012-06-25 Thread bfo
Hi. I stumbled upon Cobra – WinLDTP, Windows version of Linux Desktop Testing Project open sourced by VMWare recently. Using this tool, the GUI functionality of an application can be tested in Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8 development release. Libre/OpenOffice is mentioned. Did anybody

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Cleaning bug list

2012-06-21 Thread bfo [via Document Foundation Mail Archive]
at all. As I am getting into this more and more the time has come to ask - where I should sign to become QA member (level 1 :))? > PS: If you reply, please try to configure your mail client, so it puts > some prefix "> " before the old text and put your answer inline.

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] crasher bugs and most annoying bugs generated by automation [was: 3.5.3rc1 win32 / debug package ...]

2012-06-04 Thread bfo
Bjoern Michaelsen wrote > > Crash counter (search for libreoffice-core): > https://errors.ubuntu.com/ > Open LibreOffice crasher bugs by most affected users: > Open LibreOffice crasher bugs by bug heat: > This s very cool. Question - why I have mostly "page not find" errors when I click in the

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] How to improve our Bug tracking system

2012-05-25 Thread bfo
Rainer Bielefeld-2 wrote > > I now want to start to collect ideas how we can make a big step > improving our (Bugzilla) Bug tracking system. The goal is that after we > will have finished work (end 2012?) > Hi. You should check bugzilla.mozilla.org. They have implemented a lot of extensions a