[Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-08 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, So time to prepare bug hunt session two. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Improving_QA-Release-3.5 and http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Improving_QA-Release-3.5#2nd_Bug-hunting_session Or is there something that should make us change our mind for that? As far as I've been

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-08 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Cor, On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: > > So time to prepare bug hunt session two. >  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Improving_QA-Release-3.5 >  and > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Improving_QA-Release-3.5#2nd_Bug-hunting_session > > Or is there something that

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-09 Thread Nino Novak
Hi Cor, Am Sonntag, 8. Januar 2012, 22:52:22 schrieb Cor Nouws: > Other hits/remarks of course appreciated as well :-) Just some gut feelings from an occasional tester. First, somehow I'd personally like to have a longer period for Release related QA activities/events, at least a one-week peri

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-09 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Pedro, Thanks for replying. And as we wrote, I reply to the lists too. Pedro Lino wrote (09-01-12 01:34) So time to prepare bug hunt session two. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Improving_QA-Release-3.5 and http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Improving_QA-Release-3.5#2nd_Bug-hu

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-09 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Christian, Christian Lohmaier wrote (09-01-12 02:10) On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Cor Nouws wrote: So time to prepare bug hunt session two. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Improving_QA-Release-3.5 and http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Improving_QA-Release-3.5#2nd_Bug-hun

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-09 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Nino, Nino Novak wrote (09-01-12 16:20) Am Sonntag, 8. Januar 2012, 22:52:22 schrieb Cor Nouws: Other hits/remarks of course appreciated as well :-) Just some gut feelings from an occasional tester. First, somehow I'd personally like to have a longer period for Release related QA activit

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 16:20 +0100, Nino Novak wrote: > Just some gut feelings from an occasional tester. Good to understand these, thanks for sharing :-) > First, somehow I'd personally like to have a longer period for Release > related > QA activities/events, at least a one-week perio

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-10 Thread Pedro
Hi Michael Michael Meeks-2 wrote > > So - I'd love to understand this desire for less frequent releases > better :-) After all, we have tinderboxes churning out at least daily > releases (in theory), perhaps several a day if we are lucky. > > What is the concern about having new RC'

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-10 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 07:12 -0800, Pedro wrote: > OTH more releases means more features but also more bugs. And because new > bugs occur, old bugs are left behind. > Here is an example of what I'm talking about (and the reason why I insisted > on giving more weight to 3.4.5 than to 3.5.0...) > htt

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-10 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 10:51 -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote: > I'm the one you > made the change Correction: I'm the one *that* made the change I hate typing. -- Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc ___ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail addr

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-10 Thread Pedro Lino
Hi Kohei > The truth is that different people have different pet peeve bugs they > want backported to 3.4.x, and we can't respond to all of them because > it's extra work.  Backporting a change is not free, someone has to > review the change and make sure that change won't introduce regressions. >

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-10 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 16:22 +, Pedro Lino wrote: > >> To be honest I'm puzzled that a program which reportedly is used by 25 > >> *million* people worldwide has half a dozen people in QA... I guess this > >> shows a lot about human nature :( > > > > Could you clarify on this? I'm not sure how

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-10 Thread Pedro
Kohei Yoshida wrote > > Perhaps there is something about bugzilla and its environment that hold > them back. > Bugzilla IS user unfriendly. The LO form is a great improvement over that. But the main obstacle IMO is the requirement to have to subscribe to yet another account. I have suggested e

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Pedro, On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 08:48 -0800, Pedro wrote: > But the main obstacle IMO is the requirement to have to subscribe to yet > another account. I have suggested elsewhere that OpenID should be adopted as > the default identification method. I agree. > Most people already have an

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 07:12 -0800, Pedro wrote: > I know this wasn't addressed to me, but here are my thoughts... I always like to hear your thoughts :-) > First of all RCs: RC releases replace the tester's stable release. I know it > can't be otherwise. Ok - so this might be a

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-10 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 05:12:07PM +, Michael Meeks wrote: > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:OpenID_Auth_Plugin > > " Should email verification process still occur? > * There doesn't appear to be any way around it, as there's no way > to query an OpenID server for an

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-10 Thread Pedro
Hi Michael, all Michael Meeks-2 wrote > > Ok - so this might be a good argument for keeping > parallel-installability until later, perhaps for RC1 itself ? I'd really > prefer to have two releases to test the real release code though :-) > This is a Catch 22... If it is installed in para

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-11 Thread Pedro
Hi Michael, all Michael Meeks-2 wrote > > Actually, there is an updated patch in bugzilla's bugzilla: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294608 > > Unclear how to help focus minds there though :-) please do watch that > bug (requires a login ;->) and report back

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-12 Thread Nino Novak
Hi, please keep in mind that I'm by no means a QA expert, but sometimes I'm good in expressing thoughts and fears of ordinary people ;-) On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 09:58:48 AM Michael Meeks wrote: > On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 16:20 +0100, Nino Novak wrote: > > ... > > So - I'd love to underst

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-12 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, Cor Nouws wrote (09-01-12 23:10) Find mentors "officially" and don't rely on people to show up for the second one. It did work out on the first session, but esp. for the follow-up event it should be sure that mentors are around. I agree with that. Are there people that can help with

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-15 Thread Cor Nouws
Cor Nouws wrote (12-01-12 23:22) Cor Nouws wrote (09-01-12 23:10) Find mentors "officially" and don't rely on people to show up for the second one. It did work out on the first session, but esp. for the follow-up event it should be sure that mentors are around. I agree with that. Are there

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-15 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Petr, Thorsten, * Hmm, am I right if I guess that the RC1 will be delayed, in the queue behind 3.4.5 and the beta3 ? In that case, we might want to consider to move the 2nd session one/two weekends further on... Cor Nouws wrote (15-01-12 19:41) In any case, as it looks now, we are rathe

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-16 Thread Cor Nouws
Cor Nouws wrote (15-01-12 21:05) Hmm, am I right if I guess that the RC1 will be delayed, in the queue behind 3.4.5 and the beta3 ? In that case, we might want to consider to move the 2nd session one/two weekends further on... According to IRC/devs, RC1 still to be expected this week. Great :-)

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-24 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, Pedro wrote (10-01-12 18:57) Michael Meeks-2 wrote OTH more releases means more features but also more bugs. And because new bugs occur, old bugs are left behind. Oh ! so - this is an argument for doing a build every decade ;-) Not really. It's just an argument that if rel

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-25 Thread Petr Mladek
Cor Nouws píše v Út 24. 01. 2012 v 23:10 +0100: > Hi all, > > Pedro wrote (10-01-12 18:57) > > Michael Meeks-2 wrote > > >>> OTH more releases means more features but also more bugs. And because new > >>> bugs occur, old bugs are left behind. > >> > >>Oh ! so - this is an argument for doing a

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] 3.5.0 QA ... from BHS 1 to BHS 2

2012-01-26 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Petr, Petr Mladek wrote (25-01-12 10:57) Please, look at http://download.go-oo.org/lo/lo-release-plan-in-colors.png I recognise that one - you showed it in Paris and we discussed it. See my slide #23 ;-) => developers spend a lot of time on bug fixing Here are the commit statistics