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 Michael Meeks
Hi there, On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 04:57 -0700, bfo wrote: One thing I'd like to do is make a developers' portal - we can use as a homepage, with easy-to-use boxes to lookup bug numbers, and interesting reports on the page: that might be rather a good way of advertising the latest

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 page

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 Michael Meeks
Hi there, On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 09:38 -0700, bfo wrote: Unfortunately those graphs are discouraging in many ways. Especially if one thinks about upgrading LO... Sure - of course I want to get on people's case ;-) we don't show any visibility of the overall number of non-regression bugs

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 Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2012-08-13 at 19:33 +0200, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: I can assure you they are. The best way to get a bug solved is: ... Once you are there, it is orders of magnitude easier to go ahead with the bug. Sure - the problem is then for developers to sift out these bugs where a ton of

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 unit

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 Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, Two points to this: On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:57:56AM -0700, bfo 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,

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 Michael Meeks
Hi Timur, On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 12:16 +0200, Timur Gadzo wrote: I'm asking for EXPLANATION in the first post when will FIXES for bugs resolved in MAB 3.5 be included in LO 3.6 CODE. Ah ! sorry, I mis-understood :-) so the generic answer to: when will XYZ bug be fixed ?

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 Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi Michael, all, On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:36:27AM +0100, Michael Meeks wrote: On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 12:16 +0200, Timur Gadzo wrote: I'm asking for EXPLANATION in the first post when will FIXES for bugs resolved in MAB 3.5 be included in LO 3.6 CODE. Ah ! sorry, I mis-understood

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... Michael

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 Pedro
Hi bfo bfo wrote I would be happy if I achieve the change in base workflow - new feature in the codebase? Splendid! But unit tests, testcases and manual testing done before commiting. QA OKeyed the feature? Then you can commit. As an ex-QA member, I think I should warn you that LO is not

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 Bjoern Michaelsen
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:38:21AM -0700, bfo wrote: I am starting to doubt that it helps. I recently delivered Windows bt to most crash bugs I could find. Prepared wiki page about it. Asked for review of that page. Silence. Few of the bugs were fixed, without any comment if my bt was useful.

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 Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi Pedro, On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 09:54:15AM -0700, Pedro wrote: As an ex-QA member, ... Apparently this (time based release) development model works for other OSS, but I believe that is because they must have a much larger QA community... Lets please discuss that constructively: Yes, we need

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 Jochen
Hi *, Am 10.08.2012 08:27, schrieb Rainer Bielefeld: bfo schrieb: Personally I would declare bankruptcy of this system. IMHO has bfo some right. But: 1) bankruptcy of this system is a little bit exaggerated. 2) Whinging and grouching will not help We need a strategy with a positive,

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 Timur Gadzo
On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 15:27 +0200, Timur Gadzo wrote: I find that there should be an explanation in MAB 3.6. when exactly will fixes for bugs resolved in LibreOffice 3.5 most annoying bugs be included in LO 3.6. Right; that's not clear. Personally I prefer a rather shorter, more

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 users without QA control and devs IMHO

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 Bugzilla

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 Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi bfo, On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 08:42:56AM -0700, bfo 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

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 more

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

2012-08-09 Thread Timur Gadzo
Hello I find that there should be an explanation in MAB 3.6. when exactly will fixes for bugs resolved in LibreOffice 3.5 most annoying bugs be included in LO 3.6. 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

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). Hi.