[Libreoffice-qa] What if a bug can not be reproduced with newer version?

2014-07-21 Thread Aleksandr P
Hello. Sometimes I meet a situation, when a bug was confirmed for old LibreOffice version but can not be reproduced in new one. In QA/Bugzilla/FAQ (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/FAQ#How_to_terminate_a_Bug_if_it_can.27t_be_reproduced_any_longer) it is written: “If a bug has been

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] What if a bug can not be reproduced with newer version?

2014-07-21 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
Hi, On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 02:14:52PM +0400, Aleksandr P wrote: > What is current QA-team position? If you know why this bug is fixed (as in a developer said: "this commit should fix that" or used the bug id in a commit message) its RESOLVED/FIXED. If you cannot reproduce the bug anymore but cou

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] What if a bug can not be reproduced with newer version?

2014-07-21 Thread Joel Madero
Hi Aleksandr, What Bjoern said but keep in mind sometimes users aren't happy with this. If a user is requesting a backport to a currently supported version, it's up to QA to decide if it's worth the hassle of finding out the commit that fixed it, poking the developer, and then getting them to back