Re: [Libreoffice-qa] MS Word import: bug-to-bug or correct

2012-12-18 Thread John Smith
Hi,


Just for clarification: Are we talking about an ill-formed or
corrupted document here, and the way such documents should be handled
?


Regards,


John Smith.

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane lio...@mamane.lu wrote:
 Hi,

 What is our policy about MS Word import? Should it give the same
 result as in MS Word, or where MS Word is buggy it should give a
 correct result?

 I ask this in context of the attached bug.

 --
 Lionel


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 Cc:
 Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:58:25 +
 Subject: [Bug 49306] FILEOPEN catastrophically bad import of one specific 
 .doc (Microsoft Word) document
 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49306

 ydutri...@gmail.com changed:

What|Removed |Added
 
  Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
  Resolution|--- |NOTABUG

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Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Not Receiving Replies Correctly - Ideas?

2012-12-13 Thread John Smith
Havent got a clue, but 

- Did you receive this reply ?
- Is the reply email showing up when you use your browser to access
your email instead of using Thunderbird ?
- Is the reply in the Thunderbird or web Gmail SPAM box

just my 2$, sorry i cant be of more help here.



- John Smith.

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi All,

 This is becoming a serious issue on my side and I wanted feedback. Earlier I
 sent out an email to Libo-QA and LibO user mailing list about our conference
 call tomorrow. Two people replied but I didn't get the replies, instead Rob
 pointed out that he had replied and I responded that I hadn't received any
 reply.

 http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Libreoffice-qa-LibreOffice-QA-Conference-Call-December-14th-2012-1400-UTC-td4024195.html

 That's the full conversation, I only have the sent item that I sent, not the
 reply by Florian and Rob.I need a solution if I'm to work efficiently :(

 Thanks in advance, I know that this is a little off topic but I need help
 immediately to get this straightened out. Using Gmail + Thunderbird


 Regards,
 Joel

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 LibO QA Volunteer
 jmadero@gmail.com



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Re: [Libreoffice-qa] How Can I Provide More Info For Developers

2012-09-07 Thread John Smith
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi All,

 Came across this bug FDO#45570 and I've already nominated as a most annoying
 bug but I think that devs might appreciate me getting some kind of a log or
 something together for the crash. What type of log should I create and how
 do I go about doing this (basic steps, my knowledge of terminology is still
 in the first stages :) ). Thanks everyone



 Best Regards,
 Joel


Just some random thoughts here: What happens when you create a
'working document', thats been opened and saved in Msoffice or
OpenOffice, and then try to open that saved doc in LibreOffice ? Does
the issue still appear ? Also, would it be helpful to attach such a
document to the bug report for troubleshooting purposes ?


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Re: [Libreoffice-qa] How Can I Provide More Info For Developers

2012-09-07 Thread John Smith
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote:
 I don't see that helping much, as the developer who takes this one can
 quickly do this themselves. A working doc only takes 2 seconds to make.

 Best Regards,
 Joel

Another random thought then: Is there a way to reproduce the issue
that doesnt require the installation of Lotus Domino ?



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Re: [Libreoffice-qa] How Can I Provide More Info For Developers

2012-09-07 Thread John Smith
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote:
 Wrong Bug, dammit, my bad. Here is the proper one, attachment is there and
 functioning, I had 5 open FDO tabs in FF and picked the wrong one.

 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48569

 My apologies

 Joel

Maybe im just dumb, but: Once you have provided a reliable and
reproducible test case (in this case, download the odt file attached
to the report and save it as docx in libreoffice), is there still a
need to provide further info at all ? The person tackling the bug can
get all the info required on his/her own system, then ?

Just my 2$.



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Re: [Libreoffice-qa] How Can I Provide More Info For Developers

2012-09-07 Thread John Smith
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote:
 Hi John,

 You can always make it easier for a developer to solve - and the 
 easier
 it is, the more likely it is to get solved quickly. Ways to do that are:

 * getting a stack-trace with full debugging symbols

 * running valgrind with full debugging symbols and
   attaching a trace.

If this is the case, maybe pre-build binaries with full debugging
symbols should be made available for download (more) easily: both for
releases and daily master builds ? Also, a 'howto' on how to do this
(on linux, with gdb, on windows, with windbg ?) would be nice to have
?


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Re: [Libreoffice-qa] How Can I Provide More Info For Developers

2012-09-07 Thread John Smith
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote:


 Sounds good, but I agree with John that better instructions are needed. I'm
 working on a new triage page and hopefully in there we can get someone to
 contribute incredibly precise, easy for noobs, instructions for every type
 of backtrace/debug. Right now they are really written by experts for experts
 (IMO). I would backtrace much more frequently if I could follow the
 instructions on how to do it. Every time I feel like I have to go on IRC and
 ask 100 questions.






 I don't think we have enough people packaging to make pre-built binaries for
 everyone. Plus, these are huge, my install is 22 gigs with all symbols on,
 not very good for packaging purposes.

I guess it all depends on who your target audience is. If you really
want end-users (libre office users) to provide backtraces, you really
need to make the threshold for doing that as low as possible. I dont
think it is reasonable to have end-users compile source code for
themselves; especially on windows, where it requires msvc or cygwin to
do so.
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Re: [Libreoffice-qa] How Can I Provide More Info For Developers

2012-09-07 Thread John Smith
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote:
 I'll bring this up at our next conference call and see if there is a
 possible solution.


 Best Regards,
 Joel


May I humbly note that I personally feel that developers should be
able to produce their own backtraces, given a solid reproducible
test-case in the bug report ? Perhaps effort would be better spend on:

1.)
teaching end-users how to provide a reproducible test case in a bug report

2.)
teaching devs on how to produce backtraces

instead of:

1.)
teaching end-users how to install symbol binaries and backtrace them
on their platform ?


Just my 2$


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Re: [Libreoffice-qa] How Can I Provide More Info For Developers

2012-09-07 Thread John Smith
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote:
 This isn't for end-users, it's for QA team..and it's our job to do as
 much as possible to help the developers. I know when I'm doing the
 development side I appreciate whatever previous info users and QA can
 provide. It's maximizing the efficiency of our abilitieslimited # of
 developers means we should be using their time wisely, not running
 backtraces that someone with 1/10th of their computer programming skills
 could manage just fine.

 Best Regards,
 Joel

Well, like I said: I guess it all depends on who your target audience
is. Just keep in mind who that is, and what their expected skill set
is, and adjust your procedures to that. IMHO.

- John Smith.
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