-----Original Message----- >From: Andre Schnabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Mar 9, 2006 11:41 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [qa-dev] Re: [releases] status 2.0.2 release > >Hi, > >Søren Thing Pedersen schrieb: >> >> I asked because some use the old test cases (we did), some use TCM (we >> tried) and now it seems the TCM is also outdated (according to a post >> on another mailing list): >> http://l10n.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=6457 >No .. TCM is not outdated. TCM should be improved (as it does not fit >our needs .. esp. for release testing very well). >As it seems, OpenSolaris community already has a improved TCM at it was >suggested to move over to that one. > >But .. ATM nobody from OOo community (or at least only very few people) >have full access to the OS TCM .. so .. we cannot tell if it would be >the solution. > And (I shall repeat myself here) is there an automated method to test builds on Mac OS X? If not, each language will have to be smoketested manually and the Smoketest suite is very inadequate. There are a few tests for Calc and none that I know of for Base. These issues need to be addressed. >> >> I don't know what to tell Danish QA'ers so until this is sorted out we >> will not do QA anymore. Instead we will release a given build blindly. > >I can understand that you are upset (other communities are doing the >tests as well .. and run into the same troubles). But please do *not* >release blindly. Although the chance is low, that only your localization >is broken, it exists. And this would hurt your users. > Not only this, but the error found (for instance) in functionality for Finnish may also exist in English-US or German. If an error/problem is found, this needs to be addressed and either fixed or a workaround found.
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