Sorry for posting this twice, the first one went to users list..I meant for it to go to this list instead.
Hello all, I've been doing some testing of issues, specifically regarding the Base module. This is not a totally new experience for me, testing software in general and testing OOoBase in specific. Over the last 18 months I have entered a few issues for Base. However, recently I volunteered to join the QA team for Base, meaning that now I get to actually change status on issues, and given that it seemed prudent to bring a little more discipline into what I am doing. Looking at my computers here I realize I have OOo distributions from 3 different sources, and that is about to become 4 different sources. First - there are distributions downloaded from OOo mirrors. Second - there are distributions downloaded from ftp.linux.cz Third - OOo distributions from my Linux distributor, Ubuntu Fourth - I will be looking at what Novel is now offering. ( actually that should be 5, as I also run Kubuntu 64, but OOo and the OS itself is not very stable there so I don't use it much..a shame cause I really like KDE ) Now, I would of thought that the first two sources should be giving me pretty much the same thing - but experience has proven that not to always be the case. I will sometimes run into a problem with OOo from linux.cz that does not happen in the same version of OOo retrieved from an OOo mirror, less often this has been reversed. In practice however there is usually a milestone difference between what I get from linux.cz and what I get from OO.o. Example - at present I have OOo-Dev 2.3m_210 from an OOo mirror and OpenOffice.org 2.3m_211 from linux.cz. To be clear, I do not build binaries from source, these are all binary distributions. This is getting wordier then I would like so let me cut to the chase. Is there a policy, or a recommendation, or opinion, about which distributions are valid for testing of issues in the OOo tracking system? What about for opening new issues? Some things are patently obvious - finding a problem with VBA support, or with the new extension for importing/exporting MS XML file formats under the Novel distributuion for example rightfully belongs to Novel. An example of what is not so clear to me is this. When I downloaded the 2.3m_211 file from linux.cz and installed it, it did not install as OOo-Dev, rather as OpenOffice.org 2.3. It created a new directory structure for this 2.3 release and then quietly removed all the files form the OpenOffice.og 2.2 directory tree. The splash screens all say 2.2, but the help screens say 2.3. Do I just not report this to anyone? If I do report it, do I do so via mailing lists and not the Issue tracker? Anyway, I hope you get the gist of what I am wondering about. Thanks Drew Jensen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
