On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 22:46:03 +0100, Robinson Tryon
<bishop.robin...@gmail.com> wrote:
....
moreover we have to decide if pinging just UNCONFIRMED old bugs or even
NEW
bugs (excluding the easy hacks).
if the "ping campaign" is accepted by the QA, we only have to decide the
timeframe of bugs to test...
older than 6 months or older than 1 year etc. etc.
my proposal is to ping:
UNCONFIRMED bugs older than 100 days
http://snipurl.com/29ejxgd (183 bugs)
NEW bugs older than 2 years (*)
http://snipurl.com/29febjl (439 bugs)
(*) we should screen for easy hacks from this count and remove them if
present
Pinging these bug reports makes sense as long as
1) it's going to save the QA team a lot of time
2) we're getting a good response from the bug reporters
I think that both UNCONFIRMED and NEW reports could benefit from this
type of follow-up ping, but the proof will be in the data.
Best,
--R
as said to Beluga, the ping message will take QA a minimal effort since
it's just an automated message we send once.
then all the real job will be done to reporters and other people on CC
that will retest and hopefully give feedback... the QA team will only have
to wait.
even if only 5% of the pinged bugs will turn into WORKSFORME it will be a
win since we will not spend anymore time try to triage again those bugs.
moreover the automated message will serve like a kind of reminder to users
to upgrade to latest LO version... it's not rare to see people still using
obsolete LibO releases (like 4.1.x or early 4.2.x) just because they don't
follow our rapid release cycle.
having people using very old LO release is detrimental since they could
keep reporting bugs that are not present anymore in the current releases.
so our ping campaign could serve as an upgrade campaign as well
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