We've recently read some great intros from the new list subscribers, those who responded to the recent "Call for QA Volunteers". This is wonderful to read. But to be polite, I think the existing active QA folks should introduce themselves as well.
I'll start. I'm Rob Weir. If you read the blog post or the orientation modules for new volunteers, that was me writing. I'm working on recruitment across all OpenOffice functions, trying to make it easier for interested new volunteers to get started. So if you have any feedback or ideas on making this easier, feel free to send me a note. On the QA side specifically, I help review new defect reports from users, and verify them where I can. In many cases these raw user defect reports are really support questions or misunderstandings. So I either try to explain how things work in my response, or refer them to our community support forums: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ I can test with Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8, or Linux, 32 or 64 bit, via virtual machines. I keep a base image of each of the operating systems, as well as a single base image on Windows XP for OOo 3.2, OOo 3.2.1, OOo 3.3, AOO 3.4.0 and AOO 3.4.0, as well as one with LibreOffice and Microsoft Office. This way I can quickly clone the existing VM and test an upgrade scenario. (I use VMWare, but VirtualBox has similar capabilities). I'm also very much interested in document interoperability, e.g., how well OpenOffice renders Microsoft documents, and how well OpenOffice documents are rendered in MS Office. Regards, -Rob
