On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:52 AM, AOO Volunteer <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Mr. Weir > Please assign me reports to confirm. > I use Debian x64 and prefer Writer and Calc. > Thank you. >
Oh, thank you! I just assigned you a batch of bugs reported on 64-bit Linux, Writer and Calc. Send a note to the list if you have any questions! -Rob > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013, at 18:26, Rob Weir wrote: >> Welcome again to all QA volunteers, New and Old! >> >> If you received this note, that means you are subscribed to the >> mailing list. That is good. It also means that you've received a lot >> of posts from me in recent days. Sorry about that. I do try to greet >> each new volunteer personally, and since most new volunteers have >> similar questions this leads to a lot of repetitive posts. >> >> As we all get up to speed to the QA tasks, we'll spend more time >> discussing the actually QA work. And at some point others will feel >> comfortable welcoming our new volunteers as well. Remember, there is >> nothing special about me. If you know the answer to a question, or >> can point a new volunteer to the Orientation Modules, then please do. >> Recruiting and training new volunteers is ongoing activity for any >> thriving open source project. Indeed, the same is true for any >> thriving corporation as well. >> >> So where do we stand with the QA for OpenOffice? >> >> 1) There is a "respin" of AOO 3.4.1 in the works, planned for later >> this month. It does not have any code changes, but does have a set of >> additional new translations: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, >> Polish, Basque, Asturian and Scottish Gaelic. >> >> Since the code is unchanged, it is not requiring any functional >> testing by the QA team. But the localization team is reviewing the >> binaries to verify that the menus, dialogs, language tools (spell >> checking), etc., are working properly. If you are fluent in any of >> these 8 languages and want to help with this final review, please send >> a note to the localization mailing list at: >> [email protected]. >> >> 2) AOO 4.0 -- We're still waiting for a developer snapshot release >> that has the UI features added. When that comes out we can test it. >> But not yet. >> >> 3) Backlog of unconfirmed defect reports. We have 2984 unconfirmed >> defects, some dating back several years. This is an improvement over >> last week when we had 3016. But it is still a cause for concern that >> we have so many. Why? Although the severe bugs, the blocking, >> show-stopper bugs will always get attention, since they are so >> prominent, the more common place bugs, the ones that effect the user's >> daily experience and their perception of "quality", can get lost in >> the noise if we're not keeping up with new user bug reports, reviewing >> them and confirming them in a timely fashion. >> >> Now obviously this backlog was not created overnight. It is years in >> the making. And we won't eliminate it over night. But I'd love to >> make slow & steady progress to get this number down and keep it down. >> Twenty volunteers doing ten defect reports a week can eliminate this >> backlog before AOO 4.0 ships and we get flooded with new bug reports. >> >> That is why I am encouraging new volunteers to help with confirming >> defect reports. I'm doing the same myself. If you have not already >> been assigned a batch to work with, and want to help, let me know what >> platform(s) you can test on, and any special requests (I like Calc, >> anything but Base, etc.) and I'll get you started. Or feel free to >> run the following query in Bugzilla and assign yourself bugs that look >> interesting: >> >> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamed&namedcmd=unconfirmed-defects&list_id=41761 >> >> (A bug that is currently assigned to "[email protected]" or >> assigned to an address ending in openoffice.org is currently >> unassigned) >> >> Thanks everyone for your hard work! >> >> -Rob
