Some bugs were checked on Win 7, hope that's OK... Please assign more.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013, at 19:24, Rob Weir wrote: > 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
