On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:22 AM, colin mcdermott <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Colin, Welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project! > Can I please be added to the QA role in Bugzilla > > Username [email protected] > Done. > BTW started to perform steps below. Realised that I was not in QA role. If > you could put a note "if you cannot assign the bug to yourself, then you > probably have not been added to the QA role, please see above" > Done. > Here's what to do to confirm a new defect report: > > 1. First, assign the report to yourself by setting your Bugzilla > username (your email address) in the "QA Contact" field. > 2. Then read over the report. What are they really saying? Are they > reporting a bug? Asking for a new feature? Asking a support question? Just > because it is in Bugzilla does not mean that it is a defect report. > 3. Ask yourself: Are they saying that something is working incorrectly? > Or are they asking for new functionality? If they are asking for a new > feature, change the Issue Type field to "FEATURE". If they are asking for > an enhancement of an existing feature, set the Issue Type field to > "ENHANCEMENT". You can now set the Status to CONFIRMED and then save your > changes. You are done with the report. > > BTW Big Kudos for what you are doing. I know that I have only started > squatting but I plan to hit a few bugs each week. > Thanks. If you are familiar with Bugzilla it is not too hard to find bugs to work on. I'd recommend starting with the "unconfirmed-defects" predefined query and finding any interesting ones that have no QA Contact. Or, I'm happy to assign you a small batch of defects to review. For new volunteers I filter out the ones that I know will be difficult to test or require specialized knowledge and instead give ones rely more on common end-user knowledge of how OpenOffice works. Of course, finding suitable bug reports on your own is fine as well, and is something I'm hoping all volunteers eventually will do. Also, could I get you to add your information to the wiki here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/QA+Testing+Preferences Thanks! -Rob > -- > Regards > > Colin McDermott
