Rob, I am Anitha from USA. Could you please add me to the QA role in Bugzilla so that I can get started on assigning some bugs for myself for verification?
Also please add me the QA resources Wiki page. Thank you, Anitha Nityanand On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
