On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Anu Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
>

Hi Anitha,

OK.  You are now in the "qa-team" group.

> Also please add me the QA resources Wiki page.
>

You should be able to sign up for a wiki account here:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/signup.action

Then you can add your own information.

Thanks!

-Rob

> 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
>>

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