On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:59 PM, jdaniel.alvaro
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you rob,
>
> Other question, What do you mean "fixed in trunk?
>

Good question!

Think of a tree, with a main trunk and many branches.

The code for OpenOffice is stored in a repository called a "version
control system".  The specific product we use is called "Apache
Subversion".  You can see the code here:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk/main/

When we work on a new major version of OpenOffice, like 4.0, the
programmers do the following:

1) New features, when they are complete, are placed into the "trunk"
of the repository.  (We call that "checking in code into the trunk").
The trunk is where the stable code goes.  It is where we do most of
our testing.  When we release AOO 4.0 we release based on what is in
the trunk.

2) Developers can also create "branches".  This is where
"work-in-progress" features live, features that are not stable or
complete.  This allows developers to work in isolation on their
features without causing conflict with other developers.  The
accessibility work for AOO 4.0 is in a branch right now.  The side
panel UI is also in a branch.

You can see all of our branches here:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/branches

3) When a developer completes their work in a branch, then that code
is "merged" into the trunk.

4) When we say something is "fixed in the trunk" we mean the code that
fixed the bug was checked into the trunk.  That means you can see the
fixed code when you test a trunk build.

5) If you look carefully at our snapshot builds, you can see that some
of them are labeled "branch".  All the others that are not labeled
branch are trunk builds:

http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/index.html


Regards,

-Rob


> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:02 PM, jdaniel.alvaro
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > when I close the bug with "CLOSED" I have other options as in the image.
>> >
>> > http://imagebin.org/247224
>> > What option I need to choose  with  "CLOSED"?
>> >
>>
>> If you tested the build and verified that the bug was fixed, then
>> CLOSED/FIXED is the right choice.
>>
>> If you test and the bug still occurs, then you do a REOPEN.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>> >
>> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:19 PM, jdaniel.alvaro
>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > Yes,  but if i'm not the  QA Contact I can't change the  status, to
>> >> > "Verified" or "Closed" and I  see that there are many  old bugs and i
>> >> want
>> >> > to close it, I can't do it because i'm not the QA contact, how can do
>> >> this?
>> >>
>> >> Do you get an error message when you try to change the status to
>> >> "Verified" or "Closed"?
>> >>
>> >> The QA Contact field is only for tracking.  It does not control
>> >> permissions in Bugzilla.
>> >>
>> >> -Rob
>> >>
>>

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