Hi Anita, The release is almost done. But still testing could be done anytime. And the more feedback we get the better the software.
If you want to get started and have a try: The release candidate can be found at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.4+Release+Notes All the best Peter Am 13. Oktober 2017 20:56:43 MESZ schrieb Anita Jeziorska <anita.jo...@gmail.com>: >Hello, > >Thank you for exhaustive describing. Now I'm a little bit confused >because >of lots of information and I need some time to get familiar with all of >this :) >I subscribed dev mailing list just to know what's going on and to qa >mailing list. Hope that soon I'll be useful :) > >Best wishes, >Anita > >2017-10-12 23:08 GMT+02:00 Peter Kovacs <peter.kov...@posteo.de>: > >> Hi Anita, >> >> Fine. Thanks for answering the questions. >> Let me write a bit how we work. >> >> 1) The volunteer principle >> The project does not dictate what you do. >> It is up to you to decide how much, where and how you support >Openoffice. >> We look of course for consents and agreement between the volunteers, >but >> in general every volunteer is self driven. >> >> 2) mailing lists >> We are communicating through mailing lists. Because we believe in >open >> transparent world we publish almost everything. >> There are only 2 lists with limited in access. Security and private >> (project management) >> Also people can take over if there is time issue. So if you have a >> question some other community member might answer on recruitment. If >you >> write to people only those can answer. Could take more time. >> >> The mailing list that is focused around testing is QA. I suggest you >> subscribe to that list, and start reading what is going on there. ( >> https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html ) >> >> The recruitment list has the idea of a lifeline. By times it is quite >> overwhelming and it suppose to help you to orient yourself. >> >> The dev mailing list, is our hearth. Currently we are in preparation >and >> testing of the upcoming release 4.1.4 which is in final stage ( you >almost >> missed this party ;) ) >> But there should be a lot of on going traffic to check out what >people are >> doing. >> >> 3) where we could test >> We have 2 major test focus, where you can look into. >> A) release testing >> As I said above, we currently test the release. That is done by >checking >> if the release features are working, and if the release works >featureless >> for you. >> >> B) user bug report testing >> Users are reporting issues. More often they need help because >something >> broke. >> Goal is to find out if the problem is user specific. In this case we >ask >> them to reach out to forums or user mailing list. >> Or if you can reconstruct the issue at your system by I.e. repeating >the >> steps or by beeing able to reproduce the effect, then it is a real >bug and >> needs to be processed. >> >> We currently are in final release testing. Maybe you can follow/join >the >> RC5 testing. >> If there is an issue write to recruitment and we try to sort it out. >> >> Hope this is not overwhelming to you. :) >> >> All the best >> Peter >> >> Am 11. Oktober 2017 21:46:01 MESZ schrieb Anita Jeziorska < >> anita.jo...@gmail.com>: >> >Hello, >> > >> >Sure I don't mind :) below answers to your questions: >> > >> >1. Can you describe a little what your experience is? >> >I'm beginner without professional experience. Few months ago I >decided >> >to >> >change something and started to learn theory of testing on my own >(from >> >blogs, websites, groups dedicated to testers, webinars). Now, with >some >> >basic knowledge I'm looking for open source projects thanks to which >> >I'll >> >be able to practise. >> > >> >2. Have you done Application testing before? >> >Yes, I've started to test Firefox experimental features in "Firefox >> >Test >> >Pilot" project. That's why I'm familiar with GitHub where all issues >> >have >> >to be reported (I found some issues which I've reported). >> > >> >3. How much experiences do you have with open office? >> >I use it every day because of my actual job, especially calc and >> >writer. >> >Mostly not sophisticated functions connected with creating tables, >> >articles, formatting. From time to time I need to use something more >> >complicated. >> > >> >4. Have you looked a little around the tools we use? Do you know >them >> >or is >> >it all new to you? >> >I'm not sure exactly which tools do you mean because there's a lot >of >> >information. I read about "Infrastructure", and it's said there to >> >report >> >bug via Bugzilla. I didn't use it yet but suppose that bug reporting >> >scheme >> >is similar to GitHub. I'm familiar with creating issues in Jira >because >> >of >> >preparing to recruitment interview. >> > >> >5. What do you expect how this will be for you? >> >I hope for me it will be opportunity to practise and finally use >> >theoretical knowledge, and by the way for you it's chance to get >user >> >focused on testing, not only using for free. >> > >> >Best Regards! >> >Anita >> > >> > >> > >> >2017-10-11 19:51 GMT+02:00 Keith N. McKenna >> ><keith.mcke...@comcast.net>: >> > >> >> Forwarding to original poster whom is not subscribed. >> >> >> >> Regards >> >> Keith >> >> >> >> >> >> ---------- Wiadomość przekazana dalej ---------- >> >> From: Peter Kovacs <peter.kov...@posteo.de> >> >> To: recruitment@openoffice.apache.org >> >> Cc: >> >> Bcc: >> >> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 19:40:08 +0200 >> >> Subject: Re: Volunteer to test >> >> Hi Anita, >> >> >> >> Welcome to the recruitment channel. >> >> And thanks for showing interest in helping out. >> >> Can you describe a little what your experience is? >> >> Have you done Application testing before? >> >> How much experiences do you have with open office? >> >> Have you looked a little around the tools we use? Do you know them >or >> >is >> >> it all new to you? >> >> What do you expect how this will be for you? >> >> >> >> I hope you do not mind if I do not rush. I would like to make your >> >> volunteering count. >> >> >> >> All the best >> >> Peter >> >> >> >> Am 11. Oktober 2017 17:29:02 MESZ schrieb Anita Jeziorska < >> >> anita.jo...@gmail.com>: >> >> > >> >> >> >> >>
