Re: [Libreoffice-qa] what happened to Reiner?

2013-07-11 Thread bfo
Tommy wrote Retiered some time ago [can't find thread]. Very sad Ok, I was afraid that he left the project... anyway he did a very good job here and everybody will welcome him if he comes back. He did:

Re: Stack trace in Windows

2013-04-23 Thread bfo
V Stuart Foote wrote So having a bit of a chore when grabbing a stack trace in Windows. Application to use seems to be the Sysinternals (Microsoft TechNet) Russinovich Cogswell developed Process Monitor utility. It will completely capture to log ALL system activity on a Windows OS. The

Re: minutes of ESC call ...

2013-04-18 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote + Tollef's great work (thanks to TDF funding) on bugzilla: + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html + shows the QA heros: top bug closers, stats of opened / shut etc. Hi! Great to see useful pages already

Re: Amazon Cloud

2013-04-09 Thread bfo
Florian Effenberger wrote Hello, we have received a voucher for the Amazon Cloud, and after playing with it for a while, I think it could be a good extension for our current infrastructure. [...] Anyone has already experience with using the Amazon Cloud for compiling? Hi! Mozilla moved

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Minutes - QA Call 01/11/2013

2013-01-22 Thread bfo
jmadero wrote One of the main issues is that FDO doesn't allow you to go from RESOLVED - WORKSFORME back to UNCONFIRMED. Hi! Not true. RESOLVED WORKSFORMEUNCONFIRMED transition is possible with current fdo status workflow. Just checked that moment ago myself. See this bug activity:

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Minutes - QA Call 01/11/2013

2013-01-21 Thread bfo
jmadero wrote If you mark a bug as WFM, you are unable to go directly back to UNCONFIRMED - which for me is strange, I understand if it's marked as FIXED but WFM shouldn't block you from doing UNCONFIRMED again. Hi! Are you sure about that? See this bug activity table:

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Minutes - QA Call 01/11/2013

2013-01-17 Thread bfo
Hi! Please explain little more the following: jmadero wrote -Status clarification (New vs. Reopened) **Agreed: *Reopened should only be used if the bug is assigned - often Reopened status is used by the Reporters when bug is marked as INVALID, DUPLICATE or WFM, how this new policy will work

Re: Cppcheck reports

2013-01-11 Thread bfo
julien2412 wrote Also, I uploaded detailed reports, I meant all files concerned by cppcheck reports + index page with links on source files htmlized You'll find it there: http://serval2412.free.fr/cppcheck_reports.tar.bz2 Just uncompress and browse Hi! Could this be placed at

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [libreoffice-design] Send Feedback Option

2012-11-29 Thread bfo
Stefan Knorr (Astron)-2 wrote here's a link to an HTML mockup: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/87946285/libreoffice/feedback/feedback-page.html Hi! Did you think about setting up LibreOffice Feedback page using Mozilla software? It's code is available at github:

rename the URL for feedback to something more positive

2012-11-28 Thread bfo
rename the URL for feedback to something more positive Change-Id: Iea248eeb3c3eacf9b0f123daa52516f5c1f0259c - ::rtl::OUString sURL(http://hub.libreoffice.org/file-a-bug/?version=; + utl::ConfigManager::getAboutBoxProductVersion() + + ::rtl::OUString

Re: static clang source code analysis (Code Review Requested)

2012-11-05 Thread bfo
John Smith wrote Hi, Here's a clang static source code analysis of the latest git sources : http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/clang_reports/master~2012-11-04_17.27.13/ Hi! Is it comparable with the previous one? Hope you will update lcov one too. Any chances to have those two updated on a

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] minutes of the QA Call tomorrow, Tuesday 1300UTC

2012-10-31 Thread bfo
Sophie Gautier wrote I would propose to use QA Contact field for this purpose, at least when in the processing (translation, gathering more details) phase. If it could be the qa@fr list, then it's ok. Hi! This have to be Bugzilla registered account. If there is one for qa@fr, then it could

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] minutes of the QA Call tomorrow, Tuesday 1300UTC

2012-10-29 Thread bfo
Sophie Gautier wrote I've discussed the process with our FR team and they are ok to handle it. Hi! Great to hear that! All we need now is a list of people, by language, who can be cc'ed to work on the bug when it has non English summary and seems to be a valid report at first sight. Sophie

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] New Easy Hack Tracking System -- Developer Input Required

2012-10-18 Thread bfo
Hi! Recently I stumbled upon two open source projects (sources are available on github) to get more volunteers by their interests: - in bugs department - see http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/ - in the development area - see http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/ Those are very simple sites, where

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] LDTP now works for Linux, Win Mac

2012-10-13 Thread bfo
Thorsten Behrens wrote Hi there, seen this today - http://nagappanal.blogspot.de/2012/10/ann-automated-testing-on-mac-atomac-101.html Did anyone have experience (positive negative) with that tool? Cheers, -- Thorsten Hi. See

Re: FDO Permissions

2012-10-01 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 10:33 -0700, bfo wrote: This could be done on per project basis. Unfortunately with Oh ! if we know that this is easy to turn on on a per product basis (ie. a simple bugzilla setting just for our product); then that is trivial to get turned

Re: FDO Permissions

2012-09-28 Thread bfo
jmadero wrote My suspicion is that the other freedesktop projects would hate that, and that this is something that we'd need to share with them; making it rather difficult to fix. Hi. This could be done on per project basis. Unfortunately with Michael Meeks wrote Generally we try

Re: FDO Permissions

2012-09-28 Thread bfo
jmadero wrote I think that recognizing who is QA and who isn't will become an issue. Hi. It would be possible to create QA Bugzilla group with special icon and then add QA people as members. Icon would be displayed along Bugzilla nick then. See 3.15.1:3

Re: [FIXED] Re: master regression: PPT load ...

2012-08-24 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote it should be fixed in the next build iteration. Hi. Checked with: LO 3.7.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 6737f12 Windows XP Professional SP3 Could not reproduce. All good. Best regards. -- View this message in context:

Re: LibreOffice code coverage

2012-08-23 Thread bfo
Michael Stahl-2 wrote Did anyone make such report for LibreOffice codebase? no, unfortunately we don't know how the unit test coverage ranks exactly on a scale from far too low to infinitesimal :-/ Hi. Thanks to work of John Smith such report is available at

Re: Bug 38840 - Adding coverage analysis to unit tests

2012-08-23 Thread bfo
John Smith wrote Anyway, the generated html report as it currently is can be found here : http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/lcov_reports/ Hi. Great work! I hope both reports will be generated regularly and help improve quality of LO codebase. Best regards. -- View this message in

Re: master regression: PPT load ...

2012-08-21 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote I have a slide test-case here: http://users.freedesktop.org/~michael/test-docs/Balmer.ppt It has a number of images, and bullets (and marketing nonsense) in it. It loads and renders fine in 3.6.0 - but in master the majority of the text and images are

Re: Static src analysis of LibreOffice

2012-08-21 Thread bfo
John Smith wrote Not a new report (yet), but the clang analyzer reports have found a permanent home at this location : http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/clang_reports/ Hi! This is great news. Hope this will allow to improve LO codebase in any way. Anyone could comment the results of this

Re: [FIXED] Re: master regression: PPT load ...

2012-08-21 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote Thanks ! :-) turns out it was a line we lost during some comment translation, luckily thanks to Tomaž - it was trivial to find the three day old commit that caused the issue isolate it really fast :-) That's the joy of debugging regressions vs. master I

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-21 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote There is one already - Bugzilla. I think devs should be teached how to use Bugzilla more. :-) Sure - but a developer's daily interaction involves using many bug trackers - from LibreOffice, to SUSE, RedHat, Deb-bugs, Apache Issues, etc. having a single page

Re: minutes of ESC call ...

2012-08-16 Thread bfo
Bjoern Michaelsen wrote + want a hard-hacks query - with five hits We can give that a try, but thinking about it that is really easy abused when just triggering on a whiteboard keyword (as in: people adding it to their pet peeve bugs). If that happens, handing over a query

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Moztrap, some questions

2012-08-16 Thread bfo
Hi. tl;dr, but IMHO ideal localized MozTrap system could be designed this way: Tests should be written using some kind of special text editor with autocomplete, in generic language (or based on English) using UI strings and then those strings substituted to the language of choice (not only

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-14 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote Of course the filters are tested; there were -zero- unit tests for the RTF filter before we started, it is now perhaps -the- most unit tested filter that there is - every bug fix Miklos makes has a nice unit test: better - since the code is shared, that is unit

Re: minutes of ESC call ...

2012-08-13 Thread bfo
Noel Grandin wrote - zero tolerance policy for regression issues during development - zero tolerance policy for crash issues during development People who advocate zero tolerance for such things are welcome to provide the time and financial resources necessary to achieve this. Hi. Or

Re: minutes of ESC call ...

2012-08-13 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote On the other hand giving all developers the idea that testing / bug fixing can be endlessly deferred since we'll never release - is a really poor plan too; one aspect of that is that it's not fair on the people that work diligently to test and fix things so we can

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-13 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote The reason I graph regressions each week is to try to add focus there; if you can think of another more encouraging way - that'd be appreciated. Hi. Unfortunately those graphs are discouraging in many ways. Especially if one thinks about upgrading LO... Michael

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] top #n bugs tracking ...

2012-08-13 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote So - I like the idea of highlighting a small set of the most critical bugs each-week - say five; and having them linked in the ESC minutes with a small write-up. Of course that would need to be generated by QA. The bit that is unworkable in the above is the

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-11 Thread bfo
Jochen wrote We need a strategy with a positive, encouraging motto for the developers. Hi. Strategy is simple - the time has come to manage bugs better. I could be mistaken, it is still difficult to me to gather informations from all LO resources, but I think that today some QA people are

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-10 Thread bfo
Jochen wrote IMHO has bfo some right. But: 1) bankruptcy of this system is a little bit exaggerated. Hi! Not at all. After reviewing 400 bugs (and counting) I could double 3.5MAB numbers in an instant. The main problem is that MAB is a battlefield for users without QA control and devs IMHO

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-10 Thread bfo
Rainer Bielefeld-2 wrote For some of these bugs simply the Bug description still is not satisfying so that I can understand developers that they pick bugs where they can start fixing with out much additional preliminary research. Hi! Sometimes I am not even sure that devs use Bugzilla

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-10 Thread bfo
Bjoern Michaelsen wrote I dont think discussing this on a mailing list will help us find the silver bullet to the problems you describe. However, you are most invited to just us on the next QA Call on August, 23rd 2012 1400UTC, discussing these topics on the phone is usually a lot more

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Fwd: [tdf-announce] The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.6 with a wealth of new features and improvements

2012-08-09 Thread bfo
Timur_LOL wrote It is clear that at the beginning bugs list should contain only bugs which are *new* in LibreOffice 3.6, but at some time, while some fixes from MAB 3.5 are integrated in the code, there is a decision on what to do with the remaining unfixed bugs from a branch (3.5). Hi.

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] minutes of ESC call ...

2012-08-02 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote * QA update (Rainer) + new bug report page - with search for duplicates thanks to Tollef Hi. Nice that Potential Duplicates has been enabled, the same for usernames autocomplete. Whining could be enabled also. Maybe bugs.freedesktop.org administrators are going

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Freedesktop down ??

2012-08-01 Thread bfo
Florian Reisinger wrote Somehow it seems to me that Bugzilla is down (With some circumstances only...) http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/862641-81201261840PM Hi. Seems it is updated to 4.0.7 now and blazing fast atm... Best regards. -- View this message in context:

Re: Static src analysis of LibreOffice

2012-07-30 Thread bfo
John Smith wrote I have been playing around with the llvm/clang static source code analyzer (http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html) for a while now, and thought it might be fun and beneficial to run the analyzer on the libreoffice ('master') source code. For those interested the results

Re: LibreOffice code coverage

2012-07-27 Thread bfo
julien2412 wrote There's a tracker about coverage, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38840 For the moment, no one seemed to be on it (perhaps I'm wrong). Hi. What a discovery! I have found some scripts already in the codebase

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] LibreOffice code coverage

2012-07-27 Thread bfo [via Document Foundation Mail Archive]
julien2412 wrote There's a tracker about coverage, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38840 For the moment, no one seemed to be on it (perhaps I'm wrong). Hi. What a discovery! I have found some scripts already in the codebase

Interoperability of LibreOffice and Microsoft Office 2013

2012-07-17 Thread bfo
Hi. Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 Preview Evaluation is available for download as MSI installer at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh973391.aspx?wt.mc_id=TEC_114_1_5 (link at the bottom of the page). Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012

[Libreoffice-qa] Interoperability of LibreOffice and Microsoft Office 2013

2012-07-17 Thread bfo [via Document Foundation Mail Archive]
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LibreOffice code coverage

2012-07-11 Thread bfo
Hi. Today I stumbled upon Thunderbird code coverage report (http://people.mozilla.org/~jcranmer2/c-ccov/). Did anyone make such report for LibreOffice codebase? Best regards. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-code-coverage-tp3994901.html Sent

Re: Gerrit: bug db integration

2012-07-11 Thread bfo
David Ostrovsky wrote just for the record: we turned on gerrit's bug-db-integration machinery Hi. I accidentally hovered mouse pointer over fdo#x in some commit today and was surprised that it is linked. Cool that it is enabled. Is it possible to underline it at all times and/or change

[Libreoffice-qa] LibreOffice code coverage

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Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Bug transfer from AOOo Bugzilla to LibO Bugzilla

2012-06-29 Thread bfo
Hi. In regards to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51352#c3 I think that imported bugs which are in RESOLVED FIXED state should get some kind of notification by a triagger. LO devs, with the current backlog, should not waste time for bugs, which are already fixed in the other codebase.

Re: Including a patch from AOO...

2012-06-27 Thread bfo
Hi. There are bug reports on bugs.freedesktop.org imported from AOO which are in RESOLVED FIXED state there. Patches are commited to AOO codebase for some of them. LO devs should reinvent the wheel to fix a fixed issues (just like this thread is all about)? This can impact improving LO quality.

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Cobra - WinLDTP Automation

2012-06-27 Thread bfo
Michael Stahl-2 wrote Linux version is LDTP, Windows version is Cobra and Mac version is PyATOM (Work in progress). can all of these execute the same tests? surely writing tests 3 times is not the way to go. With LDTP and WinLDTP, the script API part will be the same. The only places

[Libreoffice-qa] Cobra - WinLDTP Automation

2012-06-25 Thread bfo
Hi. I stumbled upon Cobra – WinLDTP, Windows version of Linux Desktop Testing Project open sourced by VMWare recently. Using this tool, the GUI functionality of an application can be tested in Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8 development release. Libre/OpenOffice is mentioned. Did

Re: Cleaning bug list

2012-06-21 Thread bfo
Petr Mladek wrote I'd change the workflow a little bit by putting the obvious things at the top: - feature requests aka wishlist I do not have any strong opinion for this. I think that it is is good to be able to discuss features, so enhancement bugs in bugzilla might be usable. - add

Re: What is bibisect? And what is it doing in my office?

2012-06-20 Thread bfo
Jan Holesovsky wrote Hi, On 2012-06-16 at 02:22 -0700, bfo wrote: Not at all - it is even possible to generate a zipped installation, that would be just unpacked, and checked into git; ie. nothing really hard to do. But nobody has done that yet - are you interested? If yes: The best

Re: Cleaning bug list

2012-06-19 Thread bfo
Joel Madero-2 wrote Version 2, changed orientation and tried to take comments into account. Let me know what you all think. Hi. This is a very nice workflow, but I have some questions: - how you define Bug prevent users from making professional quality work? Interoperability issues are a

Re: What is bibisect? And what is it doing in my office?

2012-06-17 Thread bfo
The bibisect is only possible for Bugs which are reproducible under Linux, if Linux has already been excluded (maybe bug history or comments will contain required information) bibisecting will not be possible. But of course, you can use bibisect to find out whether the bug is reproducible

Re: 3.5.3rc1 win32 / debug package ...

2012-06-13 Thread bfo
Petr Mladek wrote Create the wiki pages about getting the windows backtrace. Hi. Draft is available at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/How_to_get_a_backtrace_with_WinDbg. LO Windows developers are asked to comment: - what debug output do they actually need - which additional WinDbg

Re: 3.5.3rc1 win32 / debug package ...

2012-06-04 Thread bfo
Petr Mladek wrote If you prepare the pages and template and if it is easy to add new week, Michael might do it himself in the future. Firefox team is using CreateBox Wiki Extension for minutes - check their wiki page at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform#Meetings Yes, any help is

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] crasher bugs and most annoying bugs generated by automation [was: 3.5.3rc1 win32 / debug package ...]

2012-06-04 Thread bfo
Bjoern Michaelsen wrote Crash counter (search for libreoffice-core): https://errors.ubuntu.com/ Open LibreOffice crasher bugs by most affected users: Open LibreOffice crasher bugs by bug heat: This s very cool. Question - why I have mostly page not find errors when I click in the Bugs

Re: About fdo#47044 crashed when accessing Proxy etc

2012-06-01 Thread bfo
julien2412 wrote Hello, Quite recently, an interesting bt has been published by bfoman about this bug (see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=62055) , here are the top lines : Hi. I just wanted to add, that if there is more I can do to debug it - I will do it (like some WinDbg

Re: About fdo#47044 crashed when accessing Proxy etc

2012-06-01 Thread bfo
julien2412 wrote Quite recently, an interesting bt has been published by bfoman about this bug (see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=62055) , here are the top lines : Also check updated bt at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=62322 -- View this message in

Re: 3.5.3rc1 win32 / debug package ...

2012-06-01 Thread bfo
Michael Meeks-2 wrote On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 11:35 -0700, bfo wrote: I read that you have unused reporting tool in the codebase and plans to bring it back to life. Without it do you know the top crashers? Not really; we rely on human bug filing and QA to bring these to our attention

Re: 3.5.3rc1 win32 / debug package ...

2012-05-28 Thread bfo
bfo wrote As I wrote earlier I have pdb symbols and source links in the WinDbg outputs, but I am concerned about missing FAULTING_SOURCE_LINE and FAULTING_SOURCE_CODE sections. I managed to receive outputs with FAULTING_SOURCE_CODE section just as in Jesus screencast

Re: 3.5.3rc1 win32 / debug package ...

2012-05-25 Thread bfo
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Petr Mladek - pmla...@suse.cz wrote: but I am not sure if my WinDbg output is any good. It is probably less informative without the .pdb files. Anyway, I guess that your are on the right way. As I wrote earlier I have pdb symbols and source links in the WinDbg

Re: 3.5.3rc1 win32 / debug package ...

2012-05-25 Thread bfo
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Petr Mladek - pmla...@suse.cz wrote: We are already using Litmus and are going to migrate to Moztrap. Though, we are not familiar with the real processes that used in the Mozilla project. Do you have any experience with the Mozilla processes? Are you able to

Re: 3.5.3rc1 win32 / debug package ...

2012-05-24 Thread bfo . bugmail
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Petr Mladek - pmla...@suse.cz wrote: Please consider. Always you can ask the friendly guys at Mozilla how to set this all up... Thanks for tip. What a discovery! Seems like complete how to:

Re: 3.5.3rc1 win32 / debug package ...

2012-05-20 Thread bfo . bugmail
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 12:13 +0200, Jesús Corrius wrote: In any case, the right way to do it would be to automatically generate all PDBs for each released version, for example in: solver\wntmsci.pro\pdb. Then we put those generated PDBs online at symbols.libreoffice.org. I think first we should