Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Saying Goodbye

2018-02-15 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 14/02/2018 à 20:52, Jay Philips a écrit : Thank you for all you've done for the project, and for the interesting discusssions we've had along the way :-) Goog luck in your new endeavour. Alex > Hi Guys, > > It has been alot of fun these last 4 years working with the many > libreoffice

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

2017-01-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 13/01/2017 à 15:03, Michael Meeks a écrit : > * make 3.81 (Michael S) > + Mac comes with 3.81 (Cloph) >+ but fine with dropping support for it. >+ if people build with lode – they get a current make anyway (Michael > S) > + recommended (JanI) So, dropping make

[Libreoffice-qa] Blitz on Base bugs

2016-01-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Morning all, So, I see that for some reason which is yet unclear to me, there is currently a blitz on Base bugs from the QA reminder bot. Quite why, I must confess to not understanding. What is the rationale that predicts why it should be likely that any of these bugs have been fixed or have gone

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Blitz on Base bugs

2016-01-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/01/2016 14:01, Jochen Schiffers a écrit : Hi Jochen, > It is IHMO correct (all 6 months) to check if bugreports are actual. > The problem is that only one (and occasionally two) devs actually is/are > working on the code. But this not the problem of QA. I never said it was the problem of

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Building or bibisecting

2015-12-01 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 01/12/2015 15:56, Sophie a écrit : Hi Sophie, > Hi all, > > I would like to know who here is frequently building LibreOffice or is > bibisecting on a regular basis? > You can either answer on the list or directly to me if you prefer. > Thanks a lot in advance for your feedback I try and

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Reminder: QA Meeting on Wednesday

2015-11-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/11/2015 17:00, Cor Nouws a écrit : Hi Cor, > In the early days, there was the meme that we needed good bug reports. > Then that changed to good sample documents; tThen finding the first > affected version; and now bibisecting. You forgot the "please provide a full backtrace with symbols"

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Gathering OpenGL info

2015-10-05 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/10/2015 13:04, Yousuf 'Jay' Philips a écrit : Hi Jay, > Hi All, > > I've just added info to the OpenGL wiki page on how to get a computer's > OpenGL details so QA can instruct users to provide this when they are > reporting bugs related to this. The OpenGL Driver Monitor only seems to

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Collabora LibreOffice Vanilla QA on OSX

2015-06-25 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/06/2015 20:17, Andras Timar a écrit : Hi all, For the consequences of the build switches, as I understand them, see below : Please find below the build configurations Collabora used: LibreOffice-from-Collabora: --disable-ext-ct2n --disable-ext-google_docs

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Collabora LibreOffice Vanilla QA on OSX

2015-06-25 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 25/06/2015 10:04, Andras Timar a écrit : Hi Andras, Generally, you can read configure.ac for the meaning of build switches. It would eliminate the guesswork. Yes, I tried that too, but the help that one gets from configure.ac is sometimes less than enlightening. AFAIK there are no

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Collabora LibreOffice Vanilla QA on OSX

2015-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/06/2015 15:21, Robinson Tryon a écrit : How differently is it built? My understanding is that it's pretty close, but I haven't had a chance to really delve into the details. As we likely will start to see bugs showing up in Bugzilla, it might be good for us to make some notes for QA,

[Libreoffice-qa] Collabora LibreOffice Vanilla QA on OSX

2015-06-22 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, Just a heads up to say that I won't / can't / don't have the time / energy to QA LibreOffice Vanilla for OSX as released by Collabora - I barely have time enough to try and keep the unconfirmed bug count down on OSX, without having to deal with a version that is apparently built

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] daily dbgutil bibisect: Calc fails since 2015-06-05

2015-06-11 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 11/06/2015 09:58, Lyubomir Yotov a écrit : Hy Lyubo, Hi Terry, I have the same issue with this on FreeBSD 10.1. Have you managed to find a workaround? This is now fixed for me on OSX with current master. Alex ___ List Name:

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] daily dbgutil bibisect: Calc fails since 2015-06-05

2015-06-09 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 08/06/2015 21:22, Terrence Enger a écrit : Hi Terry, This problem first happens with version of 2015-06-05. Has anybody else seen this? Any suggestions? Steve has seen this on OSX too, and I met the same message when testing mmy own master build from 2 days ago. Alex

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] potential MAB5.0

2015-05-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/05/2015 11:36, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol a écrit : I thought we had stopped making bugs blockers and MABs. Have I misunderstood something ? Alex ___ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org

[Libreoffice-qa] Performance regression of Impress file opening in LO5 OSX

2015-04-22 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, Just wanted to make you all aware of tdf #90773, which highlights a fairly severe performance issue when opening an ODP file in LO5 compared to LO44 production release. It would be interesting to have feedback from testers on other OSes, if only to confirm that it is Mac specific.

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Bugs with Backtrace but Not Reproduced

2015-03-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/03/2015 16:00, Joel Madero a écrit : There doesn't seem to be a backtrace with bug 89628, or did I miss something ? Alex ___ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings:

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Bugs with Backtrace but Not Reproduced

2015-03-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/03/2015 16:00, Joel Madero a écrit : No backtrace on bug 89844 either ? Alex ___ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings:

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] QA Team: Get ready to rumble with robots! (Android Viewer is here)

2015-01-22 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 22/01/2015 09:34, Robinson Tryon a écrit : in addition to opening a number of different documents, it's prone to crash at times. This latter statement is particularly true. Only to be expected for beta software I suppose. Tested so far on a Sony Experia Z2 phone, Android 4.4. Other than

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Keyword bisected

2015-01-05 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/01/2015 17:23, Joel Madero a écrit : I don't bibisect, much less bisect, so although have seen this in a few bug reports, I haven't been inclined to use it ;-) Alex ___ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address:

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] mab4.2 to mab4.3 migration almost over

2014-12-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/12/2014 13:40, Tommy a écrit : of the original 83 mab4.2 that were open at the time of 4.2.x EOL, 12 turned to be RESOLVED WORKSFORME in the 4.3.x or 4.4.x branch. More of interest to me would be to know how many of the moved MABs are : - more than 1 year old ; - more than 2 years old

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] mab4.2 to mab4.3 migration almost over

2014-12-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/12/2014 18:16, Joel Madero a écrit : Shifting MABs is a convenient way of ignoring long-felt problems, sprucing up the QA stats, and a bit like ignoring back pain and hoping it will somehow go away. I don't think it's a convenient way of ignoring - it's just our workflow and has

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Call of Tools - Options - LibreOfficeDev Base - Connections crashes master

2014-10-07 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/10/2014 10:20, Thomas Hackert a écrit : Well, I prefer the UserInstallation=$ORIGIN/.. entry, as LO then creates its config folder in /path/to/instdir instead of creating it somewhere in .config. So I just need to rm -rf /path/to instdir instead of running two times rm -rf ... ;)

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Post Building MySQL connectors for 32 and 64 bit versions for LibreOffice 4.3 in Linux

2014-10-02 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 02/10/2014 16:38, Robert Großkopf a écrit : Hi Robert, place. Not long ago there was a third place for a connector for Mac - couldn't find this connector any more ... I had it removed by the admin as I could no longer build a functional connector for Mac - that has changed for the time

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Post Building MySQL connectors for 32 and 64 bit versions for LibreOffice 4.3 in Linux

2014-10-02 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 02/10/2014 17:50, Dan Lewis a écrit : You raise a very good point. The first link was my creation last year for the Linux version. Since then, someone else has created the second link for windows. it would be nice if that person and I could get together to combine all of the mysql

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Post Building MySQL connectors for 32 and 64 bit versions for LibreOffice 4.3 in Linux

2014-10-01 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 01/10/2014 18:10, Thomas Hackert a écrit : Hi Thomas, Thank you very much :) Just out of interest: After I installed the version from extension.l.o and then wanted to install your *_1.oxt version, the Extension Manager asked me, if I wanted to replace my already installed 1.0.3 with

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] MySQL native connector for OS X

2014-09-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/09/2014 04:40, Dan Lewis a écrit : Follow-up question to the second paragraph: Can some one point me in the right direction to build the MySQL native connectors for Linux 32 and 64 bit? I seem to have lost the instructions that Alex provided me with a couple of years ago. (He was

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] MySQL native connector for OS X

2014-09-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/09/2014 11:45, Dan Lewis a écrit : Preliminary needed programs: 1) apt-cache search gnome-vfs 2) sudo apt-get install libgnome-vfsmm-2.6-dev Building the native connector 1) sudo apt-get install git 2) sudo apt-get build-dep libreoffice some of the above

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] MySQL native connector for OS X

2014-09-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 22/09/2014 17:59, Dan Lewis a écrit : Hi Dan, Can MySQL be accessed on an Apple computer using a native connector? If so, what is the URL for where it is located? If not, how can it be accessed and the URL for the connector's location? See my answer to you on the users list. A

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Media Support in LibreOffice

2014-09-01 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 29/08/2014 18:43, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : Further testing : OSX : 10.9.4 LO : own master build 4.4.0 - no VLC build switch Special conditions : removed libavQuickTimelo.dylib from installed application bundle Loaded my test Impress file containing the inserted video files from bug

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Media Support in LibreOffice

2014-08-29 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 29/08/2014 16:19, Robinson Tryon a écrit : Hi Robinson, Thanks -- I've added a section about test media here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Media_Support#Media_for_Tests The comments you attribute to me from IRC were in fact Tor's ;-) I am currently building a new master, and will

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Media Support in LibreOffice

2014-08-29 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 29/08/2014 16:19, Robinson Tryon a écrit : Tested today in QuickTime 10.3 with Perian installed : AVI (IV4L codec) WMV (WMV3/WMV9, WMA2) OGV (Xiph Theora, VORBIS) None of the above video containers could be read by QuickTime, with or without Perian. Note that Perian over QT appears as a

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Media Support in LibreOffice

2014-08-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi, Le 26/08/2014 21:01, Robinson Tryon a écrit : On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Alexander Thurgood At present, the video codecs for which support was removed by Apple in QuickTime 10.3 are converted on the fly to Apple's current H264 codec. I'm not sure what you mean: Are you

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Base 4.3.0.4 has serious problems with forms with subforms within subforms

2014-08-09 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 08/08/2014 20:49, Dan Lewis a écrit : Dan, There are now three bug reports on this particular problem: 81976, 82150 (mine), and 82151 (filed by the person who mentioned the problem in the user list). I have marked mine as a duplicate of 81976. Between the three bug reports, there

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Anybody got a printer and an envelope

2014-07-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/07/2014 10:32, Christian Lohmaier a écrit : This might be related to not having the proper printer driver installed, but only the basic windows provided one. Then you get all sorts of funny problems that basically boil down to not being able to use/select envelope sized paper in the

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Anybody got a printer and an envelope

2014-07-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/07/2014 10:32, Christian Lohmaier a écrit : Other than those cited by Jay, it might also be related to any of the other envelope printing bug reports : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=libreoffice%20envelopelist_id=445636 Alex

[Libreoffice-qa] BZ appears to be truncating entries in the detail field

2013-08-22 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, Has someone changed something recently in the BZ configuration that drastically limits the capacity of the Detail field in BZ ? If so, why ? I am trying to open a new report for an ODBC problem, and each time my details keep getting truncated. Alex

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] QA for GSoC project

2013-05-29 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 28/05/13 16:15, Cao Cuong Ngo a écrit : Hi, Sounds good. I can test on OSX, Linux 32bit (Ubuntu-based), and possibly WinXP. Alex ___ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings:

[Libreoffice-qa] Mac OSX QA'ers

2013-05-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, Just out of interest, who else on here (apart from Roman) can test master/daily builds on OSX ? My problem is that we are not supposed to confirm our own bug findings, but if there are not enough QA'ers on a given OS, what else can we do ? FYI, I have found a new regression in the

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Consistent Time for Meetings

2013-04-11 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 11/04/13 01:42, Joel Madero a écrit : Hi Joel, all, So again, I'm happy to stick with 1300 UTC/GMT if it's best for everyone, if others are open to alternative times here is what I prefer. M/T/W/F - 1400 UTC/GMT (one hour later than currently set) M-F - 1900 - 2000 (start time between

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Bug 63388: Mail Merge Email

2013-04-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 10/04/13 17:50, Dan Lewis a écrit : Hi Dan, I have filed this bug because I can not get LibreOffice to test the settings I enter into Tools Options LibreOffice Writer Main Merge. It freezes everytime. All the information I enter is copied from the Account Settings in

[Libreoffice-qa] Template Manager - performance issues, and no new folder create function when saving as template ?

2013-01-09 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, I was looking through the new (and IMHO visually much improved) Template Manager again and have come across what appears to be a performance hit and a bug, or at the very least, a non-implemented feature. My build uses the extra templates provided by Kami's OxygenOffice extension, so I

[Libreoffice-qa] Template Manager and Template Previews on Mac OSX

2012-11-30 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, In my master build from 26/11/2012, when I open the Template Manager from the StartCenter, I can choose to Preview the templates in my collection by clicking on the appropriate button/toggle switch. This is with the old-style template manager dialog, i.e. not the new fangled UI which

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Please Triage These (Bugs from 2011)

2012-09-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 07/09/12 17:56, Joel Madero a écrit : Hi Joel, There are 12 bugs from 2011 that haven't been triaged. I think they have been kind of ignored because they require certain things (such as Mac or UX input or advanced computer understanding :) ). Could someone(s) please get these done, then

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Base - database - registration

2012-08-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 22/08/12 22:56, Jochen a écrit : Hi Jochen, On the German discuss-ML we are currently discussing following questions: If a database-file (odb-file) is opened must this database be registered in LibreOffice? We have observed that some people can´t use a odb-file without registration in LO

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Insulting comments in bug reports: what should we do?

2012-07-18 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Roman, Le 18/07/12 18:42, Roman Eisele a écrit : This is a good consideration, too, and implies that the best thing to do may be just to ignore insulting comments completely and to continue with the real work. Maybe this is the best way to proceed for now, but I am not sure; I still

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [Libreoffice] RFC Operation Spamzilla

2011-12-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Rainer, Le 23/12/11 08:34, Rainer Bielefeld a écrit : If you want to do the bulk change, you should avoid to change hundreds of Really NEW old bugs to NEEDINFO. I recommend only to modify bugs what are NEW and fulfill some additional criteria (no user with QA-Experience is involved),

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] automated testing of Base

2011-10-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Terry, Le 06/10/11 16:40, Terrence Enger a écrit : I can only speak from my perspective of an enterprise user, and thus possibly biased ;-) Do we have a feeling for what databases are most used for real with Base? Or how they are used? ODBC is still used as an enterprise-wide solution in

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] New way for non coders to help with calc unit tests

2011-10-01 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 30/09/11 22:37, Markus Mohrhard a écrit : Hi Markus, Thanks for the heads up and the work on preparing the ground and basics for what I hope will be a very useful addition to the unit testing of LibreOffice. Although I'm not much of a Calc user myself, I will have a look at what has been