Re: 3.5.3rc1 win32 / debug package ...

Hi there,

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; of course, lots of users simply don't bother to file bugs,
but hopefully we get some reports for these.

> Per platform? Per branch? I do not see such information in ESC minutes
>  (btw: could you put them also in the wiki?).

        Anyone is welcome to put / link them into whatever wiki page they
like :-) if you want it - go for it ! I'm happy to add a link to it at
the bottom of my template so it's easy to find in future.

> Also I am really concerned about your QA priorities. IMHO you should
> care little more about Windows builds and MS Office filters.

        Who is the 'you' here ? you are one of us if you're helping out :-) The
priorities of participants are highly directed by what interests them,
and plenty of people are working on fixing interop. bugs / missing
interop. features / problems etc.

        However, getting the best and fastest possible list of and
prioritisation of bugs is a crucial task of QA - along with finding them
though of course we have no really firm roles, many people try to do a
bit of everything. So I see UI people send patches, hackers do QA,
packagers do website work etc. etc. ;-)

> Sadly I'm not QA specialist. I just decided to help LO project by
> confirming as many bugs as I can find in Bugzilla. Hope this will help
> increase the quality of LO for Windows in any way...

        Certainly - it's a really good way to help out. There is no need for
expert skills or experience, just persistence and passion :-) Thanks so
much for getting involved, having timely bug reports of windows specific
regressions, particularly those with stack traces etc. is excessively
helpful & really speeds up their fixing.

        Thanks !

                Michael.

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