Monthly Archives: May 2008
Why aren’t our users familiar with backports.org ?
As part of the openoffice.org bug triage I asked users to test their bugs with recent versions of oo.org, and referred the users of the stable branch to backports.org. I got a lot of responses from users saying they didn’t … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux
Ubuntu’s reportbug-ng sends bug reports to Debian’s BTS
I checked the Debian firefox bugs page and noticed a new bug was reported against firefox. Checking the bug report showed the bug is new as it reported against version 3.0b5. As there’s now firefox package in debian testing/unstable that … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, QA stuff, Ubuntu
What can Debian learn from Fedora about recruiting new people?
I’ve been visiting the fedora website in the last couple of days. One thing caught my interest, and that’s the “join Fedora” link just bellow the “get Fedora” one. I clicked on it and got to this very simple “Join … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Fedora, Openoffice.org
Firefox triage has ended – 300+ bugs processed
It took half a year (including a long pause), and the Firefox triage is finally over. The last part, reviewing 120 bug reports took about a month. Starting with 324 bugs, the triage ended with 10 open bugs which I … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Mozilla, QA stuff
