Category Archives: QA stuff
Openoffice.org User Survey 2009
I found out that openoffice.org are running a user survey, and thought that should be more public. Please help improve the OpenOffice.org office suite by completing this survey. It will take about 15 minutes and will increase our understanding of … Continue reading
Filed under Openoffice.org, QA stuff
RTL related issues fixed in openoffice.org 3.1
Openoffice.org Ninja already covered some of the new RTL features with openoffice.org 3.1, mainly RTL enabled controls (#30631). But following the bugzilla issues, it seems that version 3.1 also includes fixes for more RTL related issues. Here is a list … Continue reading
Filed under i18n & l10n, Openoffice.org, Proud to use free software, QA stuff
kSar – Fixing bugs (almost) online
While working with kSar to visulize sar’s statistics, a friend found a bug with kSar. Most IT people don’t think they can have access to the developers, I reminded my friend that we’re dealing with an open source application and … Continue reading
The disadvantege of language packs in Ubuntu
I’ve encounterd a bug in launchpad about adding a new gnucash translation to the Hebrew language pack. Nothing out of the ordinary excepts that for every upstream translation update you should file a bug to update the language pack. A … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, i18n & l10n, QA stuff, Ubuntu
The 2nd Debian Openoffice.org bug triage has ended – 300+ bugs processed
The 2nd bug triage began with 285 bugs, which grow to around 310 bugs, since during the 4 months of the triage more bugs were reported. So, I’m glad to announce the beginning of (my) 2nd openoffice.org bug triage. This … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Openoffice.org, QA stuff
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
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
Continuing the 2nd Debian Openoffice.org bug triage
Short version: 155 bugs processed, 130 bugs to go… Reminder: The target of this triage is to clean all bugs not relevant for version 2.4.0 in Debian. Openoffice.org 2.4.0 entered Lenny (testing) two weeks ago, and last week Rene created … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Openoffice.org, QA stuff
Closing old Firefox bugs
Back in October I ran a Firefox/Iceweasel bug triage which resulted in handling 60% of the bugs. 5 months later, this leaves ~130 bugs which I’d like to close as the submitters aren’t responsive (2/3 pings as usual). It will … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Mozilla, QA stuff
Status of the binNMU unsafe packages
Back in July, I started reporting bugs against binNMU unsafe packages. All reports include a patch, to ease the work of the maintainer. During the last 8 months 58 bugs were closed and 19 more and still open. Resulting in … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, QA stuff
