QA/Meetings/2014/August 27

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    Date and Time (UTC) 2014-08-27 17:30 UTC
    G+ Hangout http://bit.ly/LibO_QA_call_hangout
    Chair Robinson Tryon
    Secretary Robinson Tryon
    Started

    17:32

    Adjourned

    18:06

    Participants

    colonelqubit (Robinson)
    Sweetshark (Bjoern)
    jphilipz (Jay Philips)
    Liongold (Jean Spiteri)
    Reisi007 (Florian Reisinger)

    Pad http://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/qa
    Talkyoo Room Number 537138

    Prep

    Agenda + Minutes

    Minutes:

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    Before we Start

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    Start

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    IRC Minutes

    NOTE: We're trying something a bit different today -- we're going to have a much shorter meeting (15-30 min) in IRC.

    We'll touch on a few metrics such as UNCONFIRMED bug count and regressions, and then we'll have each person in the meeting bring up whatever QA topics they'd like to address.

    colonelqubit:



    Quick QA Chat --- in 8 minutes


    01:23:04 PM

    colonelqubit: ...just a reminder :-)
    ...

    START: 01:33:47 PM
    colonelqubit: Okay all, time for a quick chat? 01:33:47 PM
    Reisi007: colonelqubit: yep

    UNCONFIRMED COUNT
    colonelqubit: UNCONFIRMED bugs: 866
    colonelqubit: That's up 44, not too bad
    colonelqubit: We've got a QA 'LibreFest' bug triaging event planned for Oct 26th in Seattle, WA
    colonelqubit: I'm hoping to put a serious dent in our UNCONFIRMED bugs at that point
    colonelqubit: (and recruit for the QA Team)

    Multimedia on macOS
    colonelqubit: I've also been working on Multimedia this week
    colonelqubit: Some of you have seen https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Media_Support
    colonelqubit: jphilipz and others have done some great work testing out what works on different platforms
    colonelqubit: tl;dr for Apple is that they're overhauling their media framework, so our existing QuickTime code is shifting to AVFramework
    colonelqubit: that means that (for the moment) we may only support a few codecs on macOS 10.9+
    Reisi007: colonelqubit: bad...
    colonelqubit: Yep, it's really bad
    Reisi007: Whats with VLC integration?
    colonelqubit: VLC integration is a possibility, but there are several drawbacks
    colonelqubit: Apparently one big hurdle is that to play frame 'n' of a video, you have to play frames 1...n-1
    Reisi007: colonelqubit: ok, didn't know that
    colonelqubit: I'm going to chat with meeks and then the VLC devs and see if there's a possibility of us working together to improve how we can use libvlc
    Reisi007: +1


    Regressions
    colonelqubit: regression counts aren't too bad. Regressions in 4.3 not in 4.2 - 52, Regressions in 4.2 not in 4.1 - 104 (that went down!), Query for bibisected regressions: Bibisected bugs - 152


    SI-GUI Rename
    Reisi007: colonelqubit: I think I will rename SI-GUI
    Reisi007: Needs icon and app name
    Reisi007: If you have an idea
    colonelqubit: I'll think about it
    Reisi007: Or whom to talk to
    colonelqubit: So it's a parallel installer/multi-installer, right?
    Reisi007: colonelqubit: read the siri regression I mailed, or did I not CC you?
    Reisi007: colonelqubit: yes "administrative installation" and downloader and manager
    colonelqubit: Hmm
    colonelqubit: Like a swiss army knife
    jphilipz: LibreOffice Paralaller
    colonelqubit: LibreOffice-Windows-Multitool
    Reisi007: colonelqubit: naming rules
    colonelqubit: hmm?
    Reisi007: Somewhrer in wiki
    Reisi007: " LibreOffice SI-GUI" is not allowed e.g.
    colonelqubit: oh, 'cause it's not an official tool
    colonelqubit: gotcha
    colonelqubit: Something like "MultiOffice for Windows" ?
    Reisi007: colonelqubit: MultiLibO 4 Windows
    colonelqubit: is abbreviation okay?
    Reisi007: (Downloads libreoffice only)
    Reisi007: colonelqubit: the name must not dtart with LibO
    Reisi007: Installer 4 LibreOffice is okay
    Reisi007: imho
    colonelqubit: Windows Toolbelt 4 LibreOffice
    jphilipz: LibO Parallel Installer
    jphilipz: LPI

    • Sweetshark reads backlog

    colonelqubit: Let's see ... anything else I wanted to cover


    NeedAdvice Bugs
    colonelqubit: NeedAdvice bugs dropped to 22
    colonelqubit: Aside from the multimedia stuff, anything else I should bring to the ESC?
    colonelqubit: Reisi007: any other topics you'd like to bring up?


    LibreOffice Conference - Bern
    Reisi007: colonelqubit: nope. Maybe we will meet on Tue
    Reisi007: How to organise things?
    colonelqubit: Organize what things?
    Reisi007: @LibOConf
    Reisi007: Personal meeting on Tue
    colonelqubit: Ah, okay
    Reisi007: I arrive in the afternoon at the train station
    jphilipz: please make sure that the talks are recorded, as i wont be able to make it :(
    colonelqubit: I have a couple of meetings on Tuesday. I'll have email access at my room and the venue, so let's try email
    colonelqubit: jphilipz: Yes, it sounds like we're going to try to record all of the talks
    colonelqubit: jphilipz: Anything you want to bring up in this chat?
    Reisi007: colonelqubit: i do not know, if i have wlan
    jphilipz: i got accepted into TDF
    jphilipz: :D

    • colonelqubit cheers

    Sweetshark: \o/
    Reisi007: I have Internet
    Reisi007: jphilipz: great to hear
    jphilipz: wonder if Liongold_away got his TDF membership approved
    colonelqubit: Reisi007: okay, then let's coordinate over email
    Reisi007: One thing from me
    Reisi007: Wait a dec, need to look up something
    colonelqubit: okay, while you're looking up stuff, anything from Sweetshark?


    Siri Speech-to-text broken in LO 4.3
    Reisi007: Fdo#81759
    IZBot: LibreOffice-BASIC normal/medium NEW the Speech Editor Siri of macOS 10.9.4 does not work with Libreoffice 4.3.0.3 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81759
    Reisi007: this user tracked it down as " after bisect"
    Reisi007: Means "between apha0 and rc4"
    Reisi007: Can we do something to help him track it down more?
    colonelqubit: Reisi007: well we can narrow it down to two builds
    Reisi007: colonelqubit: no bisect in that period
    colonelqubit: Right, but alpha0 - rc4 has a few builds in that range, right?
    colonelqubit: So we can at least narrow-down to two of them


    QA/CI Workshops
    Sweetshark: colonelqubit: not really - mind is empty.

    • Sweetshark is preparing for talks in Bern

    Sweetshark: hope to see you all in the QA and CI workshops in Bern!
    Reisi007: Sweetshark: looking forward to it
    Reisi007: Tue-Thr
    jphilipz: Sweetshark: make sure they are recorded :)
    Sweetshark: jphilipz: Ill do my best
    jphilipz: Sweetshark: is your talk topics listed somewhere
    Sweetshark: jphilipz: conference.libreoffice.org
    Liongold_away: back
    jphilipz: Sweetshark: okay which category
    Liongold: jphilipz: Congrats on becoming a member of TDF. Yes, I was accepted in July
    jphilipz: Liongold: thanks


    Bugzilla Migration
    colonelqubit: On my side, I'm going to do some testing of Bugzilla in preparation for our migration. I may ask for some help testing in the next couple of weeks.
    Liongold: colonelqubit: If I can help with Bugzilla, please tell me
    colonelqubit: Liongold: yes, definitely
    colonelqubit: I said I'd keep this meeting short, so is there anything else?


    Next Meeting
    colonelqubit: Okay, thanks for the quick chat, folks. Our next meeting is tentatively scheduled for the same time in 2 weeks (Sept. 10th).
    colonelqubit: Please post on the 'QA Call Time' thread your preferences for when to meet, even if you'd like to keep the same time. 02:06:52 PM
    Sweetshark: colonelqubit: thanks for leading!

    • Sweetshark is off for the evening.
    • colonelqubit waves


    END: 02:06:52 PM

    The State of QA

    Including any Opening Discussion

    • xx- Bugzilla migration
      • Updates...
      • Re: need to reset passwords
        • Email notification ahead of migration
        • Tweak the change-password page and the front page to indicate that people will need to reset their passwords
        • Create an 'About our new Bugzilla' video as a part of our 'Intro to QA' series
    • Bugzilla:
      • SUGGESTION: Use bugs.documentfoundation.org/ to host Bugzilla
      • We can have both LibreOffice and some of the Document Liberation Project libraries all exist as top-level products in the bugtracker
    • QUESTION: Should we refocus ourselves as the TDF QA Team (to cover LibreOffice, DLP, etc.. ?)
    • ACTION: Send thank-yous to Xamarin and Michael's brother (Joel)

    weekly status

    UNCONFIRMED Bugs

    UNCONFIRMED bug count:

    • July 30th: 712
    • Today: 822
    • Difference: 110
    • ACTION: Joel will come up with strategies (bloggers? other marketing?) to get us under 500 UNCONFIRMED over the summer (by the end of August)

    Regression watch (Bjoern)

    • ACTION: Joel will dig through bibisected and regressions confirmed bugs and prioritize according to flowchart

    Topics for ESC?

    Does anyone have any topics/concerns that I should bring to the Engineering Steering Committee (ESC)? (Robinson)

    needAdvice Bugs

    needAdvice bugs

    • Previous counts: 80+, 32, 32, 29, 23, 24

    Pending Items

    PENDING ITEM: Auto-updates for regular users and QA Testing

    • ACTION: Investigate auto-updates for regular users and/or for QA/testing purposes (Robinson)
    • ACTION: Open discussion again re:auto-update for QA on the mailing list (Robinson)
      • Related: tdf#78592 - "LibreOffice-Installation enhancement/medium NEW UI: Provide RSS feed for torrent downloads" (Joel)
    • PUNTED: Bring up proposal to use Mozilla updater tooling for LibreOffice (Robinson)

    PENDING ITEM: Bugzilla Migration etc.

    • ACTION: Organize time to stress-test new Bugzilla VM (Joel)
    • ACTION: Make sure to suppress outgoing email during our testing of the test Bugzilla (Robinson)
    • ACTION: Perhaps add Simple HTTP Auth (htaccess) control restricting access to https://bugzilla-test.documentfoundation.org/ (Robinson/Norbert)
    • ACTION: Resolve url for hosting our Bugzilla instance (Joel)
      • Deal with acronym if using tdf.org url (tdf# ?)
    • ACTION: Set up call and/or thread(s) with the useful people on a mailing list (Robinson)
      • May 22 - Started process
      • June - Need to follow-up again with key people re: current progress (Robinson)

    PENDING ITEM: Bibisect Repositories

    • ACTION: Chat w/Bjoern, etc... re: updates to bibisect repos (Robinson)
      • Propose docs on testing w/3.3.0 separately to place bugs in pre-LO category (Robinson)
    • ACTION: Provide documentation for mac bibisect on wiki (Norbert)
      • Perhaps ask Cloph for help re: Bibisect stuff, and keep Norbert's cycles free for Bugzilla migration

    To review:

    • IDEA: Add bibisect into regular Developer workflow
    • IDEA: Create graph/tool to show which builds contain a given commit

    PENDING ITEM: GUI for Bibisect

    • ACTION: Review BibiGUI -- any Windows/C# Python volunteer dev (Bjoern)
      • June 19 - Joel may have found a volunteer?
    • ACTION: Create an EasyHack a bug for the process of rewriting the existing C# code in Python (or Java) (Florian R.)
    • ACTION: Joel will poke the new guy again on email that showed up with dev experience

    Related:

    • ACTION: SI-GUI: Contact the people running "interesting" Windows tinderboxes and ask for their assistance (Florian R.)

    PENDING ITEM: Hackfests

    • ACTION: Check on status of LibreOffice building in the cloud for hackfests (Robinson)
      • Included in the notes for hackfest planning

    Update on:

    PENDING ITEM: Whiteboard Naming Conventions

    • ACTION: Update tags in the whiteboard to use 'wimpyCaps' (ALL)
      • We had a discussion about filter:xxx, and not sure we found a perfect resolution...
    • Also continue to clarify the use of capitals in the whiteboard, etc..

    PENDING ITEM: Discuss usefulness of QA project in Redmine

    PENDING ITEM: QA Budget

    Some ideas for our possible QA Budget

    • Host bibisect repo in the cloud -- use VNC to connect
      • Testing builds in the cloud @ the Boston Hackfest -- good for 1-off testing, but slow for 10 bibisects in a row (Robinson)
      • Perhaps a good target for onboarding (Bjoern)
        • Makes things run very quickly, get people hooked
      • We can spin-up a new machine for each person we're onboarding
    • Daily builds (also in the cloud?)
    • SDK tutorial?
      • Get python community interested in LibreOffice
      • Python IDE support for creating LibreOffice extensions?
        • Can be beneficial for both communities
      • Need to find someone in Python community to help move this forward
    • Hackfest hardware
      • Especially helpful when we don't have good bandwidth/stable connection
    • Other items
      • Crash reporter for Windows
      • Moztrap improvements
        • Ask sophie about a solid proposal for what could be done
      • Native-lang BSA for more projects
        • Biggest hurdle is getting native-lang communities to sign-up for long-term commitment to deal with bug reports (Robinson)

    Long-term/Frozen Pending Items

    These are long-term or frozen items (i.e. on ice until something else happens) that we don't want to forget about...

    PENDING ITEM: MozTrap Localization

    • ACTION: MozTrap translation (GUI and tests) continues to be high-priority for QA (Needs someone to shepherd)

    To review:

    • Other project who might want to work on translating GUI w/us?

    PENDING ITEM: Feedback pages

    • ACTION: Sophie will shepherd native-lang versions of Feedback page

    To review:

    • Next steps for NL versions (bug #?)

    PENDING ITEM: US Merch Store

    • (Future progress)

    PENDING ITEM: Most Annoying Bug List

    • ACTION: Joel will propose stricter guidelines for what qualifies as a MAB

    To review:

    • How is the test going? (using the 'Priority' field in Bugzilla)

    References:

    PENDING ITEM: Talk to CS Department/others at University

    • ACTION: Put up a message on the message board at his University and see who is interested (Joel)
      • Need to meet w/Charlie R. to talk with his Uni contacts as well


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