Hi all,
here are the minutes of the qa call on 2012-03-23 15:00 UTC:
attendants: Cor, Rainer, Markus, Petr, Kendy, Bjoern
* pending action items
- Check if test documents are URLs properly distributed to Checkbox (Bjoern)
- Update/Create active triagers wiki page (Cor/Rainer)
- Publish Rainers charts'n data on blog/planets (Cor)
- collect further ideas for spending a dedicated resource (Cor/Rainer)
-> blocked: to get a concise list need to make a CaseConductor/Litmus
choice
- Set Cor up with the Community/Forum maintainers at the distros
to better propagate Hackfests, Bug Hunting Sessions etc.
(Petr, Caolan, others?)
- Walkthrough setup at Hackfest to find out what need better docs
(Bjoern/Rainer)
- Setting up a ready-to-go VirtualBox with everything installed would be
cool (Bjoern/Korrawit?)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47648
- automated test docs: really straightforward for Calc, just needs more
CSV test documents (all)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47667
* completed action items
- copypaste existing manual tests a one off for 3.5/Precise
-> done by Nicholas Skaggs and Kaldor from the Ubuntu community. Kudos!
- Provide Cor with suitable queries as possible with current means (Rainer)
- Create some QA EasyHacks (Bjoern)
http://sweetshark.livejournal.com/9491.html
- Set Cor up with the Community/Forum maintainers at the distros
to better propagate Hackfests, Bug Hunting Sessions etc.
(Bjoern)
* structured manual testing: (Yifan, Rimas, Bjoern)
- Litmus to Checkbox done for 3.5 (Nicholas Skaggs)
- we should also tap into the l10n testers, it might be worthwhile to get
them into not only testing l10n but also functionality along the way (Cor)
- OpenID for Litmus would be awesome
- ... but Litmus EOL at Mozilla, however CaseConductor (the replacement)
might not suit our needs/be an overkill
AA - needs serious investigation if CaseConductor suits us or if its
awesome for Mozilla but not for our usecase (Pedro)
- Litmus proposal at:
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Libreoffice-qa-Litmus-a-proposal-td3845560.html
(If we greenlight that, it spawns a lot of action items 
)
- essentially means devs drop oneliners with affected area for commits
along with review requests to the list (Bjoern)
- Devs are already overcommited with their current tasks (Petr)
- QA even more so given their current resources (Cor)
- whatever form of communication/workflow we set up, we should trying it
on the release branch first, becaus of commit volume (Bjoern)
- this info really should be in the commit messages (Petr/Kendy?)
- otherwise we should make it a custom for devs to CC the QA-list as we
do with ux-advise, which works reasonably well (Petr)
AA - propose proactive QA-list CCing on ESC (Bjoern)
- as long as Litmus is not easily accessable this is pretty much in vain
- alternative: Wiki or Blog instead of Litmus?
- Blog, not Wiki (broader audiences) (Kendy?)
AA - Blog regularly about affected areas with call for testing (Cor/Bjoern?)
* bugwrangling (Rainer)
- we are missing queries counting comments and not only reports (Cor)
-> possible task
- OpenID for bugzilla would be awesome
- 3.4.6 release testing
- few reports, but focus likely shifted to 3.5 (Rainer)
AA - provide Cor with dl numbers so we can confirm this (Petr)
- 3.5 status
- good progress (Rainer)
- more windows build would be good (Rainer)
- new Prague tinderbox should solve that (Kendy?)
- release plan discussion redux
- skipped, conclusion on list discussion suggested to be no urgent need
for "fixing"
* community building/communication (Cor)
- https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Easy_Hacks
- some critic about the blunt invitation to join QA on the BSA (Rainer)
- the QA wiki page not a good entry point (Rainer)
(no concrete actionable tasks there)
- we need competent QA, not just anyone (Rainer)
- we should work on two levels, with different approaches: (Bjoern)
- newcomers
- good current contributors on bugzilla
- maybe concentrate on exactly _one_ easy to communicate task for
starters as landing page after BSA: bug confirmation (Bjoern)
AA - create a newbie-friendly wiki-page just about bug confirmation (Rainer)
- good current contributors should be motivated/encouraged
AA - kindly ask them to introduce themselves on the QA-list or even blog
about (both developer interview style) (Cor/Bjoern)
AA - link to ask.libreoffice.org from get-help on the frontpage
* automated calc testing (Markus)
AA - provide some examples what scope a 'feature' is to get people an idea
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47667 (Markus)
AA - invite a broad audience (and endusers) to provide testdocs there (all)
* bibisect for 3.5 (Caolan hinted at that)
- postponed to the next call
* next call: will be at 1400UTC (one hour earlier because of summertime)
2012-04-06 1400UTC
Accompanying IRC channel for the calls is #libreoffice on freenode.
Because of some interfering tasks I couldnt write down the minutes right after
the call, thus all additions and corrections are most welcome.
