Hi,
Here are the minutes of the QA call today.
attendance: Thorsten, Joel, Bjoern
pending action items:
- merge 3.5 and 3.6 in one big bibisect repo (Bjoern)
- recheck and tweak bibisect details (Bjoern)
- Ping cloph if we can make that switchable to say "Bug" instead of
"EasyHack" when explcitly requested (Bjoern)
- new Bug Hunting Sessions (Cor)
completed action items:
- setup hard hack wiki page (Joel)
structured manual testing (Yifan/Petr):
- no news
bug wrangling:
- no new hardhacks needed this week
- open/closed hardhack overview
AI: - add closed hard hacks to wiki (Joel)
AI: - blog about it (Bjoern)
AI: - lead Joel to get his blog on the planet, once he has one (Bjoern)
- triaging project update (Joel)
- we should poke native lang team (Thorsten)
AI: - poke Sophie about triaging (Bjoern)
- bugzilla contract updates -> postponed, call next week
community building/communication (Joel/Florian?)
- QA Wochenende in Essen
- need more people
- few newcomer
- bibisect for windows very popular
- ping Norbert to go forward with it
- timebased releases still perceived as a problem
- stable is essentially blocked -- it is open for half a year for
critical bugs only and hard hacks are the way to communicate those
to development without overcommitment (Thorsten/Bjoern)
- more testers of master/3.x.0 needed
- marketing storm always hits 3.x.0
- has to be stable enough to prevent backslash
- needs to be announced at this point in time to allow early adopters
bugreporting
- auto updater (Windows)
- initial troubles should be solved now
- activate for which minor? 3.x.2/3.x.3
- maybe offer a update button without popup for early-adopters
in addition (pull-model on request, push at .2/.3) (Bjoern)
- BSA API
- some reservations:
- we have no trouble with the number of initial bug reports
- too easy bugfiling lowers the quality of reported bugs, creating
even more work for bugwranglers
- we are in need of bug wranglers, not so much reporter
- most of 'too late bugs' are not 'not reported', but 'not visible to
dev as a critical bug'
- instead, we should create a landing page on the end of the BSA?
- invite people to:
- confirm bugs
- verify fixed bugs (mostly to motivate more people into running
master)
- maybe even have a menu entry in About for that?
Best,
Bjoern