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Report: LibreOffice Bug Hunting Session in Taiwan

2018-12-042018-12-04

LibreOffice’s worldwide community is active in many parts of the project – in development, localisation, documentation, design, marketing and more. There’s also the Quality Assurance (QA) community, which focuses on identifying and fixing bugs. At a recent event in Taiwan, a Bug Hunting Session took place to check bug reports, as Franklin Weng explains…

This event was based on a course in the department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University. Professor Joseph Chung-Ping Young directed this course named “FOSS Community and Development”.

On November 29, we held a three-hour “LibreOffice Bug Triage Experience” event. A total of 70 students from NCKU and three members of The Document Foundation (Franklin Weng, Cheng-Chia Tseng and Jeff Huang) attended. First, Franklin introduced Bugzilla and the bug issue lifecycle: Report -> Confirm (Triage) -> Patch -> Code Review -> Close. In this event we installed the daily build master version of LibreOffice and focused on three things:

For issues marked as UNCONFIRMED, we tried to reproduce (confirm) them.

For issues marked as NEW, we tried to test if they has been solved in the master version.

For issues marked as REOPENED, we tried to make sure if the bugs were reproducible in the master version.

Students searched for these three kinds of bugs and randomly chose one to examine. The three TDF members helped and guided students during the whole session. In a short time, students found that it was a lot easier than they expected, so they were quite happy, excited and confident. We roughly estimate that in total, more than 100 bugs were confirmed/reported as not reproducible.

Thanks to Franklin Weng, Cheng-Chia Tseng and Jeff Huang for their help, and everyone who took part! Here are a few more photos from the event…

Fundraising, December 4

2018-12-04

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Fundraising, December 3

2018-12-03

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Fundraising, December 2

2018-12-02

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Fundraising, December 1st

2018-12-01

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LibreOffice monthly recap: November 2018

2018-11-292018-11-29

Here’s our regular recap of events and updates in the last month!

At the start of November, we began a new Month of LibreOffice, crediting contributions all across the community! Everyone who took part in the LibreOffice project during November can claim a cool sticker pack – see here for the details. If you didn’t get a sticker, don’t worry – we plan to have another Month of LibreOffice is May next year!

There were two update releases of LibreOffice: 6.0.7 and 6.1.3. The former is recommended for organisations, together with professional support from our ecosystem of certified developers, while the later is suitable for home users. Full details here.

As we head towards LibreOffice 6.2, which is due to be released in late January (or early February), our worldwide community is organising events to test the software. Check out the LibreOffice 6.2 Bug Hunting Session in Ankara, Turkey, where participants tested the alpha version on Linux, Windows and macOS.

At other events, LinuxDays and OpenAlt in the Czech Republic, Stanislav Horáček and Zdeněk Crhonek (aka raal) helped to spread the word about LibreOffice and The Document Foundation. They answered questions from visitors, handed out merchandise, and had discussions with other Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects. Here’s their report.

Meanwhile, local governments around the world are discovering the benefits of free software and open standards. The Municipality of Tirana, Albania is migrating to LibreOffice, as part of a large deployment of open source technologies in the city’s IT infrastructure, and follows the successful migration to Nextcloud. (Our recent LibreOffice Conference 2018 was held in Tirana – here’s a quick video recap.)

One attendee of the LibreOffice Conference 2018 was Cathy Crumbley, who flew over from the USA to meet the community and participate in documentation project discussions. She wrote up her experiences on our blog – we’re really glad that she had a great time!

Finally, the Bengali LibreOffice community organised a localisation sprint, demonstrating how to use Pootle to translate the software’s user interface. Biraj Karkamar described it as “good and productive – and it was fun too!”

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