Fundraising, December 5
Consider a donation to LibreOffice to help the project attend events such as FOSDEM and volunteers from all over Europe to participate to the HackFest, staff the booth, and grow LibreOffice certification
Report: LibreOffice Bug Hunting Session in Taiwan
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
Consider a donation to LibreOffice to help the project produce even more gadgets for volunteer contributors, free software advocates and proud users, to raise the awareness of LibreOffice and Open Document Format (ODF)
Month of LibreOffice, November 2018: The winners!
At the beginning of this month, we began a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating contributions all across the project. Well, November has come to a close now, so how many people got stickers throughout the month? Here we go:
This is the best Month of LibreOffice we’ve ever had, reflecting our lively and growing community. A big thanks to everyone who took part – click the number above to see the full details, showing usernames of the contributors who gave a hand in various parts of the project.
Now, if you see your name (or username) on that page, we want to send you a cool sticker pack! Email mike.saunders@documentfoundation.org with your name (or username) from the wiki page so that we can check, along with your postal address, and we’ll send you these:
(Note: we will only use your postal address to send the stickers. No data will be transferred to third parties, and your address will be deleted as soon as the stickers are posted.)
If you contributed to the LibreOffice project in November but your name (or username) isn’t on the list, let us know! Just end us an email stating what you did and with your address, and we’ll make sure you get your stickers too…
So, to wrap up, a big cheers to everyone who helped out! LibreOffice is going from strength to strength, thanks to you… (And if you didn’t get a sticker this time, we plan to do another Month of LibreOffice in May!)
Fundraising, December 3
Consider a donation to LibreOffice to help the project attend events such as FOSDEM and volunteers from all over Europe to participate to the HackFest, staff the booth, and grow LibreOffice certification
Fundraising, December 2
Consider a donation to support activities such as HackFests and other events organized by native language projects, to grow the community and educate about free open source software