Coming up: Second Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.3, on July 08

LibreOffice 6.3 is being developed by our worldwide community, and is due to be released in early August 2019 – see the release notes describing the new features here. In order to find, report and triage bugs, the LibreOffice QA team is organizing the second Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.3 on Monday July 08, 2019. Tests will be performed on the first Release Candidate version, which will be available on the pre-releases server a few days before the event. Builds will be available for Linux (DEB and RPM) with GTK3 and KDE5 support, macOS and Windows. ( Note that it will replace your actual installation) Mentors will be available from 07:00 UTC to 19:00 UTC for questions or help in the IRC channel #libreoffice-qa and the Telegram QA Channel. Of course, hunting bugs will be possible also on other days, as the builds of this particular Release Candidate (LibreOffice 6.3.0 RC 1) will be available until mid July. Check the Release Plan.

First Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.3

LibreOffice 6.3 is being developed by our worldwide community, and is due to be released in early August 2019 (see release notes describing the new features here). In order to find, report and triage bugs, the LibreOffice QA team is organizing the first Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.3 on Monday May 13, 2019. Tests will be performed on the first Alpha version, which will be available on the pre-releases server a few days before the event. Builds will be available for Linux (DEB and RPM), macOS and Windows, and can be installed and run in parallel along with the production version. Mentors will be available from 07:00 UTC to 19:00 UTC for questions or help in the IRC channel #libreoffice-qa and the Telegram QA Channel. Of course, hunting bugs will be possible also on other days, as the builds of this particular Alpha release (LibreOffice 6.3.0 Alpha 1) will be available until the end of May. Check the Release Plan. During the day there will be a dedicated session to test the ongoing work in the KDE5 integration from 14:00 and 16:00 UTC. All details of the first bug hunting session are available on the wiki.

Coming up on December 21: Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.2 RC 1

After the first and second Bug Hunting Sessions of LibreOffice 6.2, which were held on October 22th 2018 and November 19th 2018 respectively, we’re glad to announce the third and final Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.2 on December 21st. You can see the release notes describing the new features here. In order to find, report and triage bugs, the tests during the Third Bug Hunting Session will be performed on the first Release Candidate (RC1) version of LibreOffice 6.2, which will be available on the pre-releases server on the day of the event. Builds will be available for Linux (DEB and RPM), macOS and Windows. Mentors will be available on December 21st 2018, from 7AM UTC to 19PM UTC for questions or help in the IRC channel: #libreoffice-qa and its Telegram bridge. Of course, hunting bugs will be possible also on other days, as the builds of this particular Release Candidate (LibreOffice 6.2.0 RC1) will be available until mid January, 2019. See the release plan. During the day there will be two dedicated sessions, one about the new KDE5 Integration between 11AM UTC and 13PM UTC and the other about the tabbed NotebookBar from 15PM UTC to 17PM UTC

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

Coming up on November 19: Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.2 Beta 1

LibreOffice 6.2 is being developed by our worldwide community, and is due to be released in early February, 2019 – see the release notes describing the new features here. LibreOffice 6.2 will include a new (optional!) user interface design called the Notebookbar – see here for some screenshots. You can help us to test it, and make it super reliable! After the first Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.2, which was held on October 22nd, we’re glad to announce the Second Bug Hunting Session on November 19th. In order to find, report and triage bugs, the tests during the Second Bug Hunting Session will be performed on the first Beta version of LibreOffice 6.2, which will be available on the pre-releases server on the day of the event. Builds will be available for Linux (DEB and RPM), macOS and Windows, and can be run in parallel with the production version – so you can test without affecting your existing stable installation. Mentors will be available on November 19th 2018, from 7 AM UTC to 9PM UTC for questions or help in the IRC channel: #libreoffice-qa and its Telegram bridge. Of course, hunting bugs will be possible also on other days,

Quick report: LibreOffice 6.2 Bug Hunting Session in Ankara, Turkey

Our community is working on LibreOffice 6.2, which is due to be released in early February 2019! While developers are adding new features, other community members are helping to test them, in the form of Bug Hunting Sessions. You can learn more about these on our Quality Assurance blog, and in the meantime, here’s a quick report from an in-person session in Ankara, Turkey… Here’s what Muhammet Kara, who helped to organise the event, had to say: Eight people (including one remotely from Istanbul) participated in our live session in Ankara, and we tested LibreOffice 6.2 Alpha on Linux, Windows and macOS. We always held our past live sessions in Pardus’ venue. This time we decided to make a change, and I think it brought good results. All people in the session, except me, were new faces, from different schools and workplaces. We started with self-introductions, and chatted for a short while, to get to know each other. Then I went through our bug reporting and QA process briefly, and introduced the participants to our Bugzilla installation. We identified several bugs, and created bug reports for them. Some of our new community members are following up the bug reports, and