Re: Helping Out.

i'm looking forward to this "new system" :-) On Tue, 07 Aug 2001, Jani Taskinen wrote: > On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Andy wrote: > > >should I still mark a bug "Duplicate" if there is > >another "Bogus" bug exactly like it, or should I > >mark that bug "Bogus" too? > > Like we do for fixed bugs: If there are duplicates > for a bug that gets fixed and closed, then all > the duplicates must be closed too. > The current system is so braindead, that this has > to be done manually. ie. Search in the duplicates > for the fixed bug's number and close those. > That's why the duplicate's 'master' is always put > to the comments. > > So yes, bogus is bogus ALWAYS. Not anything else. > > --Jani > > p.s. The new system will be much more intelligent. :) > > > >On Tue, 07 Aug 2001, Jani Taskinen wrote: > >> I don't think the only 'job' for QA is to test RCs. > >> There are plenty of 'Open' bug reports in the bug database > >> which should be checked to these statuses: > >> > >> 'Analyzed' - Real bug, reproduced(!). > >> 'Bogus' - Not a bug. Bullshit. > >> 'Closed' - Fixed already. > >> 'Duplicate' - There is already a 'Analyzed' of it. > >> > >> Also, we have an IRC channel on #php.bugs @EFnet which > >> we have been using to discuss about some reports and > >> sometimes even Zeev is there. ;) > >> > >> If everybody else in QA team is sleeping, I am not! :) > >> I'm trying to spend most of my time coding a new bug > >> system though. > >> > >> --Jani > >> > >> > >> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Cynic wrote: > >> > >> >Hi Andy, > >> > > >> >I guess the reason you haven't received any welcome message > >> >is that everybody expected Zak Greant would do that, and he's > >> >too busy. Sorry for that. > >> > > >> >The QA team seems to be sleeping now -- again, Zak is too > >> >busy doing other stuff. You'll learn that he is the "driving > >> >force" of PHP's QA. When there's no discussion about language > >> >issues, we usually just test Release Candidates when they're > >> >packaged, and report the test results here. So, until the > >> >4.0.7 RC 1, there's not much to do right now. > >> > > >> >And welcome :) > >> > > >> >BTW, what platforms can you "offer", i. e. run the regression > >> >tests on? > >> > > >> >At 15:25 8/7/2001, Andy Woolley wrote the following: > >> >-------------------------------------------------------------- > >> >>Hi All, > >> >> > >> >>I sent a message a few weeks ago stating that I can spare some time to help > >> >>out in either Linux, Win32 or MacOSX or perhaps all 3 if needed. > >> >> > >> >>I'm not too sure what to do next, I've heard nothing since I sent > >> >>the > >> >>original message. > >> >> > >> >>If you guys have all the help you need, then great I'll just sit and > >> >>wait, > >> >>otherwise let me know if there is anything I can do to help. > >> >> > >> >>Regards, > >> >> > >> >>Andy. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >>-- > >> >>PHP Quality Assurance Mailing List > >> >><http://www.php.net/> > >> >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-qa-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > >> >>For additional commands, e-mail: php-qa-help@lists.php.net > >> >>To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >> >------end of quote------ > >> > > >> > > >> >cynic@mail.cz > >> >------------- > >> >And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files > >> >were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files. > >> > - Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7 > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PHP Quality Assurance Mailing List > >> <http://www.php.net/> > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-qa-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > >> For additional commands, e-mail: php-qa-help@lists.php.net > >> To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >