OOo Issues

Before Filing an Issue

1. Before you begin filing an issue, please do take a moment to check if there are existent issue already been reported.

You may use the Issue Tracker Query http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi

You may use the Advance Search http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/Search

Guideline to Filing an Issue (Important)

• One problem - One issue

Meaning, you are to ONLY file one problem at a time even if you found several problems in the same area.

For example: I found several problems with the 'save as' option

1/ File name increment option does not increment, but rather decrement.

2/ The save button sometimes grayed out for no reason

3/ Obscure characters are allow to be enter as a file name

This considered as 3 issues and should be file separately.

• Provide a meaningful summary

Be descriptive of your discovery to the problem and avoid using generalize statement(s) that may potentially mean a different thing.

Generalizing the description will result your issue being ignore and review at later time.

Remember, open office has a large library of source code to search through, providing a concise description will save the community members time.

Some ideas what you can put in your description...

Where did it happen?, What trigger the event?, What is the result?, etc

• Provide step-by-step descriptions

This reinforces the guideline of providing a meaningful summary, software today are becoming more robust as programmer tries to implement additional features that perform the same job simply for the sake of convince for the end user. If you encountered a problem with font changing, please provide a step by step guide for the community the steps you took to generate that result.

An example of a non-descriptive instruction: I try to apply bold text

An example of more descriptive instruction:

1/ Highlight the text in which you want to apply changes to.

2/ Open the edit menu.

3/ Select Font

4/ Check off the bold check box

5/ Press OK

6/ Crashes

• Provide sample documents, if possible
• Use Attachments where possible
• Put all relevant information into the issue

How to File an Issue

1. Create an account with OpenOffice.org at http://www.openoffice.org/

Once you logged in you will be in your My Start Page

Look at the left panel where it says My Tool and click on File Issue

Issue Priorities and Examples

Source

P1: Extremely severe problem, which must be fixed immediately.

• Reproducible crashes or freezes
• Security Issues
• Build problems
• Incorrect graphics with legal implications

P2: Severe problems which affect a significant number of customers.

• An essential product feature does not work or exist
• Data is corrupted in an easy way
• Huge memory leaks

P3: Non-trivial problems which probably affect a noticeable number of users.

• Spelling errors in obvious places
• The application crashes in very special circumstance
• The user interface for a common functionality is confusing

P4: Problems which are non-critical or rarely occurring.

• Bugs that are easy to workaround
• Spelling errors in rarely seen places

P5: problems which describe wrong behavior of the application, but rarely affect anybody noticeably.

• in a seldom-used dialog, a control with an offset of a few pixels

Issue Life Cycle

Flow Chart

1. Open state issues
   1. UNCONFIRMED : This issue has recently been added. No one has validated that this issue is true. Users who have the "Project Issue Tracking - Change" permission set may confirm this issue, changing its state to NEW. or, it may be directly resolved and marked RESOLVED.
   2. NEW : This issue has recently been added to the assignee's list of issues and must be processed. Issues in this state may be accepted, and become STARTED, passed on to someone else, and remain NEW, or resolved and marked RESOLVED.
   3. STARTED : This issue is not yet resolved, but is assigned to the proper person. From here issues can be given to another person and become NEW, or resolved and become RESOLVED.
   4. REOPENED : This issue was once resolved, but the resolution was deemed incorrect. From here issues are either marked STARTED or RESOLVED
2. Resolved state issues
   1. RESOLVED : A resolution has been taken, and it is awaiting verification by QA. From here issues are either re-opened and become REOPENED are marked verified OR are closed for good and marked CLOSED.
   2. VERIFIED : QA has looked at the issue and the resolution and agrees that the appropriate resolution has been taken. Issues remain in this state until the product they were reported against is actually released. at which point they become CLOSED.
   3. CLOSED : The issue is considered dead. the resolution is correct. A closed issue can be reactivated by marking it REOPENED.