Resolving issues and bringing improvements to LibreOffice is usually the result of team work – a team often made up of people who have never met each other! As a Free / Open Source project, LibreOffice has contributors in the space of translation, documentation, development, design… and Quality Assurance (QA) from around the globe. Some might have contributed for decades, others just reported a bug for the first time yesterday. Let’s have a look at three stories in which issues were identified, triaged and resolved in different ways, but always through a combined effort. Many hands make light work Take for example bug 153790 on Bugzilla. At least six contributors were involved in its resolution: Ruud reported an issue in sheet referencing in Calc formulas; Stéphane confirmed the issue, provided more precise steps and let others know that the issue is a regression; ady pinpointed more precisely in which version the issue started; raal bibisected the issue to a precise commit by Eike – the issue started in version 7.4; Eike provided a fix for version 7.5; Finally, Xisco created a unit test so the issue does not reappear in the future. Looking into an issue reveals another Here’s another
