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[Brian Murray <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 01:03:13PM -0500, C de-Avillez wrote:
> On 05/18/2011 12:12 PM, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > On Wed, 04 May 2011 16:06:38 -0500
> > C de-Avillez <hggdh2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >> I am sorry -- are you a _maintainer_ or a _triager_ for LibreOffice?
> >> Just curiosity, but if you are an upstream maintainer, you may be
> >> entitled to a different process for joining BugControl.
> > 
> > Maintainer. All LibreOffice uploads since February are by me. I will
> > still keep my application up as this is faster that the maintainer
> > membership process. 
> > 
> >> The explanations in the bugs are good to show your work as triager
> >> (and maintainer, it seems); but what we ask for here is what
> >> _importance_ you would set, and _why_. We do not ask for an
> >> explanation of your work as triager.
> > 
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/775608
> > Importance: High in LibreOffice (Ubuntu)
> > While the conditions to trigger the bug are not too common, Calc is a
> > core application and installed by default and the results are possibly
> > devastating because the error might go unnoticed for a long time at
> > cause severe data corruption as a result.
> > 
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/754562
> > Importance: Medium in lo-menubar (Ubuntu Natty)
> > lo-menubar is a non-core application and not installed by default. The
> > scenario to trigger the bug is common, and the impact is severe with
> > possible data-loss (by crashing LO with unsaved changes).
> > 
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/732412
> > Importance: Low in LibreOffice (Ubuntu)
> > There is a known workaroud and it is mostly an cosmetic issue. Also the
> > real bug is in bamf and the changes to LibreOffice are a workaround
> > themselves.
> > 
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/740815
> > Importance: Undecided in LibreOffice (Ubuntu)
> > Hard to tell how to judge that for a single package as the bug is not
> > really affecting or effecting end users at all. As such the importance
> > is only important judged by the additional maintainer work resulting
> > from not fixing it. I would leave the importance deliberately
> > "undecided" and leave the judgment to the Firefox maintainer.
> > 
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/746375
> > Importance: Medium-Low
> > This is a bit of a cornercase. This is a crash, which should be
> > considered at least "moderate impact", and LibreOffice is a core
> > application making the importance "Medium". However, this is a rare
> > issue, triggered by a race condition and the crash happens on exit
> > without dataloss, thus this could be also considered a cosmetic issue
> > => importance "Low". The reason I still cared about this bug is because
> > a crash on exit can make automatic testing hard and thus create lots of
> > needless work on packaging.
> > 
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/314147
> > Importance: Wishlist at LibreOffice (upstream)
> > Requires new feature development upstream.
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > Bjoern
> > 
> 
> Thank you, Bjoern. I agree with the reasoning; based on the work you
> have done, I am more than happy to give you a
> 
> +1.
> 
> Now, we just need to wait a bit to give the others time to input.

This all looks great to me too.  Welcome to the team!

--
Brian Murray

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