Mark Kiptoo summarized his work on quality assurance and translations for LibreOffice. He conducted bug triage by reproducing issues, searching for duplicates, and prioritizing bugs. He also translated LibreOffice into Swahili using the Weblate localization system. His goal was to improve the software quality and expand adoption of LibreOffice in Africa. He thanked the LibreOffice community for their work making the software freely available to millions of users worldwide.

1. Quality Assuarance (QA) and
Translations Efforts
Open Source Conference 2020
Online Hokkaido
Mark Kipngetich Kiptoo
2020/06/27
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2. CONTENTS
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Introduction
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Background
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LibreOffice Activities
– Quality assuarannce
– Translation & localization
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Conclusion

3. Background
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Country: Kenya ( ケニア )
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Internship: iCraft Corp.
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Graduated from:
– University of the Ryukyus
– Meng. Electrical &
Electronics Engineering
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Previous position:
– Network Enginer, ISP. Kenya.

4. LibreOffice
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Free and Open Source Software
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Powerful office suites:Writer, Calc, Impress,
Draw, Base, and Math.
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OpenDocument Format (ODF)
The passion and drive of the community is the
engine behind LibreOffice development
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LibreOffice is community-driven.
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Used by millions around the world.
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Developed by users

5. Overview of LibreOffice
Activities
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Internship program: Involved activities
– Quality assuarance - Bug triage.
– Translation into Swahili language
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インターンシップの活動
– –品質保証 バグトリアージ
– スワヒリ語への翻訳
LibreOffice has a space for everyone:

6. Quality assuarance (QA)
Our role:
Bridge between users and developers & try to guide each bug report to its proper
resolution with the goal of improving the user experience
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Bug triage - confirmation/prioritization
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Manual Testing – regression checks
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Automatic Testing-automatic checks
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Localization QA- time, dates etc
QA identifies problems in our software, confirms problems reported by users and
validates proposed fixes and enhancements
QA involves the following:
Goal:
New versions of LibreOffice is more reliable, robust & saticifatorily to its users

7. Bug TriageBug Triage
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Involves investigating , confirming, & lastly prioritizing of the bugs.
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New contributor/no programming skils needed
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Download and install the latest stable LibreOffice
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Download and install a recent master build of LibreOffice
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Create an account in TDF Bugzilla – bug tracker
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Begin bug triaging:
– Preparation : 準備
– Reproducing : 再現の確認
– Prioritization : 優先順位付け
Steps to getting involveed &Triage a Bug

8. Steps to bug triage
Involved in the following activities during the internship
program:
Step 1: Bugzilla Search
LibreOffice の Bagzilla で検索
Step 2: Pick an interesting bug
気になるバグを選択
Step 3: Search for duplicates
重複バグを確認

9. Step 4: Check Information
Step 3: Search for duplicates
Step 5: Attempt to Reproduce
再現するか LibreOffice を動かして確認、
Bugzilla のコメントを書く
Step 6: Set Status based on test results
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NEW:
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NEEDINFO:
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RESOLVED:
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VERIFIED:
必要に応じてステータスを変更
Bug Triage

10. Web-based continuous localization system
TDF でセルフホストした Weblate で翻訳する
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Organized into projects and components.
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Components contains translations into individual languages
Translating LibreOffice

11. Localization: Swahili / Kiswahili
Official language
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Kenya
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Tanzania
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DR congo
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Rwanda
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Uganda
Minority language
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Mozambique, Burundi, Malawi,
Zambia
African Union,East Africa Community
Over 150 million users
@Kwamikagami

12. TDF Weblet - LibreOffice
How far are we in translation?
訳注： LibreOffice ではスワヒリ語 ( タンザニア ) のみ存在
スワヒリ語でも違いはあるらしいが、とりあえずここに挑戦した

13. Lets join LibreOffice &
make it even better
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Increase awareness of the LibreOffice and
advocate for its adoption
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LibreOffice の認知度を高め、その採用を推奨する
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Spear head the creation and support
Libreoffice community:
Collegues, classmates, school department
and friends and africa at large
Libreoffice コミュニティの作成とサポートを主導する
アフリカでの同僚、同級生、学部や友人たち
Conclusion & Next Challenge

14. Acknowledgements
Community.

15. Thank you for yourThank you for your
attentionattention

16. Image reference
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P.11, Kwamikagami,2014, CC BY-SA 3.0
– https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
File:Maeneo_penye_wasemaji_wa_Kiswahili.png