Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

[Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 19:34 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Mark Loeser wrote:
> > Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org> said:
> >> The maintainer should be the absolute authority over his/her packages,
> >> and only the council should be able to overrule maintainer decisions in
> >> the case of disagreement between the maintainer and anybody else.
> > 
> > I think it really depends on the situation, but in general I disagree
> > that something should be left in a state that the QA team finds
> > questionable/broken.  It should be a very rare occurence that this comes
> > up, since we don't really want to override what the maintainer says, but
> > I think the QA team should have this right in extreme circumstances.
> 
> So if QA thinks one way is right, and the package maintainer thinks
> another way is right, you say QA always trumps?
> 
> I'm looking at this as "innocent until proven guilty" versus "guilty
> until proven innocent." When parties are in disagreement, the _current_
> situation should stand until the council (or the two groups in question)
> resolves it. That assumes lack of extenuating circumstances such as
> security vulnerabilities or major tree breakage.

The devs asked for a council. A council was elected. The council decided
that QA trumps devs. If anybody has a problem with that they are free to
object at the next council meeting.
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Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Linux

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