From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FDVlF-00057r-G9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:57:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1QNtxCr022290; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:55:59 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.40]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1QNpifm029798 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:51:45 GMT Received: from localhost64.wan (cpe-66-25-88-87.satx.res.rr.com [66.25.88.87]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1QNpge2025080 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:51:42 -0600 (CST) From: Daniel Goller Organization: Gentoo Foundation To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:51:31 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <20060226222217.GB17257@aerie.halcy0n.com> <20060226225835.643c9c5d@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20060226225835.643c9c5d@snowdrop.home> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2015334.EpUK7uiinr"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200602261751.37948.morfic@gentoo.org> X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: 377ff3d9-5f27-4b13-bb3d-018a946d15cc X-Archives-Hash: b9ea1eedcff179bbc6a24cf6ec25f677 --nextPart2015334.EpUK7uiinr Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 26 February 2006 16:58, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:22:17 -0500 Mark Loeser > > wrote: > | Yes, Gentoo is supposed to be fun, but we also have a responsibility > | to our users to ensure we are providing them with the best possible > | distro we can. > > What, you mean the tree isn't someone's personal playground? I do not know what he did refer to, however the following quote from=20 ChrisWhite's blog does come to mind: [snip] "Well, I was told by ciaranm to "stop treating the tree like your toy" or=20 something to that effect. Now, I'm going to respond to this with "Yes, it i= s=20 my toy". Before you all go phsyco and what not, let's take a look at what=20 Gentoo really is." [/snip] =46ollowing this is a rather sad rationalization as to why it is a toy. http://www.securesystem.info/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=3D3&postId=3D111 > > | * The QA team may also offer to fix obvious typos and similar minor > | issues, and silence from the package maintainers can be taken as > | agreement in such situations. > > Should probably clarify that one. It's in there because there are some > situations where we find obvious typos (e.g. 'souce' instead of > 'source' in DEPEND) and file a bug to alert the maintainer. If the > maintainer fixes it within a few days, there's no problem, but if not > there's no point in letting the bug sit there -- someone from QA should > be able to fix it themselves. > > Equally, we don't want to just fix stuff without telling people that > they made a mistake, because then they're more likely to do it again. > > | * The QA team will maintain a list of current "QA Standards". The > | list is not meant by any means to be a comprehensive document, but > | rather a dynamic document that will be updated as new problems are > | discovered. > > Hrm, do we want to include the thing about the QA standards providing > rationale and explanations rather than hard rules here? --nextPart2015334.EpUK7uiinr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEAj8J/aM9DdBw91cRAnqBAKCuYHYtgZg8QsbFQPFyLwJMaoCwlACfWMeA oIh5cH0VlxklMtFXH9FI/i8= =rqY2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2015334.EpUK7uiinr-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list