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 1FDUMG-0005Gq-F1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:27:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1QMPoGV017326; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:25:50 GMT Received: from aerie.halcy0n.com ([65.98.89.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1QMMJV1021312 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:22:22 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aerie.halcy0n.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39E5B7E887 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:22:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from aerie.halcy0n.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (halcy0n.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 19011-09-2 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:22:17 -0500 (EST) Received: by aerie.halcy0n.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B162F7E9FB; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:22:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:22:17 -0500 From: Mark Loeser To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role Message-ID: <20060226222217.GB17257@aerie.halcy0n.com> 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; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wq9mPyueHGvFACwf" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at halcy0n.com X-Archives-Salt: 32983e97-8808-4368-a47b-a6ebb7344efc X-Archives-Hash: 13e194d8ccf379a3a9ba4282405a033c --wq9mPyueHGvFACwf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The following is a small blurb which we would like the council to decide on at their next meeting. This came about after discussions with QA team members, the Devrel QA liaison, and a few council members. If anyone has any suggestions for how it could be improved, I'd appreciate it. 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. We are not out to get anyone, and hope that we never have to do anything except ask you to fix the problem we have found. And here is the document: * The QA team's purpose is to provide cross-herd assistance in keeping the tree in a good state. This is done primarily by finding and pointing out issues to maintainers and, where necessary, taking direct action. * The QA team may also offer to fix obvious typos and similar minor issues, and silence from the package maintainers can be taken as agreemen= t in such situations. * In case of emergency, or if package maintainers refuse to cooperate, the QA team may take action themselves to fix the problem. * In the event that a developer still insists that a package does not break QA standards, an appeal can be made at the next council meeting. The package should be dealt with per QA's request until such a time that a decision is made by the council. * In the case of disagreement on policy among QA members, the majority of established QA members must agree with the action. * Just because a particular QA violation has yet to cause an issue does not change the fact that it is still a QA violation. * If a particular developer persistently causes breakage, the QA team may request that devrel re-evaluates that developer's commit rights. Evidence of past breakages will be presented with this request to devrel. * 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. --=20 Mark Loeser - Gentoo Developer (cpp gcc-porting qa toolchain x86) email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org mark AT halcy0n DOT com web - http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ http://www.halcy0n.com --wq9mPyueHGvFACwf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEAioZCRZPokWLroQRAkGbAJ99DbkVbp1OwiHtV8/kJz/0vYY9UQCglg6o 5n0odLMhxbXq9v1pEZ4MYhc= =+cuc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wq9mPyueHGvFACwf-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list