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

[John Mylchreest <johnm@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 07:09:29PM -0500, Mark Loeser <halcy0n@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > The problem with that is, it usually ends up with too many pointless
> > > comments from people saying how things could be fixed in the distant
> > > future, or whining that it isn't explicitly forbidden by policy on
> > > situations where the screwup was too weird to be documented previously.
> > 
> > This is very much a case-by-case thing. I still feel the debate should
> > be better answered outside of conflicting qa members.
> 
> Well, instead of putting the debate into an even larger crowd, this
> enables the QA team to act in the way it sees best first.  If people
> believe we were wrong, then we give them the option to talk to the
> council about one of our changes.  Also, we aren't unwilling to hear
> alternatives and we hope to work with the maintainer on these problems.

I've yet to read the rest of this subthread this morning, but while its
fresh in my mind I would also like to see less of a requirement from the
council. They are there purely for technical direction and not for a
teams beck and call. Regardless, I can see your point - although I would
still prefer to see a little more public discussion when the QA team are
unable to satisfactorily come to an answer between themselves and the
maintainer in question.

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