[gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for September

[Ryan Hill <dirtyepic.sk@gmail.com>]

Alec Warner wrote:
> needs as far as QA.  Last year Halcy0n petitioned for power for the QA
> team; it was quite like a ball crushing power (fix it or we will) and it
> seemed to have all kinds of frictional issues.  This being a global
> issue I would like to hear thoughts on how this could be done better; or
> we can abandon the idea of a QA team.

I don't recall that it was that heavy handed at all.  It said that the 
QA team would work with maintainers to improve the quality of the tree, 
and only in *emergency* situations would be empowered to take necessary 
measures to address the issue.  The major point of contention seemed to 
concern the situation where QA and maintainers strongly disagreed on 
whether or not a QA problem actually exists and were unable to come to a 
resolution between themselves.  In that case, the issue would be 
appealed to the council for judgement.  Now it also stated that the QA 
team had veto power over the maintainer until the council can come to a 
decision.  I personally don't agree with this at all, except in the case 
of security related issues.  Even so, I think this falls more under the 
umbrella of the security team rather than QA.

I do believe the QA team should have the ability to make trivial changes 
to ebuilds (such as obvious typos and other minor issues), but all 
effort should probably be made to first discuss these issues with the 
maintainers themselves.  Veto power *needs* to be the absolute last 
resource, and should very rarely, if ever, be necessary.


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