Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Call For Agenda Items - 13 May 2014

[hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org>]

I'll give it to this list outright.

I have problems believing in QA competence when I read comments like these:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473#c14
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473#c17

You even blocked me out of the bug. I mean... wtf is happening here? I'm
not even sure the list can read those bug comments to understand what I
mean.

I used to believe it's lack of manpower/time or even laziness, but I am
not sure anymore.

Funnily... the meeting summary of march is lost where you were supposed
to vote on the tinderbox matter. I am not sure either if that is "by
accident" anymore. I pinged you guys often enough. No one seems to have
the logs anymore.

Anyway, I had less trouble getting responses from the old QA team. When
I ask you guys, I usually get one of these responses (or similar):
* nothing, unless I ping you after 2 weeks again
* "probably not in QAs scope"
* "post on dev ML first, we don't know what to think"
* "not sure if that's our business, appeal to council"

Not sure what's worth QA if they don't have strong opinions and try to
avoid to piss off people.

I used to ask QA for guidance beforehand on delicate matters before I
escalated elsewhere or chose a particular approach. That doesn't really
work anymore, instead people expect me to fire up the bikeshedding
dev-ML which is the worst place to get ideas and do constructive
brainstorming.


I expect infra to unblock bug 473 now. This is unacceptable.