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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
Cc: Dane Smith <c1pher@g.o>, gentoo-qa@l.g.o, mattst88@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-qa] Re: Joining QA Team?
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:00:40
Message-Id: 4E2D1482.5090107@gentoo.org
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4 On 25/07/2011 01:58 πμ, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
5 > Il giorno gio, 21/07/2011 alle 08.23 -0400, Dane Smith ha scritto:
6 >> Sorry for the delayed response on my part. I had been out of town
7 >> for the past little while(and swamped beyond that =P).
8 >>
9 >> I see no issue with you being on the team Matt. You need an ack
10 >> from Diego (I CC'd him to this).
11 >
12 > Okay, first of all sorry if I've been out of communication for about
13 > the past month: I'm having a personal bad moment — those of you who
14 > follow my blog can probably tell, since I haven't written more than
15 > one post in the past two weeks or so.
16 >
17 Oh, I hope everything is ok
18
19 > The reason why I didn't answer Matt at first was that I was looking
20 > forward for the new council's direction: I'd find it difficult to
21 > actually lead anything without the council's back, so I wanted to
22 > see what they wanted to do with QA.
23 I don't follow. I don't think the council has immediate plans to change
24 the way QA works. After all, the Council cannot interfere with
25 individual projects. There was a discussion about Council appointed lead
26 for QA and Devrel but the discussion stopped there.
27 >
28 > Right now, I'd still like to take a bit of time mostly to consider
29 > thoroughly what the team should look like, if a team has to be there
30 > at all, given that there are really two very different concepts of
31 > QA:
32 >
33 > - day-to-day quality improvement: identify common issues and get
34 > them processed; this usually involves being able to deal with any
35 > ebuild on the spot without interfering with normal development.
36 This also requires manpower.
37 >
38 > - exceptional quality issues: hell is breaking loose and needs to be
39 > fixed right at the moment.
40 Also requires manpower available 24/7
41
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43 - --
44 Regards,
45 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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