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Kevin F. Quinn wrote: |
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>On 5/9/2005 1:29:57, Ciaran McCreesh (ciaranm@g.o) wrote: |
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>>On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 1:12:54 +0200 "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o> |
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>>wrote: |
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>>| 3) All packages need to be assigned an x86 arch team member |
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>>| responsible. |
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>>Why? |
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>Because if only the x86 arch team can mark stuff stable, anything |
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>without representation on the x86 arch team will stay unstable forever. |
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>Maybe rather than one specific arch team member, several would |
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>undertake to manage otherwise unassigned packages. |
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Well, but, assigning each ebuild an x86 arch member is not the same than |
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to have the package mantainer taking care of that? , i think the idea |
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with the arch team |
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is to centralize QA. |
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>>| 6) I notice the amd64 team requre their arch testers to |
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>>| take the ebuild quiz; I think this is a bit harsh, as |
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>>| arch testers are regular users without commit access to |
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>>| CVS etc. A simpler quiz targetted at ensuring the arch |
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>>| testers know what is expected of them would lower the |
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>>| bar and should encourage more users to join in. Using |
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>>| the ebuild quiz means you get people who quickly become |
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>>| devs in their own right... |
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>>The ebuild quiz isn't particularly difficult... If the proposed "write |
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>>an ebuild for equizapp" question goes through then maybe they could be |
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>>exempt from that until they need cvs access, but the main ebuild quiz |
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>>just tests basic understanding. |
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>I guess it comes down to what you want a tester to do. In my mind, the |
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>task of a tester is to emerge the package normally, record the use flag |
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>configuration, and exercise the application as much as possible. Possibly |
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>repeating with other use flag configurations. If you want testers to do |
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>ebuild QA, then the ebuild quiz becomes relevant, but I don't think it's |
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>a good idea.. |
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We could write a basic 'arch team' quiz?. It might be a slightly |
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modified version |
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of the ebuild quiz.If the arch team menber wanna be a Gentoo dev with |
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commit access he could |
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just take the ebuild quiz later. |
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And if for example someone takes the ebuild quiz , he could be both a |
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dev and a arch team |
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member of course, in other words, the arch team quiz would be a sub-set of |
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the ebuild quiz targeted for arch teams. |
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