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From: "Tomáš Chvátal" <scarabeus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Documentation
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:24:02
Message-Id: 4B38953E.8090309@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] QA Documentation by Richard Freeman
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4 Dne 28.12.2009 03:43, Richard Freeman napsal(a):
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6 > Could this include documenting QA policies a bit better? Some are
7 > documented in scattered docs, some are in the ebuild quiz answers (which
8 > of course no two developers have the exact same answers to, and they
9 > aren't anywhere you can point to for reference), and many are learned
10 > when QA files a bug on a package one maintains.
11 >
12 > It would be really nice to just have a list somewhere that we could
13 > periodically look at and refresh our memories against. Plus, some
14 > policies aren't always obvious or can be misinterpreted.
15 >
16 > Don't get me wrong - the QA team is doing a great job and I love Diego's
17 > work on the tinderbox. I've had a bug or two filed by them, and I've
18 > found that they've only been helpful when somebody actually bothers to
19 > try to resolve them.
20 >
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22 Yeah that is the weak point. We need to write for each policy what it
23 does and why we enforce it (probably also common approach to fix). And
24 we should ENFORCE it, not just fill bugs about it, because mostly people
25 tend to ignore that things.
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27 Tom
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Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Documentation Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o>