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From: Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:49:43
Message-Id: 4404A7BB.7060101@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role by Jakub Moc
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4 Jakub Moc schrieb:
5 | 28.2.2006, 18:38:10, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
6
7 | No, I won't claim that... I'd rather love to know why didn't you point out
8 | to an obvious eclass flaw about 30 emails and many hours ago, saving
9 us from
10 | all the eclass formating, slotting and ewarn blurb. The above needs to be
11 | fixed, period.
12 |
13 | To return to the original topic - focus your QA efforts on real
14 issues. Same
15 | goes for that non-interactivity stuff. QA that serves no other purpose
16 than
17 interactivie stuff in the tree (outside of pkg_config() function) _is_ a
18 QA problem.
19
20 | inventing problems to enforce an inevitably hackish solution (there's no
21 | good one because the needed tools are not available) is not useful at all.
22
23 | Portage is a tool to install and manage packages, and serves no good
24 purpose
25 | on its own. Crippling installed packages and their available features for
26 | the sole purpose of having nice ebuild tree with clean bash code is
27 not what
28 | QA is for. Improving the whole process is fine and welcome, as long as it
29 Wrong. This is exactly what QA is for. There are additional duties for
30 the QA team beside clean bash code.
31
32 Danny
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34 Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o>
35 Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project
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