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Eldad Zack wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Sometimes it becomes a problem whenever a new release or a tricky bugfix comes |
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> up for a certain package. |
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> To improve QA we can let our userbase help, especially people who use certain |
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> packages quite heavily - they can provide good or even superior QA than devs. |
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> I think it would be a nice idea to keep a userlist for anyone who'd like to |
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> volunteer testing packages they regularly use. |
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> We can consider a web interface for enrolling users to specific packages, and |
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> maybe even get a bug.g.o account for the list, this way a bug can be opened |
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> for the testers to comment on whenever a change that requires testing or |
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> maybe just aiding arch teams to stablize packages. |
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> Maybe this was already pitched but it has just occured to me. |
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> Comments? |
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Isn't this why we already have the arch tester position as described by |
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GLEP 41 (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0041.html)? |
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Furthermore, are you saying that users would enroll themselves via this |
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hypothetical web interface, or that an arch team would do so for users |
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who have proven themselves to be worthy? If the former, this would be a |
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serious step back in terms of QA (think about sorting out all the crap |
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reports from ricer overlay users with OMGFAST CFLAGS from the decent |
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ones). If the latter, I think the arch tester position already covers |
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this sort of thing. |
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-Steve |
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