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On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:22:17 -0500 Mark Loeser <halcy0n@g.o> |
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| Yes, Gentoo is supposed to be fun, but we also have a responsibility |
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| to our users to ensure we are providing them with the best possible |
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| distro we can. |
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What, you mean the tree isn't someone's personal playground? |
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| * The QA team may also offer to fix obvious typos and similar minor |
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| issues, and silence from the package maintainers can be taken as |
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| agreement in such situations. |
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Should probably clarify that one. It's in there because there are some |
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situations where we find obvious typos (e.g. 'souce' instead of |
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'source' in DEPEND) and file a bug to alert the maintainer. If the |
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maintainer fixes it within a few days, there's no problem, but if not |
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there's no point in letting the bug sit there -- someone from QA should |
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be able to fix it themselves. |
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Equally, we don't want to just fix stuff without telling people that |
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they made a mistake, because then they're more likely to do it again. |
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| * The QA team will maintain a list of current "QA Standards". The |
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| list is not meant by any means to be a comprehensive document, but |
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| rather a dynamic document that will be updated as new problems are |
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| discovered. |
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Hrm, do we want to include the thing about the QA standards providing |
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rationale and explanations rather than hard rules here? |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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