Re: [gentoo-dev] enroll users for testing packages

[Daniel Goller]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 09:36 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> Eldad Zack wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Sometimes it becomes a problem whenever a new release or a tricky bugfix comes
> > up for a certain package.
> > To improve QA we can let our userbase help, especially people who use certain
> > packages quite heavily - they can provide good or even superior QA than devs.
> >
> > I think it would be a nice idea to keep a userlist for anyone who'd like to
> > volunteer testing packages they regularly use.
> >
> > We can consider a web interface for enrolling users to specific packages, and
> > maybe even get a bug.g.o account for the list, this way a bug can be opened
> > for the testers to comment on whenever a change that requires testing or
> > maybe just aiding arch teams to stablize packages.
> >
> > Maybe this was already pitched but it has just occured to me.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> >
>
> Isn't this why we already have the arch tester position as described by
> GLEP 41 (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0041.html)?
> Furthermore, are you saying that users would enroll themselves via this
> hypothetical web interface, or that an arch team would do so for users
> who have proven themselves to be worthy?  If the former, this would be a
> serious step back in terms of QA (think about sorting out all the crap
> reports from ricer overlay users with OMGFAST CFLAGS from the decent
> ones).  If the latter, I think the arch tester position already covers
> this sort of thing.
>
> -Steve

didn't he ask for people who know a particular application very well?
i think there is a big difference between agreeing to test one
particular package since they know it very well and want to make sure
noone breaks it vs. being a full AT with all the things they get asked
to test