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From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:21:23
Message-Id: 20050913211856.GB6179@nightcrawler
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Council meeting, Thursday 15th, 1900 UTC by Mike Frysinger
1 On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:02:45PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 13 September 2005 04:43 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
3 > > Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 > > > this side note is unrelated to the point being made and really belongs in
5 > > > the previous discussions on the devrel list
6 > > >
7 > > > besides, is this a bad thing ? i'd prefer to have devs settle crap
8 > > > themselves than ever contacting devrel :P
9 > >
10 > > It's very relevant, because it supports the idea of QA taking care of
11 > > technical issues on its own. QA can work faster since it's less objected
12 > > do and doesn't need endless committees and documentation -- the
13 > > documentation is the broken code.
14 >
15 > QA team does not care at all about inner workings of devrel
16 >
17 > QA team identifies a misbehaving dev who refuses to change and then hands off
18 > the name/relevant data to devrel ... QA team then is pretty much done with
19 > the issue and the rest is up to devrel to resolve
20
21 Pretty much is what I'm after; just want to ensure no more scenarios
22 where stuff gets left broken for 18 months (actual example) due to QA
23 having no means to force people to fix their cruft.
24
25 This need a proposal, or can the council just do a "make it so" ?
26 ~harring