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On 30/10/2013 00:22, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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> In two weeks from now, the council will again have its regular monthly |
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> meeting. Now is the time to raise and prepare items that the council should |
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> put on the agenda to discuss or vote on. |
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> Please respond to this message with agenda items. Do not hesitate to repeat |
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> your agenda item here with a pointer if you previously suggested one (since |
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> the last meeting). |
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> The agenda for the next meeting will be sent out on Tuesday 2013-11-05. |
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> Please respond to the gentoo-project list, if possible. |
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> Best, |
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> Andreas |
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Hi, |
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I propose that the Council disband the current QA team, and call for |
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interested developers to form a new one in its place. |
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In its current state, the QA project (excluding subprojects) is |
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moribund, and all attempts to address the problem with the team directly |
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have failed. |
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The team is predominately inactive - of the eight listed members, only |
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half have any bugzilla activity at all within the last six months. Of |
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those four members, after a cursory examination of bugzilla, I was only |
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able to locate one that has made more than one action clearly as part of |
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the QA team within the last six months. |
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There is no way for new members to join the team. Requests for |
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membership posted to the mailing list are ignored[1], and direct mails |
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apparently go unanswered. |
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The mailing list is dead - the only post in the last two years is a ping |
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about trying to join the team. Only half of the team are in their IRC |
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channel, and most of the few queries raised there are ignored. |
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The email alias is private, so it's not clear who will be receiving any |
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queries via email or bugmail. |
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In its current state, not only is QA achieving few of its project goals, |
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but it's actually harmful in that sought advice and mediation never |
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actually comes. |
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Best regards, |
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Michael |
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[1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.qa/102 |