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Re: Debian testing organization: a proposal (long)

Syrus, you wrote:
>One question: what about setting up priorities for the testing process 
>based on the number of users using each package.  This brings back the 
>very good (IMHO) idea of having a voluntary package which logs the use of 
>programs on the system and reports back to the project via a weekly cron 
>job.  This leads me to another IMO important question: Given that we have 
>limited resources to test packages, shouldn't we have at least two levels 
>of testing, (1) for those packages that most people use, and (2) for 
>packages that few if any people use?
The information gotten via the report package, is unreliable... at best.

It would be better, to prioritize things in a manner of:

	a) Kernel, and kernel related stuff.
	b) Administration stuff.
	c) Base system, and other system dependant stuff.
	d) Configuration and setup...

These are the core elements of the system... after that:

	e) Network related stuff.
	f) Network configuration and setup...

Which, is the single most important thing after the operating system itself,
and then I suggest:

	g) Xwindows stuff.
	h) Xwindows configuration and setup...

After network operation, the graphical user interface is the object that will
be the judgemental part for people.  This is what a normal user will see as
the operating system... as this will be their operating environment.  The
above working, and the basic environment for a user well functional, I'd
suggest:

	i) Clients; such as Mailers, Websters, Ftpers, Telnetters.
	j) Text formatters, Drawing tools, Editors.
	k) Database engines, and clients.
	l) Documentation, and translations.

This is what a normal user will desire to do on a system... so the above
categories should be fairly important.  The parts (j) and (k) are two
fairly big parts... so, perhaps after a series of these have been tested to
work in an environment, they could be marked as tested and then _recomended_
as such?

	l) Programming and Development tools.

	m) Miscaleneous software, and utilities.
	.
	.
	.

Just my 25øre worth,

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