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Re: IMPORTANT: Debian QA Group Organisation Draft.

On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Vincent Renardias wrote:

> 	Here's the draft I typed about the planned organisation of the Debian
> QA group. Please submit me your input/comments/flames/etc about it. If
> everyone agrees on this, I'll create the appropriate mailing-list and call
> for testers/patchers on debian-{devel,user}. 

Thankyou; you've just restored my faith in the direction of the Debian
project. Admittedly, I don't know a lot about this sort of area, so I
won't say much, but to me this proposal seems (a) workable, (b) not too
radical, (c) to fit in with the current `ethos' of the project, and (d)
not to take the fun out of being a developer!

I do have one comment, though; what you've described here seems to me to
be slightly more than just QA, especially the bits about taking over
orphaned packages. This could perhaps be split off and made a different
effort---after all, the people who are interested in QA are not
necessarily those who are interested in updating other peoples'
packages---or the name of the team could be changed slightly. The same
goes for testing of releases; there's no reason that I can see why a
tester should be part of the QA mailing list.

I guess, in summary, that looks like quite a large job for one team.

One other thing has just occurred to me: could a member of the QA team
perhaps be mandated to post summaries of recent bug reports to
debian-devel every week or so? This would be quite useful for people like
me, who don't have time to read all the bug reports carefully, but still
would quite like to know what's likely to go wrong!

All in all, though: well done. I like it.

&E

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