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Re: IMPORTANT: Debian QA Group Organisation Draft.

On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Riku Voipio wrote:

> Ok, I agree that this is a well done draft. However, There is one hole in
> the proposal:
> 
> I doesn't talk about broken packages - fx: important binary missing,
> making the package unusable, or an dependency problem that makes it
> impossible to install. 

If a package is broken, then it's a critical bug.

> >The above delays are reduced by a factor of 2 in the month preceding a
> >freeze 
> 
> I don't get the reason behind this. development should continue as normal,
> we don't have any pre-freeze state... 

I added this to encourage developers to fix their packages *before* the 
freeze rather than *during* the freeze. I can remove this part if too 
many people objects.

> I feel a little mixed by the tight dates - there really are cases when a
> developer is not around for a month or so... I wish it would somehow be
> possible to note the qa-team that "don't orphan my packages, I just won a
> trip around the world and I won't be around for a month.."

I do *not* like tight dates either. But if I replace tight dates by "as 
soon as possible" or "quick please", then we'll fall back into the 
current development state: some bugs will never get fixed.
I really think tight delays are the ways to go, however:

- If you think they're are to short we could expand them.
- Of course if someone *warns* he will be away for a while his packages 
will not be orphaned. The QA Group may eventually make a bugfix upload to 
fix something, but the maintainer keeps his packages.


> ps. please limit your message lines to 80... :) 

I know. (Was typed at work on a Mac LC and I forgot to reformat, sorry ;)

	Cordialement,

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