Re: Quality Assurance Group mini-policy
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 01:54:27AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > However, if QA Group members make 3 consecutive bugfix uploads within two
> > months, with still no action from the actual package maintainer, then the
> > package will be marked orphaned, and the 'Maintainer' field of the
> > package will be set to "Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>".
>
> I don't like this very much. For example I did a NMU of ssh to add
> PAM supports. I made some errors there and ended up doing two
> more NMU's to fix those. According to those rules the packages
> could have been marked orphaned since I did 3 uploads in as many
> days. I suggest removing the `3 consecutive bugfix uploads' from
> that paragraph.
The meaning was "three consecutive uploads that fix bug reports whose
fixes are already in the BTS and maintainer did not respond".
Note that "no action from [...] maintainer" doesn't only mean an upload,
just one e-mail of acknowledgement (or even notice on IRC) to the NMUer
or the -qa list is enough.
BTW personally, I think uploading a maintainer release just to
acknowledge a NMU is an utterly stupid waste of bandwidth. Of course,
that's just MHO.
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