On 00-12-04 Ben Collins wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 05:48:54PM -0600, Clay Crouch wrote: > > With all the recent whining^Wdiscussion about 'low-quality NMs', > > maybe a there is a way to winnow them down some. > > > > You want them to contribute more than just a few packages? OK, here > > is a possible fix: Bring them in via QA. They maintain orphaned > > packages for QA, and fix bugs for QA, and do NMUs for QA. All > > supervised/mentored by the (increased?) QA staff. [...] > Makes perfect sense and kills two proverbial birds with one proverbial > stone :) We get work on QA, while tuning and hardening our developer > elite. New maintainers helping on QA even if we have no concept for QA and only a real small team doing QA? I don't appreciat this and talked with Martin Michlmayer, one of the AMs, about this and he generated a nice mail-text which will be useful for NMs. Maybe he could post it also here, because I think it's better then forcing NMs to help with QA. Ciao Christian -- Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Team Member 1024/26CC7853 31E6 A8CA 68FC 284F 7D16 63EC A9E6 67FF 26CC 7853
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