Re: Debian QA system lecture at Haifux - help needed
* Shachar Shemesh <debian@shemesh.biz> [2005-05-10 09:57]:
> give a lecture called "The Debian QA system". The lecture's abstract
...
>
> Subjects I'm going to cover are:
> 1. The basics of creating a deb
> 2. Standard package naming and file locations
> 3. The Debian human hierchy (from the sponsored maintainers to
> ftpmasters, possibly even up to DPL, if I'll think it's relevant).
> 4. The automatic QA tools (pbuilder, lintian, linda)
> 5. The tools that help keep it all together - dch, uscan, dupload,
> dpkg-buildpackage
These are all interesting topics and certainly related to quality, but
you may also cover some of the things done specifically by the QA
team. This includes stuff like
- maintain orphaned packages
- take care of WNPP (make sure orphaned packages are adopted, or
remove packages)
- track inactive maintainers (MIA, see my USENIX paper at
http://www.cyrius.com/publications/).
- handle bugs which are filed against unknown packages
- debcheck (http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php)
There are also some other things missing from your list, e.g.
- the RC bug graph http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
- in general, the BTS
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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