Re: RFC: Debian Quality Assurance Group
In message <[🔎] 19990422220636.C16449@cibalia.gkvk.hr>, Josip Rodin writes:
> Hi everyone,
>
[..]
>
> In the normal development period (when only unstable and stable
> distributions exist), delays are as follows:
> * fix for a critical/grave bug: 2 days
> * fix for any kind of security or important bug: 7 days
> * fix for a bug of normal severity: 30 days
> * cosmetic fix or a wish implementation: 45 days
> Note: the second two types may only be uploaded to unstable.
>
> The above delays are reduced by a factor of 2 in the month preceding a
> freeze. During a freeze (when there is a stable, frozen, and unstable
> distribution), delays are as follows:
> * fix for a security bug: 1 day
> * any other bug fix: 7 days
Well, well, but how are those (ambitious) periods to be archieved? Do
you want to chain QA-group member to their worstations? Are they fired,
if they fail? Without some means to guarantee such periods, they are
just hot air and not very serious. IMHO there is no possibility to give
deadlines for fixing bugs; they might be arbitrarily complex. Another
possibility would be, to provide a work-around, not fix, for example, to
fall back to an old, proven package, if the current can't be fixed in
a given period.
Guenther
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