Re: RFC: Debian Quality Assurance Group
On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 07:12:18PM +0200, tho@thomsen.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de wrote:
> > 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.
You are completely missing the point. It is not written anywhere that
QA Group members MUST do anything after the specified periods, but that
they MAY do something after the specified period of time. Today, they
actually can't do ANYTHING on their own, and we want to change that.
Any other objections to the text?
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