Re: RFC: Debian Quality Assurance Group
On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 02:46:16PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> I don't see whay intent to NMU is neccessary to be sent to -qa, but okay.
> A message to the BTS counts as a personal e-mail to the maintainer.
I think it is nice for every member of QA what the others are doing. Apart
from that somebody else on qa might know that the maintainer is currently
absent stopping the NMU.
> I think you mean that I should empahsize that if the maintainer okays
> the NMU request, that the QA Group member may do it at any time (not
> having to wait for the X days to pass), right?
This is how I understand it. And it is better this way I think. Another issue
with this "timeouts": I think we need some kind of reminder to really do the
upload after that time. Otherwise we will just end up with a lot of unapplied
patches in the BTS while the quality of the package does not increase.
> I still think that the maintainer should have more time to say anything.
> Well, the number could be 20 days...
What about some kind of staging area for qa? If a qa member makes a fix and is
still waiting for the maintainer to answer the mail I think we should publish
the result somewhere so people who are hit by the bug can try the new
inofficial package. If the maintainer uploads a new version this package
should be removed from qa.
> I think if the answer is "no", and no upload is made withing 30 days,
> then just bring the issue to debian-qa list, and let others decide if
> the maintainer's reasoning is good enough to warrant not uploading.
> I'll include that in the text, thanks for mentioning the possibility.
Yep - I think we do not want to step on anybody's foot :)
> IMHO doing exactly the opposite of what the maintainer says is simply
> calling for trouble, and we must aim to avoid unneeded confrontation.
Seconded. On the other side we do not want our work to be lost. I think it is
no excuse if the maintainer says he will soon have the time to make a new
upload. I myself often think I will soon come to it but it slides farther away
each day...
cu
Torsten
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