a few more changes to the `about QA' document
Hi people,
See the attachment for diff... a few really minor rearrangements.
--
enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
--- qa.sgml.prev Wed Feb 23 21:20:18 2000
+++ qa.sgml Wed Feb 23 22:15:26 2000
@@ -38,16 +38,17 @@
GNU General Public License for more details.
<p>A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as
-/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
+/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on any Debian system, or at
+http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html on the Internet.
</copyright>
</titlepag>
<toc detail="sect">
-<chapt id="why">Why do we need Quality Assurance ?
+<chapt id="overview">Overview of Debian Quality Assurance
-<sect id="facts">Some facts
+<sect id="facts">Facts proving we need it
<p><list>
<item>The number of bugs is growing as is the number of packages.
@@ -79,13 +80,7 @@
<p>One of the main points here is scalability, meaning many people must be
able to work together on quality assurance without interfering too much.
-<chapt id="overview">Overview
-
-<p>The work is coordinated on <email/debian-qa@lists.debian.org/, and the
-QA Committee can be reached at <email/debian-qa-private@lists.debian.org/.
-That's an official committee which is in charge of leading the volunteers
-that want to help with QA issues. There's also a QA core team (composed of
-regular QA workers) that can do NMU when the committee request it.
+<sect id="tasks">Common tasks
<p>Here are some common tasks for people to do:
<list>
@@ -116,6 +111,12 @@
<chapt id="organize">QA Group organization
+<p>The work is coordinated on <email/debian-qa@lists.debian.org/, and the
+QA Committee can be reached at <email/debian-qa-private@lists.debian.org/.
+That's an official committee which is in charge of leading the volunteers
+that want to help with QA issues. There's also a QA core team (composed of
+regular QA workers) that can do NMU when the committee request it.
+
<sect id="ctte">The QA committee
<p>The Quality Assurance committee is a group of experienced Debian
@@ -127,9 +128,9 @@
some help because they have buggy (or difficult) packages. They offer their
assistance of the QA members.
-<p>The QA committee is also in charge of or tightly connected to the WNPP
-(Work Needed and Prospective Packages) list maintenance, regarding the
-orphaned and similar packages.
+<p>The QA committee is also tightly connected to the WNPP (Work Needed and
+Prospective Packages) list maintenance, regarding the orphaned and similar
+packages.
<footnote>
WNPP page maintainer e-mail is wnpp@debian.org, and the web page location is:
http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html, or
@@ -200,8 +201,8 @@
<p>As noted before, any other interested maintainer who is willing to do an
upload of an orphaned package is welcome to ask on the QA Group list for
-permission to do so, on behalf of his or the Group's. The permission is
-considered granted if there are no objections in one week.
+permission to do so. The permission is considered granted if there are no
+objections in one week's time.
<sect id="maintained">Bugfixes in maintained packages
@@ -242,9 +243,10 @@
naming the exact bug reports that will be marked as fixed after the upload.
<p>However, if QA committee takes part in two consecutive bugfix uploads
-within two months, with still no action from the actual package maintainer,
-then the package will be marked orphaned, and the 'Maintainer' field of the
-package will be set to "Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>".
+within two months, with still no action at all from the actual package
+maintainer, then we will consider the maintainer is missing; thus the package
+will be marked orphaned, and the `Maintainer' field of the package will be
+set to "Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>".
<p>This will be announced on the developers mailing list,
<email/debian-devel@lists.debian.org/, and sent to the WNPP list maintainer.
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