Hi Colin, On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 06:13:28PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Martin (Joey) Schulze and I were talking on IRC about how to make QA > work more public. Joey was looking for something he could report in DWN > about QA's progress and the progress of the release, partly because good > QA is something the project should be talking about, partly to help get > new people interested and generally improve and speed up QA, and partly > because seeing progress is a good way to improve morale (at least I know > it's good when I can see my bug count go down). Indeed. But OTOH this looks like a major time hog for me. Even discussing how to implement this can take a lot of time from our fellow developers. Not that I am against it, but I think we would need something to report on first. > acknowledgements of what they've done. Debian QA could especially > benefit from this since some parts of QA work feel a bit anonymous - you > don't have the direct feedback of your maintainer bug count dropping. Yes, right. > I think it would be useful to keep an informal log of what QA do on a > day-to-day basis. The implementation details aren't too important for > now, but they could be anything from a world-writeable file on pandora > through an editable weblog to something kept in CVS somewhere. Joey > could then use that in DWN or we could use it on the QA web pages. I would be all for a mail daemon. Perhaps we could have a flag in the changes files to flag uploads by QA or something to make that mostly automatic. We have to write the changelogs anyway... > The sort of things we might want to report on could be: > > * "fixed/downgraded n bugs in the base system" > * "triaged a ton of bug reports, worked out they don't affect woody" > * "moved all QA packages to packages@qa" > * "fixed 30 bugs in orphaned packages" > * "look at the RC bug graph dropping like a stone! [link]" Problem is somebody had to do this stuff before we can report it... > Adrian's task list might be a good place to start. Where was it again? cu Torsten
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