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Re: QA group best practice?



On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 06:37:20PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Funnily I'm the one who added that "rule" for the NMU in the
> developers-reference ... because I think it's useful for NMU :
> - the developer NMUed has no time otherwise he wouldn't be NMUed
> - the maintainer will get angry if has more problems after the NMU
> 
> So it's better to be careful and follow what's happening after an NMU.
> However for QA, it's not so important since the QA maintainers are
> supposed to be never MIA since we're a group. So if a problem happen after
> an upload, there will be someone else to notice it and to fix it or at
> least to inform the uploader of his mistake.

Fairy 'nuff.

> > You can use 'at' to auto-unsubscribe
> > after a while.
> 
> I know the trick, I explained it recently:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2003/debian-qa-200307/msg00078.html
> 
> :-)

I have a terrible problem of not reading who is writing stuff on-lists, and
just absorbing the content.  I knew I should have checked who made that
suggestion... <g>

> > Mmmmkay.  The devel-ref will never look the same again...
> 
> Your patch has not yet been accepted. :-)

The big one hasn't even been written yet.  I honestly don't expect any of
the dev-ref authors (yourself included) to necessarily have the time to
integrate my patch in, what, 48 hours?  I'm happy to give it a bit of time.

- Matt



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