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Re: Self-assessment of the quality of the maintenance work



On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:28:17 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> > That's going to be a lot of fairly mindless paperwork for someone who's
> > the member of a large, active team with a lot of packages.
> Agreed. I'm not sure what's the best way to handle this.
> Maybe the form should make it easy to give the same answers to all
> packages that are maintained by a given team ? 

An option for setting values for all packages would be nice (and
maybe not only for team-maintained packages).

> Another answer might be to hide all packages which are fine under the
> current norms (to be defined: no bugs (or less than X bugs), no lintian
> errors, ???) and use some predefined answers in those cases. The form would 
> focus on packages with problems (or that are getting worse over time).

I think hiding kind of defeats the purpose of the idea :)
But setting sane default values based on some metrics would make it
easier indeed.

Cheers,
gregor 
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