QA process was Re: RPM submission procedure

[Toshio]

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 04:54, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 19:56:40 -0600, Timothy John Giese wrote:
> > We're missing a keyword (or a marker in the summary field) that flags
> > package request tickets which have at least one publish vote. Right now,
> > your best bet is to sort by "last changed" and visit recently changed
> > tickets.
> 
> I don't think bugzilla keywords and such are going to help. For any given 
> package there are only so many people who a) are interested in it b) are 
> willing and capable of doing QA on it. The fact that you need two such 
> users outside of "trusted developers" to get the package *anywhere* 
> doesn't do much to encourage people to do QA because it feels like totally 
> wasted effort since the package isn't still moving. 
> 
As someone who has just started doing QA and hasn't gotten jaded yet
*grin*, I think a keyword would be helpful.  I see many packages that I
don't know anything about except the name in the queue but think I might
like to try.  If I knew that one person had already asserted that it was
publishable, I'd be more confident in spending a little time trying it
out.

One problem I have with the current keyword situation, though, is that
the package queue bugzilla does not show them.  I've clicked through
numerous packages only to find they have NEEDSWORK set.  I've set up a
query to screen this, but I think that one of the uses of a
"HALF-PUBLISH" type keyword is to let people new to QA get a feel for
what good packages should look like by adding their knowledge to someone
else's QA knowledge.  For that audience, I don't think we should assume
a familiarity with bugzilla, running queries, etc.

-Toshio
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Toshio <toshio at tiki-lounge.com>
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