On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 03:02:48PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Seems to me that we came up with a solution for this problem a while > ago: the Debian QA team. Right now it has eight people, and an > overwhelming workload. I think a QA team is the right thing here; > presumably it can have the discussions about whether particular > packages are so stale they should be removed.
I agree, but I was trying to get more obvious mechanisms for them to use. > > But I suspect that eight people is nowhere near enough people. Maybe > I could join... Indeed, maybe the problem would go away if everyone who > has posted a suggestion in this thread joined the QA team and started work. I'd be more than willing to help, but I'm not a debian developer. (heh, anybody live in edmonton alberta?) > > Maybe we need a way to make being on the QA team a sexy job, just like > maintaining glibc or the kernel or X is. I HOPE that's a joke. Mentioning the X maintainer (*cough* no names *cough) in the same sentance as "sexy" is just wrong imnsho. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus
