Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The testers are starting to think about how to organized the 2.0 > testing effort. One idea that the testers seemed to like is to create a > checklist for checking each package. [details snipped]
Excellent! If this comes off, I think it will probably work very well; certainly, it seems to be the way to go. Apart from anything else, having such a checklist will hopefully encourage the developers to check their packages against it before they release them! OTOH, if you make this too simplistic, then I fear you're going to miss most of the problems: I'm sure the majority of developers do test their packages at least a little bit before releasing them. I certainly do. But one of the things Debian has been bad at in the past is getting a distribution which is consistent within itself, and that is something that these checklists won't address. That little niggle aside -- and I'm sure you will be doing other things than just this -- the testing made a big difference to Bo, and it sounds like it's going to be even better for Hamm. Keep it up! Andy -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poboxes.com/andy.mortimer PGP public key available on key servers -- I found myself alone, alone above a raging sea That stole the only girl I loved and drowned her deep inside of me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
