[ CC to the QA committee for information ] Le Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:04:37PM -0400, Michael Stone écrivait: > I'm interested in contributing to this effort--let me know what I can do > to help.
Different tasks have to be done : First task : finding bad maintainers ------------------------------------ The idea is simple. You must look for packages badly maintained. You can use different informations at your choice but these statistics are helpful in general : http://master.debian.org/~hertzog/qa/ So you contact maintainers and you ask them : - their plan for correcting the Release Critical Bugs - if they'd like to have some help (from the QA team) for correcting (one of) their packages - to orphan their packages if they can't afford to do what's needed Of course some maintainers won't give you an answer, you will have to try a second time (one or 2 week after the first mail) and after 3 or 4 weeks after the initial mail you will have to give the names of those people to the complete QA committe (you will be part of it) and we'll take a decision (doing a NMU and/or orphaning the package). Second task : checking new RC bugs ---------------------------------- When a release critical bug is getting older than 2 weeks you have to contact the maintainer about what he plans to do. Without answer in one week, the committe can take a decison to do a NMU in order to correct the bug. The goal is to keep the RCB number as low as possible in order to have a freeze as short as possible and so on. Both jobs have to be done on a regular basis, if you *really* will do one of them you're welcome in the QA committee. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ <pub> CD Debian : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd </pub>
