Hi people, See the attachment for diff... a few really minor rearrangements.
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--- qa.sgml.prev Wed Feb 23 21:20:18 2000 +++ qa.sgml Wed Feb 23 22:15:26 2000 @@ -38,16 +38,17 @@ GNU General Public License for more details. <p>A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as -/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. +/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on any Debian system, or at +http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html on the Internet. </copyright> </titlepag> <toc detail="sect"> -<chapt id="why">Why do we need Quality Assurance ? +<chapt id="overview">Overview of Debian Quality Assurance -<sect id="facts">Some facts +<sect id="facts">Facts proving we need it <p><list> <item>The number of bugs is growing as is the number of packages. @@ -79,13 +80,7 @@ <p>One of the main points here is scalability, meaning many people must be able to work together on quality assurance without interfering too much. -<chapt id="overview">Overview - -<p>The work is coordinated on <email/debian-qa@lists.debian.org/, and the -QA Committee can be reached at <email/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/. -That's an official committee which is in charge of leading the volunteers -that want to help with QA issues. There's also a QA core team (composed of -regular QA workers) that can do NMU when the committee request it. +<sect id="tasks">Common tasks <p>Here are some common tasks for people to do: <list> @@ -116,6 +111,12 @@ <chapt id="organize">QA Group organization +<p>The work is coordinated on <email/debian-qa@lists.debian.org/, and the +QA Committee can be reached at <email/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/. +That's an official committee which is in charge of leading the volunteers +that want to help with QA issues. There's also a QA core team (composed of +regular QA workers) that can do NMU when the committee request it. + <sect id="ctte">The QA committee <p>The Quality Assurance committee is a group of experienced Debian @@ -127,9 +128,9 @@ some help because they have buggy (or difficult) packages. They offer their assistance of the QA members. -<p>The QA committee is also in charge of or tightly connected to the WNPP -(Work Needed and Prospective Packages) list maintenance, regarding the -orphaned and similar packages. +<p>The QA committee is also tightly connected to the WNPP (Work Needed and +Prospective Packages) list maintenance, regarding the orphaned and similar +packages. <footnote> WNPP page maintainer e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the web page location is: http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html, or @@ -200,8 +201,8 @@ <p>As noted before, any other interested maintainer who is willing to do an upload of an orphaned package is welcome to ask on the QA Group list for -permission to do so, on behalf of his or the Group's. The permission is -considered granted if there are no objections in one week. +permission to do so. The permission is considered granted if there are no +objections in one week's time. <sect id="maintained">Bugfixes in maintained packages @@ -242,9 +243,10 @@ naming the exact bug reports that will be marked as fixed after the upload. <p>However, if QA committee takes part in two consecutive bugfix uploads -within two months, with still no action from the actual package maintainer, -then the package will be marked orphaned, and the 'Maintainer' field of the -package will be set to "Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>". +within two months, with still no action at all from the actual package +maintainer, then we will consider the maintainer is missing; thus the package +will be marked orphaned, and the `Maintainer' field of the package will be +set to "Debian QA Group <debian-qa@lists.debian.org>". <p>This will be announced on the developers mailing list, <email/debian-devel@lists.debian.org/, and sent to the WNPP list maintainer.
