QA has seen some activity recently and some new maintainers are
interested in helping out, so I thought it would make sense to give a
summary what has recently been done. Perhaps we can get a discussion
going on where to go, and find some volunteers.
- Many bugs in the BTS had an unknown owner -- ie the bugs were
assigned to packages which no longer exist. I went through most
of them, reassigned or closed them.
- In order to avoid this in the future, I have some scripts and AJ
made some changed to the BTS. Bugs reported against unknown
packages (e.g. 'Package: deb-conf' instead of 'debconf') will be
sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], archived on qa.d.o and
sent to me. I reassign them.
- When packages are removed from Debian, mail is sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], and I reassign or close the open
bugs of that package (and talk to the maintainer).
- 2 Bug Parties have been organized by Jordi so far. Many helpers
are fixing many RC bugs. Also, maintainers who appear to be MIA
are found.
- I have coded some scripts which keeps records of MIA maintainers.
When I contact a maintainer, I send mail to a QA script which logs
the mail and a summary. So we have a nice record of what's going
on. This should allow several people to work together. The
scripts are on pandora in /org/qa.debian.org/mia
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ./mia-history
bsulcer:
2001-03-17: orphaning mgt, jordi has already put Maintainer: to QA Team
2001-03-17: jordi NMUs/QAs mgt -- initial release in 1996 and 2 NMUs
2001-03-18: contact brian, ask what's up, and suggest retiring
heiko:
2001-02-25: vorlon NMUs dbf2mysql
2001-03-17: cjwatson NMUs titrax
2001-03-18: mail heiko, asking abour orphaning / retiring
[...]
There's a mailing list (.forward file) for this. If you want to be
subscribed, let me know. I don't want this traffic to be piped to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], since it could contain information which should
not be archived in a puclic place.
Anyway, it works like this: say I think that maintainer 'badguy' is
MIA, then I contact him and CC the mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- weasel is also working on some nice scripts to find wrong
dependencies and stuff.
- As mentioned before, I want to set up a CVS rep for such scripts
and for the WML (web) data. Yes, the QA web site sucks.
Volunteers are welcome!
--
Martin Michlmayr
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
