On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:39:44PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > -------8<--------- > > QA UPLOAD BEST PRACTICES > > When making an upload on a package maintained by the QA team, it is > important to keep some basic points in mind to ensure that these packages > are kept in good order while they wait for a new maintainer. Consistency is > a valuable commodity. > > * If you're going to be working on a QA upload for a while, notify > debian-qa@lists.debian.org, and probably the bug reports you're hacking on, > of your intentions. This minimises duplicated work, and helps people know > what's going on.
setiing the owner of the bug might also good. During BSPs I usually rely on claiming the bug instead though because that's more obvious for the other participants then. > * It is useful to note that the upload you are making is a QA one in the > changelog, for future reference. Something like "* QA Upload" as the first > item in the changelog is sufficient. > > * Packages "maintained" by the QA team don't have a real maintainer, > therefore nobody can do a real "maintainer upload". Hence there is no point > differentiating NMUs, so don't use NMU version numbering for your uploads. > [To be practical, every DD is a potential QA team member, and is therefore > the co-maintainer for orphaned packages. And a very long string of NMU > version numbers is ugly, especially when new upstream versions are packaged > by QA.] > > * In most aspects of preparing a QA upload, follow NMU policy. Things like > ensuring your changes are as minimal as possible, and thoroughly testing > your changes, is very important. Since you're not the regular maintainer, > you probably won't understand what's being done as thoroughly as you would > for your own packages, so ensure you're not subtly breaking something with > your changes. > > * After you make your upload, subscribe to the package's PTS entry to watch > for any bug reports which might come in as a result of your new upload. As pointed out before, subscribe to the mailing list instead. > ----->8------ Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/
