On 24-Jan-99, 18:24 (CST), "M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
> > (What is the difference between debian-qa and debian-testing?)
>
> Testing is finding bugs. QA is fixing them. I'd be interested in this too.
While that is rather amusing description,
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> > I think I'd be interested in being part of a QA team for potato.
> >
> > (What is the difference between debian-qa and debian-testing?)
>
> Testing is finding bugs. QA is fixing them. I'd be interested in this too.
If you're interested, please subscr
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 08:59:19PM +0100, Vincent Renardias wrote:
>
> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>
> > Le Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:29:38PM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe écrivait:
> > > If there were a group that, during freeze, were given the task of
> > > handling difficult lo
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Vincent Renardias wrote:
> >
> > I attempted to start a similar thing ~2 yrs ago (the 'Debian QA Group') but
> > it mostly failed due to the little time I could spend on it back then and
> > lack of interest of most of the other develo
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
> I think I'd be interested in being part of a QA team for potato.
>
> (What is the difference between debian-qa and debian-testing?)
Testing mostly consists in finding exiting new bugs, while QA consists in
fixing old boring bugs... ;)
Cordialeme
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Vincent Renardias wrote:
>
> I attempted to start a similar thing ~2 yrs ago (the 'Debian QA Group') but
> it mostly failed due to the little time I could spend on it back then and
> lack of interest of most of the other developpers. Maybe it's time to try
> to restart it?
> (
> (But my feeling on this is that 99% of the developpers prefer to spend
> time on their own packages than having to deal with the bugs of other
> developpers' packages.)
And the rest 58% are done by us porters! :-)
Thanks,
Hartmut
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:29:38PM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe écrivait:
> > If there were a group that, during freeze, were given the task of
> > handling difficult looking bugs before they became stale, debian could
> > possibly begin getting
Le Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:29:38PM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe écrivait:
> If there were a group that, during freeze, were given the task of
> handling difficult looking bugs before they became stale, debian could
> possibly begin getting its releases out on time.
>
> I'm just curiou
Debian, being a volunteer organization, inherently suffers from late
releases periodically. This is usually because a small group of packages
have upstream bugs that the designated maintainers perhaps do not have time
to cope with.
If there were a group that, during freeze, were given the t
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