Re: Need for a test suite

2001-02-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:06:14PM +0100, Christian Kurz écrivait: > On 01-02-01 Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > up the release process? The answer is at least partially evident: we > > need people actually doing QA. It looks like Raphael, whom, AFAIK, was > > playing QA coodinator, got caught

Re: Need for a test suite

2001-02-03 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Anthony, Hi Debian-QA! On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: > There are actually at least three sorts of tests we can do: > We can also > check packages don't depend on lower priority packages There are currently approx

Re: Need for a test suite

2001-02-03 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi m2-, On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:50:35PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > I was just watching a discussion on #debian-devel and the subject of QA > has come up yet again. Seems like that happens from time to time :) > The questions that pop up are basically the same as always, namely, h

Re: Need for a test suite

2001-02-02 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-02-01 Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > up the release process? The answer is at least partially evident: we > need people actually doing QA. It looks like Raphael, whom, AFAIK, was > playing QA coodinator, got caught up in RL, and other people are in a > similar situation. Can we have an i

Re: Need for a test suite

2001-02-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:56:28PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > The other question that popped up is "what's holding up packages in > > unstable and what can QA do to help that?" > Go through the update_excuses list, find a package that looks interesting ^^^ >

Re: Need for a test suite

2001-02-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:50:35PM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Once we have the people, the other part of the answer is not that > clear. IMO, a possible solution would be to have a sort of test suite. > Since the size of Debian together with the size of the QA team makes > the very id