Re: QA and the freeze...

2001-05-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 06:27:27PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > So, volunteers? A particularly good place for someone to start would be writing a script to help find packages that depend on old libraries, running it, and passing the output on to the autobuilders. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[

Re: QA and the freeze...

2001-05-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:11:49PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > For the freeze to work well, there are two separate QA tasks that need > to be done: (1) fixing RC bugs before the packages they apply to freeze, > and (2) improving packages' policy compliance and overall consistency. Hrm. I should

Re: QA and the freeze...

2001-05-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 11:27:12AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Some hints to make the RC bug fixing job a little easier: > > * There's no such thing as an unreproducible grave bug. Either it > > breaks for everyone, or it doesn't. If the program is usable for > > most people, it's

Re: QA and the freeze...

2001-05-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Anthony Towns wrote: > Hi guys, > > For the freeze to work well, there are two separate QA tasks that need > to be done: (1) fixing RC bugs before the packages they apply to freeze, > and (2) improving packages' policy compliance and overall consistency. > > I suspect it might