Re: how to participate?

1999-03-29 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Schulze wrote: > People who work on QA are: > > . Vincent > . James > . Torsten Landschoff > . Christian Kurz > . myself > . Josip Rodin, future . Joey Hess -- see shy jo

Re: Reviving Debian QA

1999-03-29 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sunday 28 March 1999, at 21 h 48, the keyboard of Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ Mailing to Debian Development and Debian QA, please send replies > *only* to Debian QA ] As you wish but please CC: me, I'm not on debian-qa. > What is debian-qa and is it eatable? I agree wit

Upstream maintainers are sleeping (Was: Reviving Debian QA

1999-03-29 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Monday 29 March 1999, at 1 h 17, the keyboard of Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * check that patches that should be sent upstream are being sent > upstream -- I think this is very important and I think we have a > bit of a bad reputation on this count. Could you elaborat

Re: Reviving Debian QA

1999-03-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > What is debian-qa and is it eatable? > > I agree with Adam that the goals seem very broad. Reading your message, one > could think that Debian-QA is everything in Debian. Is QA really the > technical > direction of Debian or is it more a "sweeper" checking package

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:53:01PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Maintainers: > > How much work is expected from the maintainers? Can we refrain from formalising this too much? Personally, I quite like the way this works at the moment -- if there's a buggy package that you can fix,

Re: Reviving Debian QA

1999-03-29 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Monday 29 March 1999, at 11 h 32, the keyboard of Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh well, sure it is. But developers behave different. Some of them > follow each policy change and each suggestion at once, some others > are waiting until lintian tells them what to do, some are wa

Re: Reviving Debian QA

1999-03-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Monday 29 March 1999, at 11 h 32, the keyboard of Martin Schulze > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oh well, sure it is. But developers behave different. Some of them > > follow each policy change and each suggestion at once, some others > > are waiting until lin

Re: how to participate?

1999-03-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:55:58PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > How can one participate in this 'quality assurance'? I found some > > At the moment there is no written list of active members. However > membership as uploader is limited to registrated developers while > membership as reporter

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:13:43PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Re-upload the known orphaned packages with the 'Maintainer' field > > > set to: "Orphaned Package " > > > > I've seen only 'Debian QA Group' (and variations) in Maintainer: fields > > so far - isn't that more suitable? Users

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 03:01:12PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > The tech committee has a private group debian-ctte-private. > > When I became a maintainer I heard only of one private list (which I was > subscribed on), debian-private. Why isn't that address written somewhere? Sorry, I was wrong.

Re: Reviving Debian QA

1999-03-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 02:46:59PM -0600, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > Now that several new maintainers mentioned QA or QA-like work in their > > new-maintainers application I'd like to invite people to work on QA > > for Debian. This doesn't need a fully fledged developer but also > > people who can o

Re: Upstream maintainers are sleeping (Was: Reviving Debian QA

1999-03-29 Thread Adam Di Carlo
> "Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephane> On Monday 29 March 1999, at 1 h 17, the keyboard of Adam Di Stephane> Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * check that patches that should be sent upstream are being sent >> upstream -- I think this is very important a

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Josip Rodin wrote: > > > BTW what can we do with maintainers who can't be reached by e-mails, > > > and their packages need attention? How can we know that they will/won't > > > > Please take a look at debian-policy where I've posted the 2nd half of > > Vincent's proposal. The QA team need to be

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Joey Hess wrote: > Martin Schulze wrote: > > Re-upload the known orphaned packages with the 'Maintainer' field > > set to: "Orphaned Package " > > We're currently using "Maintainer: Debian QA Group > " > > I forget whatever log-ago discussion requted in that exact string, but it is > already

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 09:53:01PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Maintainers: > > > > How much work is expected from the maintainers? > > Can we refrain from formalising this too much? Personally, I quite like the > way this works at the moment -- if there'

Re: Debian QA Policy Draft

1999-03-29 Thread Richard Braakman
Martin Schulze wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Re-upload the known orphaned packages with the 'Maintainer' field > > > set to: "Orphaned Package " > > > > We're currently using "Maintainer: Debian QA Group > > " > > > > I forget whatever log-ago discussion requted i

Re: Upstream maintainers are sleeping (Was: Reviving Debian QA

1999-03-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Monday 29 March 1999, at 1 h 17, the keyboard of Adam Di Carlo > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * check that patches that should be sent upstream are being sent > > upstream -- I think this is very important and I think we have a > > bit of a bad reputa

Re: how to participate?

1999-03-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 10:09:35PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Martin Schulze wrote: > > People who work on QA are: > > > > . Vincent > > . James > > . Torsten Landschoff > > . Christian Kurz > > . myself > > . Josip Rodin, future > . Joey Hess I work on the odd orphaned package occ