Hi Drew, *, On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Drew Jensen<[email protected]> wrote: > Mechtilde wrote: >>>> >>>> Christian (cloph) wrote some good points in his mail. I will citate. >>>> >>>> Developers should not be bothered with QA. >>>> The developers should .. be interested in QA. >>>> > > Should developers be 'bothered' with QA? - I sure hope so - they are the > major contributors to a quality product.
See the full post then. What is meant here is QA as done by the QA-project/the QA-volunteers. The biggest part of which is dealing with IssueZilla & performing (manual or autmoatic) Tests with the Office application. Of course developers do review code/patches, sometimes the QA-person does review the code that changed. But again: that part of "QA" is not what I did mean in that statement. "But of course in my view of what "QA" is in the OpenOffice.org project [...] Other people have different views about QA, so it is always hard when generalizing." > Do developers have any responsibility to update Specification documents > should any 'minor' changes occur to functionality during actual > implementation? Do they? Does QA verify this? Of course. Again not necissarily by themselves, but of course they must notify the other iTeam members when the behaviour needs to be changed for whatever reason. The whole point in having a specification is that everybody agrees upon what is written in the spec, not what the developer might find more appropriate. (which doesn't mean that the spec cannot be reviewed to match the developer's view, but of course not without consent of the other members). But then again.. What is "minor"? > OK - Should they be 'bothered' with the intake process for bug reports? Not > if it can be helped > - although there will, IME, always be some issues that will/can not be > confirmed until the developer actually gets involved. All that already taken into account and part of the initial post. Mechtilde did shorten the part for brevity, to put emphasis on the relevant part. You mustn't treat this as rules written in stone. ciao Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
