On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:22:17 -0500 Mark Loeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| Yes, Gentoo is supposed to be fun, but we also have a responsibility
| to our users to ensure we are providing them with the best possible
| distro we can.

What, you mean the tree isn't someone's personal playground?

| * The QA team may also offer to fix obvious typos and similar minor
|   issues, and silence from the package maintainers can be taken as
| agreement in such situations.

Should probably clarify that one. It's in there because there are some
situations where we find obvious typos (e.g. 'souce' instead of
'source' in DEPEND) and file a bug to alert the maintainer. If the
maintainer fixes it within a few days, there's no problem, but if not
there's no point in letting the bug sit there -- someone from QA should
be able to fix it themselves.

Equally, we don't want to just fix stuff without telling people that
they made a mistake, because then they're more likely to do it again.

| * The QA team will maintain a list of current "QA Standards".  The
| list is not meant by any means to be a comprehensive document, but
| rather a dynamic document that will be updated as new problems are
| discovered.

Hrm, do we want to include the thing about the QA standards providing
rationale and explanations rather than hard rules here?

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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