On 20/01/10, 14:46:49, Maciej "(Matchek)" Blizinski <[email protected]> wrote regarding Re: [csw-maintainers] new mailing list?:
> It's true that in most cases it will be boring, but I think it's > important to have the submission information available, of anyone > wants to access it. The problem with sendmail effort comes to mind. > The release is one important broadcast, but a package submission is > also an important event, if you think about the dynamics of the > maintainer group. No, it's not important. No one outside the group needs to know. > > There may be some messages associated with refusal. If broadcast and > > recorded by a mailing list there is the potential for public humiliation. > Humiliation of whom do you mean? Presumably the idiot that submits a sparc package with intel binaries. If you are not embarrassed to submit packages with such fundamental mistakes your standards are low. > There would be nothing the contents > of the submitted packages. If there was anything horribly broken > about the package, it would be seen by the public at the testing/ > stage. Oh yes? If this were true no package would ever fail which isn't true, so the initial assertion is also untrue. > > Any useful information should be condensed from the flow and put on the > > maintainers' list or a "How (not) to make a package" web page. I'll > > start here with common problems and top tips: ... > Everything that can be automated, should be automated. Documenting > isn't a bad idea, but the things you've described above, thinking > aside, are mundane and boring. Doing them each time for each package > is a waste of braincycles and keystrokes. Yes it's boring and mundane. Please explain why someone else should do this for you? More importantly why I have been. You seem to not understand anything about the effort involved in QA. > To recap, the boring mailing list is for visibility, traceability, > cross-pollination and coordination, while all the lessons learned > should be transformed into code which makes sure that the spotted > problems will never happen again. Visibility of what? I'm confused as to what you think exists that is being kept from you - and I'm not saying you shouldn't see it, only that it obscures useful information. James. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
