Re: [gentoo-dev] enroll users for testing packages

2006-04-12 Thread Stephen P. Becker
didn't he ask for people who know a particular application very well? If you actually read the GLEP, you will note that there is a provision to expand the idea to include herd testers. i think there is a big difference between agreeing to test one particular package since they know it very

Re: [gentoo-dev] enroll users for testing packages

2006-04-12 Thread Daniel Goller
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 09:48 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: didn't he ask for people who know a particular application very well? If you actually read the GLEP, you will note that there is a provision to expand the idea to include herd testers. someone might like to help with testing one

Re: [gentoo-dev] enroll users for testing packages

2006-04-11 Thread Daniel Goller
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 09:36 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: Eldad Zack wrote: Hello, Sometimes it becomes a problem whenever a new release or a tricky bugfix comes up for a certain package. To improve QA we can let our userbase help, especially people who use certain packages

Re: [gentoo-dev] enroll users for testing packages

2006-04-11 Thread Andrew Muraco
Daniel Goller wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 09:36 -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: Eldad Zack wrote: Hello, Sometimes it becomes a problem whenever a new release or a tricky bugfix comes up for a certain package. To improve QA we can let our userbase help, especially people who use

Re: [gentoo-dev] enroll users for testing packages

2006-04-11 Thread Olivier Crete
On Tue, 2006-11-04 at 19:35 -0500, Daniel Goller wrote: Isn't this why we already have the arch tester position as described by GLEP 41 (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0041.html)? Furthermore, are you saying that users would enroll themselves via this hypothetical web