Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-27 Thread Renat Lumpau
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 08:37:09PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:26:10 + Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:08 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Abuse from people like you whenever someone finally gets brave | enough to document all

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:45:30 + Renat Lumpau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Then please start with bug 120088. Once that one's fixed we'll go | from there. | | #120088 (dev-lang/php breaks non-interactivity and does not work on | default USE) has nothing to do with webapp-config. What's your

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-27 Thread Stuart Herbert
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 20:37 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Then please start with bug 120088. Once that one's fixed we'll go from there. That bug has nothing to do with webapp-config. That bug is for PHP. Could you file one that is, please? Many thanks, Stu -- Stuart Herbert

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-27 Thread Renat Lumpau
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 08:54:45PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:45:30 + Renat Lumpau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Then please start with bug 120088. Once that one's fixed we'll go | from there. | | #120088 (dev-lang/php breaks non-interactivity and does not work

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-27 Thread Grant Goodyear
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: My point is that that's a nasty QA bug that's relying upon input from Stuart to be fixed. Whilst that one's still alive, I'm not going to go around filing more similar breaks non-interactively bugs because the discussion will just get repeated over and over. Huh? I

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-27 Thread Stuart Herbert
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 20:54 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: My point is that that's a nasty QA bug that's relying upon input from Stuart to be fixed. I'm afraid you've been mis-informed. The PHP herd has provided a set of default USE flags to go into the profiles, and there's a comment at the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-27 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Grant Goodyear wrote: Ciaran McCreesh wrote: My point is that that's a nasty QA bug that's relying upon input from Stuart to be fixed. Whilst that one's still alive, I'm not going to go around filing more similar breaks non-interactively bugs because the discussion will just get repeated over

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
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? | *

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread johnm
My personal opinion here is that a _LOT_ of this should be common sense. But just to put in my two pennies.. On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 05:22:17PM -0500, Mark Loeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * The QA team's purpose is to provide cross-herd assistance in keeping the tree in a good state. This is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread johnm
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 10:58:35PM +, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | * 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 |

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:11:21 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 05:22:17PM -0500, Mark Loeser | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | * The QA team's purpose is to provide cross-herd assistance in | keeping the tree in a good state. This is done primarily by finding | and pointing

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread johnm
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:21:47PM +, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:11:21 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 05:22:17PM -0500, Mark Loeser | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | * The QA team's purpose is to provide cross-herd assistance in

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Alec Warner
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | * In the case of disagreement on policy among QA members, the | majority of established QA members must agree with the action. | | Perhaps pushing it to an open forum on -dev/-core for consensus works | better here? The problem with that is, it usually ends up

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Stuart Herbert
Hi Mark, Thanks for posting this. I've a few suggestions to make (see below). I support all the other points in your proposal. On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 17:22 -0500, Mark Loeser wrote: * In case of emergency, or if package maintainers refuse to cooperate, the QA team may take action themselves

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Stuart Herbert
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 18:41 -0500, Alec Warner wrote: While you may not think that soliciting comments is useful ( and in some limited cases I would agree with you ) giving people the opportunity to comment also means you just covered your ass, in terms of people going where the hell did that

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Daniel Goller
On Sunday 26 February 2006 16:58, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: 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.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Loeser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: yeah, thats totally understandable. Its a best-efforts thing. I just don't want neccessary to be deemed true for something which has an arguable point with technical merit. Blatent mkdir-esque madness would be more black than white, and I'd hope for this to try and

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Loeser
Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This is meant to prevent the case where the QA team ( or a subset; the established QA members ) decides to make unilateral changes to the tree ( or large subset thereof ) without even necessarily talking to the affected developers. While you may not think

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mark Loeser wrote: Well, instead of putting the debate into an even larger crowd, this enables the QA team to act in the way it sees best first. If people believe we were wrong, then we give them the option to talk to the council about one of our changes. Also, we aren't unwilling to hear

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Loeser
Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 17:22 -0500, Mark Loeser wrote: * In case of emergency, or if package maintainers refuse to cooperate, the QA team may take action themselves to fix the problem. I'd like to see this say * In case of emergency, or after a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Loeser
Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser wrote: Well, instead of putting the debate into an even larger crowd, this enables the QA team to act in the way it sees best first. If people believe we were wrong, then we give them the option to talk to the council about one of our

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Loeser
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:22:17 -0500 Mark Loeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | * 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mark Loeser wrote: Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mark Loeser wrote: Well, instead of putting the debate into an even larger crowd, this enables the QA team to act in the way it sees best first. If people believe we were wrong, then we give them the option to talk to the council

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Mark Loeser
Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: No, it's the exact opposite of what you're saying. You want to commit first and let the maintainer bring it to the council. I'm saying the maintainer has the right to have any non-security commit to his/her package reverted pending a decision. Yea, I

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Mark Loeser wrote: Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The maintainer should be the absolute authority over his/her packages, and only the council should be able to overrule maintainer decisions in the case of disagreement between the maintainer and anybody else. I think it really

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 16:29 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mark Loeser wrote: Well, instead of putting the debate into an even larger crowd, this enables the QA team to act in the way it sees best first. If people believe we were wrong, then we give them the option to talk to the council

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Ned Ludd
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 19:34 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Mark Loeser wrote: Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The maintainer should be the absolute authority over his/her packages, and only the council should be able to overrule maintainer decisions in the case of disagreement

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role

2006-02-26 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Ned Ludd wrote: On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 19:34 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: I'm looking at this as innocent until proven guilty versus guilty until proven innocent. When parties are in disagreement, the _current_ situation should stand until the council (or the two groups in question) resolves

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