QA Actions [Was Re: [PEAR-DEV] Re: [PEAR-QA] Re: [PEAR-BUG] Bug #1396 [Ver]: Performance is "very" slow]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Some more features for the Bug notifications or whatever they are called - - Devs shouls opt in/out of such a system - - Devs should not feel abliged to fix these bugs in any time frame (I guess exceptions apply here when a packages is abandoned) Lukas Smith wrote: | Yavor Shahpasov wrote: | | | Absolutely agreed. Maybe we should have made sure that old bugs get | picked for this report. However beyond that there was little that could | have been done with any reasonable effort to make these reminders any | better than what we got. Now its obvious that those people who are very | active got the most annoyed by this. However I guess we hoped that those | people who know their open bug reports would not take this personal. We | do have however open bug reports that have lingered for ages and we do | have a QA RFC which specifies that we have to send out reminders before | taking actions. | | Anyways in the end we are trying to help. Your criticism will ensure | that we will in the future be a bit mor elegant and focused when we do. | |> I believe that the QA team should concentrate on other things in order |> to be usefully to PEAR. They should be testing new releases and |> monitoring CVS. Suggesting improvements to code and spotting bugs. |> They should be the onces opening the bugs not reminding us of it. | | | Uhm a good share of the open bug reports have been opened by QA. | Ok maybe am wearing by black glasses today. Since the above is not apparent maybe work done under the qa umbrella should be distingushed some how. Like some sig on the bug report or something. Will help us see the good the QA is doing and take some initiatives more lightly. |> Am seeing PEAR grow more and more beurocratic lately. For my recent |> updates on auth most of the feedback I got was related to CS. I know |> it is important but I think quality of code should come first and this |> is where people should concentrate. | | | For that particular one I know quite well that I spotted and reported a | BC bug in Auth .. | What I said above is that there was more emphasis on coding style rather than the actuall code, I did not imply that no usefull feedback was given on Auth. - -- Yavor Shahpasov yavo@siava.org Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFA8mMiStotaDevvJARAotWAJ9eeH8IZeEDLrdxACIL0HGGrM/OewCfdk0H 958of0Ghsq2/hX0TYzwDE8s= =oClf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----