rawhide and Fedora QA [was Re: why I'm using Ubuntu instead of Fedora ATM]

[Luis Villa]

On 7/23/07, Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> wrote:
> On 7/23/07, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 18:51 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > (Apologies for the lag, life has been a little crazy of late; I've
> > > been trying to escape from the computer when not actually needing to
> > > be in front of it :)
> >
> > Let me know how that works out. ;-)
> >
> > (Myself, I just combine - right now I'm making plum jam, cooking dinner
> > for the family, cleaning the kitchen, making a blessed cup of coffee,
> > and my mind is thinking and writing.)
> >
> > > I was told in IRC that my Fedora account (non-bugzilla) needed a
> > > particular group, which appeared to be confirmed by:
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/#head-69a2fdca9900f61c9b53d353b2bc5b09d58fdf70
> >
> > On the face of it, it seems broken to require anything more than a plain
> > ol' bugzilla account to file and comment on bugs, and close any you
> > filed.  I insist on the need for the account so there is a way to
> > contact a reporter - email address thereby being the sole requirement.
>
> I want to do more than that; I want to help triage and organize bugs.
> But apparently that requires a fedora account.
>
> More generally, the wiki implies that any contribution (even bug
> filing) requires a Fedora account.
>
> > > QA, really. The CLA is just one symptom of that; the lack of
> > > information about rawhide; the poor treatment of updates-testing users
> > > (things broken for many days, which discourages people from using
> > > updates-testing at all); the lack of usable definitions for
> > > severity/priority all jump out.
> >
> > Is there a list like this on the Wiki?  Somewhere we can prioritize and
> > account for shortfall.
>
> I don't believe so. I'm not into creating pages on wikis when no one
> seems to acknowledge

Oops. '...when no one seems to acknowledge there is a problem which
needs to be documentated in the wiki.'

Luis