Fedora.us QA

[Warren Togami]

Toshio wrote:
>>>1. Does the package follow the Fedora Package Naming Guidelines? 
>>This is pretty darn complicated for a newbie QA'er. They should be
>>allowed to opt out.
> 
> My problem with opting out was stated above: what if two QA'ers review
> the package and both opt-out?
> 

This is a total non-issue, because the elders will at a glance notice a 
problem and suggest a solution.  Most new packagers got it wrong at 
least once or twice, but after being corrected they almost never made a 
mistake again.

> Speaking as a fedora user/developer -- I don't care so much that
> packages wait in the QA queue.  If I see something I want there, I
> download and review it and if it works well I start driving :-)

There are PLENTY of other users capable of doing this, but what has 
happened in the past year is people bitch, abandon ship, or create their 
own boat (3rd party repositories) rather than put time into the 
collaborative project.  A collaborative project only scales if labor scales.

Then there are a multitude of other users who do not understand the 
system well enough to do the above.  Some in this category expect lots 
of quality work to be done and contribute nothing but noise themselves. 
  It makes matters worse when they think they know better and bitch 
about things going slowly.  This is why I personally almost totally 
burned out and avoid #fedora and even #fedora-devel most of the time 
these days.  This is the only way I can keep any sanity.

Constructive criticism is appreciated, but otherwise I will need to 
start using a personal killfile in order to get anything productive done.

(Note that this response is not targeted at you, but certain others.)

Warren