Are packages in Fedora Extras not being QA?

[Warren Togami]

Brian Pepple wrote:
> I just installed a package (starfighter) from Fedora Extras, and it
> looks like the package hasn't had any QA done.  There's some obvious
> problems with it, that would have been caught if the QA procedures that
> were established at Fedora.us were being used.  Has any formal QA
> procedures been set-up for Fedora Extras yet?
> 

It seems that many refused to contribute to fedora.us because there were 
QA requirements. </cynicism>

For now treat the newer packages in Extras as rawhide-ish.  Just file a 
Bugzilla report.  The owner is supposed to be responsible for fixing it.

In the future I hope we will begin using the "testing" tree for new 
packages, and only after testing they be moved to the "extras" tree. 
This may actually happen soon now that the trees actually exist...

http://www.fedora.us/PUBLISH
However as the backlog here indicates, contributors seem to think 
TESTING THINGS BEFORE RELEASING is unreasonably difficult.  Is it?

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com