Report from the QA Hackathon

[Gabor Szabo]

Hi,

as you might know from previous discussions there was a QA Hackathon
in Oslo between 5-7 April.
http://perl-qa.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Oslo_QA_Hackathon_2008
There were a few Debian and FreeBSD packagers.
Unfortunately no Fedora packager came.

Anyway, we have worked on several issues. The one that is very
relevant to you ppl is
that we added a metric to CPANTS http://cpants.perl.org/ called
easily_repackageable_by_fedora

It is an aggregate metric that is currently based on the following metrics:
  no_generated_files
  fits_fedora_license

That is, the easily_repackageable_by_fedora will be green only if both
of those are ok.

Descriptions can be found here:
http://cpants.perl.org/kwalitee.html


While this is a start we have many more things to do:
1) I'd like to get your help in defining which other metrics should
    be used for aggregating into the easily_repackageable_by_fedora metric.

2) We are currently working fetching the licenses directly from the
.pm files as well.
    I hope to integrate that too.

3) We have discussed with the Debian and FreeBSD ppl but it might also
interest you guys
    to include two metrics: has_no_bugs_in_fedora  has_no_pacthes_in_fedora
    The first one would indicate if there is a bug in the fedora bug
tracking system filed
    against the distribution.
    The second one would indicate that Fedora had to patch the module
in order to distribute it.
    What do you think?

So why would you care?
I think this can largely help the communication between the module
authors and the
Fedora packagers. This can be a good way to communicate back to the module
authors what are the main issues you are dealing with and how can they
make your life
easier.

regards
   Gabor Szabo
   http://www.szabgab.com/