Re: [QA] To clone or not to clone ( a bug report ) that's the question...

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
>  "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>    
> > It's the packager/maintainer/developer and only them that make this
> > decision.
> >     
>
>  Then the decision should be made through a channel of
>  packagers/maintainers/developers (or maybe their representatives, i.e.
>  FESCo), not in a QA meeting!
>
>    
> > If maintainer decides not to participate and then finds him disliking
> > the end result then he got nobody else to blame but him self.
> >     
>
>  If you want maintainers to take the decision, a QA meeting is the wrong
>  venue.
>
>          Kevin Kofler
>
>     
If you and others think this decision should be in the hand of FESCo 
instead of QA
then I would like FESCo to add this topic to their next meeting agenda 
and I truly
hope they can reach a satisfying result.

The QA meeting topic as I see it was just about counting the votes on 
the thread
and make that an official decision.

I also see that asking the maintainers for what they wanted was an error 
on my behalf.

Testers need training guidelines and policies to work by, a proper "work 
flow" and if the
responses to every matter are going to be like this one I simply cut out 
the inefficient process.

I will write those guidelines policy and provide testers with a decent 
work flow.

Anyone that opposes anything in that guideline can than pick out 
questionable issues , make them to a topic on this
list or ask FESCo to address those issue(s) in their meetings.

There will be no time "pressure" matter since the guideline has already 
been written and made
so debates can be stuck in infinite loop until the storage space on the 
mail server fills up..

When and if an actually satisfying result comes out of it, a person can 
simply log into the wiki and adjust the
the guidelines to that result..

With this approach testers will at least have something in their hand to 
work with
which will indeed improve the overall process of bug reporting.

Thank you for your time.

JBG

/*JFDI to da bone.. */