Request: please consider clarifying the project's position on Spins

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 14:54, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 13:42 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
>> There is also the question of who /tests/ the things that are produced.
>
> On that topic I should make it clear that my goal with enforcing testing
> for popular spins was to have the QA group *co-ordinate* testing, but
> have the relevant spin SIGs contribute significantly to actually
> performing it. This worked out quite well in practice for F14 final; we
> got the test matrices almost completed for all four top spins, with
> members of the KDE, XFCE and LXDE SIGs contributing most of the testing
> for the final RC.
>
> I don't think it'd be sustainable in the long term to have required
> testing for the spins, but not have the spin SIGs contribute to that
> testing.

>From the report of the Spins committee last release.. the Spins group
was in bad shape themselves. Between all the problems with ownership,
testing issues, lack of manpower, and just the approach of live images
had the last spin person saying he wasn't doing it any more.



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