My task for the next ~6 months

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 02/20/2012 04:19 AM, Jon Stanley wrote:
> I had a conversation with Adam at FUDCon about things that might be
> beneficial to QA that I could champion and make sure that it happened,
> and provide regular status reports, the whole nine yards. What we came
> up with is updating "How to debug" and "How to test" pages in the
> wiki, soliciting input from maintainers, etc.

When I initiated that effort after those initial proposals of mine I 
came pretty fast to the conclusion that in order to be able to do that 
we needed to have it mandatory for packagers/maintainers to submit at 
least a minimum debugging information for new components which we QA ( 
or more me at the time )  could create proper debugging pages around 
that info.

I even went to the lengths to request that from Fesco/FPC which settled 
on making it "optional" for packagers to do so.

Needless to say now 6000+ components later we have no more how to debug 
or how to test pages then we did back then which makes it pretty evident 
that unless fesco/fpc make it mandatory you will be chasing your tail 
and other maintainers for a long time before it's completed.

I appraise your efforts in taking up the torch where I left it and my 
advice to you is start with the critical path packages then work your 
way up from there.

JBG