2012-10-08, 2012-10-15, 2012-10-22 - Fedora QA Meeting - recap

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 07:18 -0600, Tim Flink wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 09:48:47 +0000
> "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 10/24/2012 03:33 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > 	  criterion" - not done yet
> > > 	* "tflink to ask other interested parties (anaconda team,
> > > 	  fesco...) to look over the beta criteria and see if
> > > there's anything they feel should be dialled down" - not done yet
> > 
> > Since you guys seem to be not confident enough in our own criteria 
> > writing perhaps we should just stop writing them and have FESCO
> > writing those for us?
> 
> I think there is a difference between confidence and realizing that
> we (and by we, I mean Fedora QA) are not omniscient - we can't
> possibly know everything about what's reasonable and what makes up
> a set of acceptably comprehensive criteria to describe an acceptable
> release.
> 
> There is wisdom in getting input from other groups - QA is a part of
> Fedora as a whole, not some completely isolated group which dictates
> the definition of a quality release. There is also wisdom in not setting
> the bar too high - that's a great path to irrelevance and having the
> criteria ignored.

Right. I do wish you wouldn't exaggerate things, Johann. The criteria
are a part of Fedora as a whole, they define what the project considers
minimum acceptable functionality for each release point. They are not
solely a QA issue, other teams clearly have input into the question.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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