RE: Summary of meeting 20031119-1

"Frantz Dhin" <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:50:52 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.zynot.general,gmane.linux.zynot.devel
Organization Zynot Foundation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I like the voting system and level attributes. I do see the need for a
slight modification though, and it lies in the procedures used for
acknowledging a package. These procedures are not set in stone yet, but
let's say that they were something like "A package must be acknowledged by
package maintainer and a trusted user before making it into an official
zynot distribution". If it turns out to be a rigid demand in this fashion it
would not matter how many "community points" or stats bonuses a package got.
The system should still effectively block a package from getting into the
distribution before the procedure demands were satisfied.

A thought I got when reading this is that ideally we should integrate this
voting system with our yet-to-come automatic regression test suites. This
means a package that passes all tests and a distro that passes all
regression tests after the package has been inserted would add points to the
package. Essentially this means to add regression testing as a player on the
same level as a core developer. 

Just some thoughts....

-Frantz