Re: Jesus Espino - qa team?

2010/8/9 Jesús Espino <[email protected]>

> Thanks.
>
> I have some questions:
>
>  1. I want to maintain a orphaned package (not only apply patches of
> fix some bugs), i can add me as leader, or better fix the bugs as QA
> member??
>
Better to do it with your QA hat on.

 2. when a package is orphaned i d need to ask anybody to fix bugs??
>
Nope!  Just don't break anything :)

>  3. On orphaned packages QA members act as leaders?? close
> fixed/bogus bugs, apply patches, etc??
>
> That's it in one.


> Greetings.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Daniel O'Connor
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Summary of votes:
> > Ken Guest: +1
> > Daniel O'Connor: +1
> > David Coallier: + 1
> > Michael Gauthier: +1
> >
> > Not technically enough according to
> > http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=60 ; but I would
> suggest
> > it's within the spirit of the RFC.
> >
> > So, Jesus - congratulations, welcome to the QA team. If you haven't
> already
> > I would suggest you subscribe to pear-qa to participate in discussions
> like
> > this.
> >
> > Also; have a read through the above link for the ins and outs of what we
> do.
> >
> > Some obvious things to point out:
> >  1. You have the svn/pearweb/political clout to go in and fix bugs in
> > packages if they are serious (BC breaks, parse errors, security, etc); or
> > ignored for over a month after you've hassled the authors.
> >  2. If you do bugfixes/etc; ensure you mention it in the relevant svn
> > commits
> >  3. As above for releases: if you are releasing a package for QA
> purposes,
> > whack "QA release" into the changelog
> >  4. Try to work with existing maintainers and give them a chance to fix
> > things up.
> >  5. Obviously you don't need to become a maintainer on all of the
> packages
> >
> > Let us know if you've got questions
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Daniel O'Connor <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> He's floating around doing QA work; and it'll be simpler than adding him
> >> as a maintainer everywhere
> >> Votes?
> >
> >
>