[maemo-developers] QA from extras-devel to extras-testing

[From: Andre Klapper]

Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 12:06 +0200 schrieb Jeremiah Foster:
> On May 4, 2009, at 11:11, Dave Neary wrote:
> > Isn't this bugs.maemo.org? Is there a good reason not to use this for
> > Maemo packaging issues?
> 
> I think that is a fine idea. Do people know that it can be used for  
> this sort of thing? I personally welcome packaging issues relating to  
> maemo to be submitted to bugs.maemo.org and will work hard to keep up  
> to date with them.

> > For bugs in the software, the individual package's bug tracker is more
> > appropriate - I hate to see bugs aggregate in a distribution's bug
> > tracking system & never make it upstream to the people who know how to
> > fix them.
> 
> Good point. But haven't we avoided the issue of requiring "that  
> packages have bug trackers, and use them for QA"? How is one going to  
> enforce bug trackers on applications submitted to Maemo? And if  
> someone does not want to create a bug tracker, for whatever reason,  
> how can we convince them not to open their own repo if Maemo rejects  
> their package?

You could use maemo.org Bugzilla for this - creating a product is less
than 5 minutes of work.
However packaging is not a product, but one aspect of a product, so I'd
prefer to see bug reports filed against the specific product. In general
products should (must?) have a bugtracker - otherwise I consider the
developers/maintainers to not be interested in user feedback.

So we could have a kind of "General Packaging issues" product in
Bugzilla and clearly add a description like
"Please file Packaging issues against the corresponding bugtracker of
the product. Only file them here if you were unable to find the right
place. Note that you can contact a package maintainer by email: See the
address in the Details section of a package in the Application Manager".

An "Elaborate how you tried to find the right place (and failed)" would
be interesting too for us and package maintainers to see what can be
improved.

My two cents,
andre
-- 
Andre Klapper (maemo.org bugmaster)