Setting up a Quality Team within KDE

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 11 April 2012, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 April 2012 6:38:52 PM Michael Jansen wrote:
> > On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 09:20:57 AM Allen Winter wrote:
> > > On Thursday 05 April 2012 7:42:48 AM Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > A new mailing list has been set up in order to discuss all this:
> > > > please subscribe to it if you would like to be part of this
> > > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-testing
> > > > An IRC channel also was created on Freenode:
> > > > #kde-quality
> > > > 
> > > > Please join the mailing list and the IRC channel so we can setup a
> > > > plan to start putting all this in gear!
> > > 
> > > Let's please end this discussion about the various tools and stuff here
> > > on k-c-d.
> > > 
> > > If you want to talk about those things, please use the new kde-testing
> > > mailing list or the IRC channel which are dedicated to the broader
> > > topic.
> > 
> > I am starting to get annoyed by that please follow me to the secluded
> > place over there so noone can listen in thing that is creeping up in
> > kde.
> > 
> > I do no consider this ml a to high volume one and this stuff is in my
> > opinion exactly what this list should be about. By moving the discussion
> > out of here you just guarantee that whatever is chosen will sit in
> > obscurity like before.
> > 
> > Because i won't follow you. And i guess some others won't either.
> 
> I don't get your objection.
> 
> Well, I sorta do.
> 
> I agree that CDash vs. Jenkins vs. Foo is a valid topic for core-devel.
> 
> But  KDE Quality Testing is a valid subproject, not of interest
> to everyone, and therefore should be discussed in separate channels,
> as per our time-honored tradition.

IMO this is not so much a time-honored tradition, it just became more in the 
last time.
It may be also worth considering whether it is really a good idea to start 
from scratch with a new mailing list, instead of reusing an existing one in 
the beginning, and switch to a separate list once a certain critical mass has 
been reached. By using an already existing list in the beginning more people 
will follow, offer advice, and maybe help.

Alex