When to set VERIFIED in BugZilla?

[Carlos Leonhard Woelz]

JRT,

No need to be argumentative here.

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:39:53 -0700, "James Richard Tyrer"
<tyrerj at acm.org> said:
> Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 March 2004 16:55, Carlos Leonhard Woelz wrote:
> > 
> >> There is no QA in KDE currently. There are no volunteers for the hard 
> >> (and technical) work of designing such programm, and no volunteers for
> >>  doing the massive work of following all bugs.
> > 
> > 
> > I think there are more rewarding
> 
> What rewards a person differs among people.
> 
> > and more useful things to do than setting up a formal quality assurance
> > process for KDE.
> 
> Users would disagree.  The most important task for KDE is to effectively
> deal with the mountain of bugs.  There are several aspects of this, but
> for
> the current ones, some sort of *informal* Quality Assurance process is
> clearly needed.  For the obsolete ones, they simply need to be CLOSED.
> This leaves a lot of old ones that need to have something else done with
> them -- some need to be updated.  And I am certain that there are many
> that
> will fall into the category of 'other'.

This rant is totally unecessary: Cornelius is just stating that a
*formal* QA is unecessary. See this thread and documents for what a
formal QA requires:

http://lists.kde.org/?t=107480372200001&r=1&w=2

> > Considering the argument "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow",
> > one could even take the position that there is actually no need for a
> > quality assurance process.
> 
> Since there are not "enough eyeballs" this would be a wrong assumption.
> Specifically, one of the aims of a distributed Quality Assurance process
> is
> to get more "eyeballs" and to get them properly focused -- good
> organization can (to some degree) compensate for a lack of numbers.

We have a distributed QA now: bugzilla. If you have a proposition to
improve it, then formulate it. And please  concentrate your ideas in one
e-mail. There is no need to answer all of them.
-- 
  Carlos Leonhard Woelz
  carloswoelz at imap-mail.com

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