QA proposal for bugs

[Ramon van Alteren]

On Monday 15 March 2004 11:25, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Matt Rogers wrote:
> > The biggest help anyone in the quality team could do at the moment with
> > regard to bugs is to take an app in bugzilla, go through all the bugs,
> > using the wiki page at
> > http://wiki.kdenews.org/tiki-index.php?page=Bug+Triage as a guide.
>
> Yes, we need that as well.  I have done some of that in the past and I
> guess I should try to start again -- do my quota every week.

This is exactly the problem I have with your proposal. 
KDE is mostly a volunteer project. 
I do this for fun, I try to improve documentation, report bugs, test stuff 
when I have some spare time, because I enjoy doing it and because I enjoy 
returning some of my time and effort to the community that made KDE possible.

Anything which will require me to "do my quota every week" will take exactly 
that out of contributing to KDE.

The main cause of this discussion, an overflowing bug database with an massive 
amount of bugs in it, is actually IMHO one of the stronger assets of open 
source in general. 

There are evidently a lot of people who care about KDE and enjoy contributing 
to it. They file bug reports about the problems they find in the software so 
anyone feeling up to it can use that information to improve the code. 

I've read your proposal carefully and I do not think that it is a good 
proposal because it is way too formal and rigid. 
My impression is that it will actually raise the entry-level for people who 
want to contribute to KDE.

Kde-quality project was not started to provide KDE with QA, it was started 
because Carlos felt that the entry-level to contribute something to KDE was 
getting too high and wanted to provide people with a place to gather 
information on how to start and help each other while doing this.

There already is a small howto on how to handle bugs after they have been 
reported on the kde-quality home page. Maybe a link to the page in the wiki 
would be a good idea (http://wiki.kdenews.org/tiki-index.php?page=Bug+Triage)

I think they are both adequate. I don't think the problem with following up on 
bugs is in the process of doing that. I think the problem is that there are 
not enough people for the amount of bugs reported.

I would like to help amend that instead of discussing QA procedures :)

Just 2 cents,
-- 
Ramon

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