-quality moderation

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday 22 January 2007 15:35, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> As y'all may have noticed, the kde-quality list moderator is missing in
> action; Carlos has not been spotted in a *long* time and that shows, both
> in the moderation of this list and the maintainence of the quality.kde.org
> website (it's still all about KDE 3.4, for instance). This leads to
> "bursty" mail as the queue is emptied from time to time by our very busy
> sysadmins.
>
> This means we really need to think about the viability of a "quality team"
> as a place to get started with KDE contribution. We have a much better
> mailing list, howtohelp at kde.org, for getting started. It is linked from a
> variety of places -- just do a web search for it.
>
> The content of the website overlaps enormously with other efforts, like
> http://www.kde.org/getinvolved/ ; if we move in some of the more detailed
> content from quality.kde.org we can afterwards ditch the domain (or rather:
> do something with it that matches the name better).
>
> Doing that would re-focus this mailing list as a quality *assurance* list,
> or quality *checking* and away from newcomers and away from being a dumping
> ground for things-that-might-improve-kde. The latter two are better served
> elsewhere (howtohelp@, kde-usability@ or applications specific lists). Then
> the focus of this list would become:
>
> - KDE quality assurance
>   - coordination of bug triage
>   - bug dispute resolution
>   - coding guidelines and standards
>   - code checking
>   - verification of KDE code
>   - research into KDE quality

Sounds good.

I'd suggest as next steps: 
- Clean up quality.kde.org and point the "iwannahelp" case to howtohelp,
- at the same time give the howtohelp list some exposure, so there actually 
  are people dealing with the incoming requests for handholding
- redirect people from here with a pointer to the above to the relevant 
  mailinglist: howtohelp, kde-usability, /dev/null and so on
-- 
sebas

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