-quality moderation

[Orville Bennett]

On Jan 22, 2007, at 9:35 AM, 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
>
>
I like it. I like it a lot. Carry on! (and holler if help's needed w/  
something in particular of course :-)
> -- 
> Adriaan de Groot
>   KDE Quality Team   http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/
>   SQO-OSS Researcher http://www.sqo-oss.eu/
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It is impossible to make anything foolproof because us fools are so  
ingenious.



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