reflecting on 4.10

[Vishesh Handa]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday 11 January 2013, Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 January 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > hello.
> > >
> > > we're nearly at the point of releasing 4.10. with this development
> cycle
> > > very fresh in mind, it is a reasonble time to reflect on how it went.
> > > this thread can be a place for us to do so, if we so wish. and i hope
> we
> > > do so that we can improve our processes in the future.
> > >
> > > so how do you think 4.10 went?
> >
> > mixed feelings: we did a lot, but definitely as already noted the process
> > wasn't managed so well and the qa was not at the top (putting also myself
> > in the blame list for that, is something that each of us shares a bit)
>
> thinking more about it...
> maybe what we actually need is someone with a wide enough knowledge of the
> codebase, that continuously uses master and tests, poking people when
> regressions happen? (especially in areas far from what one usually works
> in,
> since for own area "proximity blindness" can happen) this kindof happens
> already, but there isn't anythng "formal "about it
>
> it would be something not fun to do at all, but perhaps is kinda needed?
> a figure that help the release manager?
>

I think this is too big for one person.

It might be better to allocate different people to different parts of
Plasma & Kwin. Preferably based on their configuration. We could even make
up a page of who uses what kind of configuration (generally), and
accordingly see what isn't being covered.


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Vishesh Handa
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