Need to do something

Hilaire Fernandes hilaire at ext.cri74.org
Wed Oct 19 07:22:54 UTC 2005


Andreas Raab a écrit :

> - Change the role of what is currently understood to be the "harvesters" 
> to something like a "release tester" group. The role of which group is 
> mostly to do integration testing by loading the packages from the 
> various maintainer's sites and test them. If there are issues the 
> release testers should report them back to the package maintainers and 
> work with them to fix these. Unilateral actions should only be taken if 
> a maintainer is unresponsible and there is real time pressure.

Is not integration testing be something to be done by the package 
maintainers themeselves? (of course with the help of the release tester 
group as you definied it).
This could help to keep low the overheating, in particular when 
maintainers are not interested/can not help for integration.

If a maintainers is not interested/can not work for the integration, the 
package could just be dropped. Just the usual process of free software: 
evolve or die.

If you look at how it works for the Gnome or KDE applications, with each 
new major Gnome and KDE release, the applications developpers must 
updated their own code to get it work with the new desktop release (and 
I know about that).
It is not a task the core developers of Gnome and KDE can do.

Hilaire Fernandes




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