[Koha-devel] Proposal for Assistance with QA Testing for Koha 3.6

[Chris Cormack]

On 3 Aug 2011 05:39, "Stephen Wills" <swills at beyond-print.com> wrote:
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> +1, QAM is not the same as carry the yolk alone!

Indeed, and like Marcel I have no issues in this case. But I do think he is
right about it being a community decision.

Having said that, I think paul will do fine.

But everyone can help, it still shouldn't be left to Ian and Paul. How can
you help you ask.
Write a how to test on your bug
Write a good description of what the patch should do, remember the more you
tell, the easier it is to test
Write accompanying tests.
And even though a patch has been signed off, there is no reason you can't
add your signoff too. To strengthen the confidence we have that the patch
will work.

It is a law of the universe, immutable even.
Release Managers Law : In no circumstances ever can a patch have too many
sign offs

Chris
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> On Aug 2, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Ian Walls wrote:
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>> Dear Community,
>>
>>
>> As you are likely aware, I am the elected Quality Assurance Manager for
the 3.6 release.  As you may also be aware, there are currently 96 patches
in Bugzilla that are signed off and ready for QA testing (at the time of
this writing).  My goal for my term as QAM was to keep this list under 10,
but as we can see, that's not the current state of things.
>>
>> I do not want to become a bottleneck against good code getting into
Koha.  Quality Assurance is by it's nature a painstaking process, especially
with more complex patches, to ensure that there are no regressions of
functionality, or massive, unexpected shifts in default behavior.  Often,
numerous configurations of data need to checked against, to make sure fixing
a bug for one possible setup doesn't cause a new bug in another.  So far,
we've not had to pull any code from master due to a regression, so it seems
this process is working.  But, that said, we've still got nearly a hundred
patches waiting in the queue.
>>
>> Paul Poulain has offered to assist me with QA for the remainder of the
Koha 3.6 release cycle.  He's got the hours to dedicate towards this, and
can help put some of these patches through their paces.  While anyone can
test any patch that's been published (and everyone is encouraged to do so),
Paul is asking for the additional power to mark the patches he's tested as
"Passed QA" if they do indeed pass his tests.  Here are the exact terms of
the proposal:
>>
>> a) he would not mark any patch he himself has written as Passed QA
>> b) any patch written by BibLibre would need a signoff from another,
external person before he'd test it
>> c) he would start with the patches that have been waiting the longest
>> d) the QAM and RM could reject any "Passed QA" patch if they feel it's
not sufficient for whatever reason (which would need to be noted in the bug
report)
>>
>> I do not feel that I necessarily have the right to transfer the "mark
patches as Passed QA" power over to another person without the community's
consent.  So, I bring this to the group.  Is this an acceptable proposal?
Does the QAM have the right to "deputize" community members and transfer
this particular power, or does the community need to vote on it?  Are there
any aspects of the issue that I'm missing?
>>
>> Thanks for your consideration and attention on this matter,
>>
>>
>>
>> -Ian
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ian Walls
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