[Koha-devel] Signing-off a patch for a customer

[Paul Poulain]

Le 28/05/2012 17:46, Jared Camins-Esakov a écrit :
> Paul, et. al.,
> 
> Sorry about the second e-mail ten seconds after the first.
> 
>     (I don't want to count bug 6858 in this list, because, for me, it has
>     been tested by a dis-interested -well, in fact, calling the library
>     "dis-interested" is maybe not the best term, but nevermind ;-) )
> 
> 
> I don't see how the library that commissioned the development could be
> disinterested.  
me too, but the term "dis-interested" was used by chris_n, so I used it
too. But I agree everybody involved in a patch has an interest to see it
pushed ;-)

>     I don't want to break the rule. I just request that 3 identified ppl
>     from BibLibre can sign-off in the name of the customer (I like the Proxy
>     term).
> In case this wasn't clear, I have absolutely no objection to this,
> provided the customer sticks a note on the bug so the history is clear.
I think you missed something: don't expect a *french* librarian to
create an account on bugzilla that is in this strange language called
*english* !
Some of them will do, but that's only a small part.

[ Just for information: at the beginning, we asked our first customers
to use bugzilla to declare bugs. 4 bugs in 2 years (rough numbers). Then
we opened mantis, internal to BibLibre. We've almost reached mantis
number 10000 !!! -we also use it internally, for our projects, not only
for Koha support- ]

> Actually, if I have time, I'd like to extend your sandbox code to allow
> libraries to sign off directly from the sandbox.
+1. That's also in my roadmap (but not on the top of my pile)
I also want to submit again the new updatedatabase system. What is
really bad with the current one is that patches with updatedatabase are
almost always broken, they are almost impossible to test with sandboxes.

Note that Stéphane send a mail to all french libraries that came to
Marseille hackfest to point some (5-10) bugs that could be signed-off.
Without too much success in the feedback, but we will continue !

> I'd also like to add
> features to allow the sandbox system to handle testing indexing.
what do you mean by testing indexing ?

> Better
> to have your project managers test other patches than spend time
> inserting "Signed-off-by" lines for libraries that are using the sandbox
> but don't understand git. :)
+1 (and, also, we won't add the librarian as "signed-off-by", because
they could recieve mail -from jenkins for example- that will well...
look strange to them)


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