[Koha-devel] Some thoughts from QA team

[Mason James]

On 2012-10-24, at 10:52 PM, Chris Cormack wrote:

> On 24 October 2012 22:47, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com> wrote:
>> Hi koha-devel,
>> 
>> The 3.10 and 3.12 QA teams ( Mason, Jonathan, Marcel & me, with the
>> freshly elected Travis, Katrin -and Jared as RM-) have had a discussion
>> about QA process and would like to propose the 2 following things:
>> 
>> * Create a QA specific mailing list (qa at lists.koha-community.org ?)
>> This list would be used for QA related discussions. We had some private
>> discussions in the last months (mostly about koha-qa.pl tool = should we
>> add this, remove that,...), and think it's better to have a public
>> mailing list. [ One thing that worried us is "should we let anyone
>> subscribe to the list or moderate list subscriptions to avoid non-QA
>> threads". Not a big deal, but if you've an opinion... ]
>> 
> Why can't we use the koha-devel list, and/or the bugs themselves ..
> what type of mails would be on the qa list that wouldn't be fine on
> the koha-devel list?
> And if they are patch specific then on the bug itself makes more sense.
> 


> I'd definitely like to see any qa discussions public, but I don't see
> the need for a new list .. am I missing something?


yes Chris, you are missing a lot of boring chatter :)


if people are OK with having the QA-team discuss their stuff on the koha-devel list, then i am happy
(we could prefix the QA email's subject with 'QA: ', so people can ignore them easily, if they want too)


are people OK with this?


Mason