[Koha-devel] RM and QA roles (important!)

[Kyle Hall]

I certainly see no problem with this course of action. It sounds like time
well spent to me!

Kyle

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On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Jared Camins-Esakov <
jcamins at cpbibliography.com> wrote:

> Good morning.
>
> I thought about using the subject "In search of lost time," but I decided
> that was a bad idea given how few people actually manage to get through
> Proust.
>
> I am writing with a discussion question for the community. According to
> the dashboard, at the moment we have 120 bugs with the status "Needs
> signoff" (25% of these are classified as "bugs" instead of "enhancements"
> or "new features") and 94 bugs with the status "Signed off" (50% bugs). 2
> bugs have the status "Passed QA" and are waiting for feedback from their
> authors before I push them.
>
> There are two lessons we can learn from these numbers:
> 1) if everyone currently involved with Koha made a commitment to test two
> patches in January, we could get through the backlog for 3.12
> 2) we have a QA bottleneck.
>
> Please consider lesson 1, but this e-mail is actually about lesson 2. QA
> is an inherently time-consuming process, and the pool for QAers is much
> smaller than that for signing off. I expect that as we approach the
> deadlines for 3.12 the number of bugs awaiting QA will decrease.
> Unfortunately, the amount of time I have to deal with those bugs will not
> increase, even though I am spending somewhat less time than I planned
> dealing with RM duties this month. So, I come to the community with a
> question: what would people think of me using that time to QA bugs (as
> opposed to enhancements/new features) that I was not involved in the
> authorship or signing off of? I would prefer not to do this, but after a
> month and a half as RM it seems to me that this might be in the best
> interest of the community and the best way to release a stable and
> feature-full 3.12. QAing signed off patches would naturally take a much
> lower priority for me than addressing patches that have already passed QA,
> but every patch I QA is a patch that our overworked QA team does not have
> to QA.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Also, on a somewhat-related subject, I will be away from January
> 25-February 4. Keep that in mind if you intend to have any questions that
> only the RM can answer at the end of the month.
>
> Regards,
> Jared Camins-Esakov
>
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