[Koha-devel] Proposal to join the QA team for packaging related bugs

[Mirko Tietgen]

Hello everyone,

part of the idea of nightly packages is to constantly update the
Debian related files that deal with depenencies. I would like to
find and solve possible dependency problems early and minimize the
delay between Koha release and related package release.

The process to build nightlies is getting more stable now. I have
tested automatic patches to the debian/control file -- that is the
file that contains the package dependencies -- and I think it will
be a helpful tool.

I have created bugs labelled "Automatic debian/control updates" for
master, stable and unstable, and added Kyle, Frederic and Julian
respectively.

https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17084
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17108
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17111

The bugs get automatic updates after each nightly build process, as
long as they lead to changes in debian/control. To avoid spamming
the bugs I have changed that now to "send patch only if bug status
is 'Assigned'" (untested :P)

There is not really anything to test here, besides a manual sanity
check. But it will consume resources to go through the QA process
every single time there is a change. For that reason I propose I
join the QA team for packaging matters, do a signoff on the
automatic patches (as long as they are ok), label them "Passed QA"
and send them over to Kyle, Frederic and Julian so they can be
pushed early.

Any objections? Comments?

Cheers,

Mirko


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Mirko Tietgen
mirko at abunchofthings.net
http://koha.abunchofthings.net
http://meinkoha.de


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