[Koha-devel] Development/ QA protocol question

[Jonathan Druart]

Hi Cab,
I would not expect a QAer to be paid (by the sponsor of the enh) to review
a patch, I'd call that more corruption / conflict of interest than
sponsoring :)

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 at 11:16 Cab Vinton <bibliwho at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, All --
>
> A small group of small NH libraries has co-sponsored a small
> enhancement to get its feet wet in the Koha development world:
>
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14365
>
> As I understand it, once a patch has been signed off & passed on to
> QA, it can hit a bottleneck as there are limited number of QA Team
> Members.
>
> To make this as positive experience as possible for our informal
> consortium & to increase the chances of similar collaborations in the
> future, it would help if we can move through the development process
> as quickly as possible.
>
> So here's my question --
>
> For sponsored (i.e., funded) projects, would it make sense to include
> funds to pay for the cost of a QA Team Member's time to review a
> patch? I'm thinking the financial commitment would be one way of
> boosting a patch's status in the queue. Hounding the developer is
> another option, of course, but that's unpleasant for both sides :-)
>
> I realize the QA person often, & perhaps preferably, will work for a
> different firm. And there may be other complicating factors I'm not
> aware of.
>
> Grateful for any thoughts from folks on the programming side of things.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cab Vinton, Director
> Plaistow Public Library
> Plaistow, NH
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