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+ <B>David W. Hodgins</B>
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+ <I>Fri Jul 8 10:22:55 CEST 2011</I>
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+<PRE>On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:22:38 -0400, Ahmad Samir &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
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+&gt;<i> IMHO, for big packages like libreoffice, we'll have to rely on the
+</I>&gt;<i> free-cost-daily-usage QA, i.e. pushing it to Cauldron users for
+</I>&gt;<i> 1-2month, and waiting till the dust settles before pushing to older
+</I>&gt;<i> stable releases.
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+I don't agree with putting a minimum time limit on testing.
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+Obviously, the qa team cannot test all software in an exhaustive
+manner.
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+To me. as a member of the qa team, it's a matter of using common
+sense, on a case by case basis.
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+Is the hardware widely available? If yes, wait for someone with
+that hardware test it. If not, confirm it installs on both
+platforms without conflicts, and at least one person with the
+hardware tests it, such as with the belgium card reader.
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+In the case of security updates with no poc, just test that the
+package installs cleanly on both platforms, and basic functionality
+works, such as the iptables update.
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+In the case of something like libreoffice, I would test that it
+installs cleanly, and each major function appears to work. I would
+not be testing to see if every possible formula in a spreadsheet
+works, just the basics.
+
+If every possible test had to be run, nothing would ever be updated.
+Trying to run every possible test in an automated manner would make
+the Mageia project look tiny by comparison.
+
+Regards, Dave Hodgins
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