[Mageia-dev] QA process for GNOME 3.4.2 for Mageia 2

Tue Jun 12 13:19:55 CEST 2012

Olav Vitters a écrit :
+> For Mageia 2, I'd like to:
+> - get my act together and fix a bunch of bugs (a lot of wrong
+>    suggests/requires, resulting in bugs&crashers)
+> - provide GNOME 3.4.2 as update
+>
+> But this concerns loads and loads of packages.
+>
+> How to best proceed?
+>
+> I saw mentioning that QA is really busy. How can I make this as simple
+> as possible for QA (not for myself)?
+>
+> Should I:
+> #1 :
+>    - first fix the various bugs
+>    - provide each bug as update
+>    then later:
+>    - one massive GNOME 3.4.2 update?
+>
+> #2 :
+>    - do everything in one go (combine 3.4.2 update with the bugfixes)?
+>
+> #3 :
+>    - try and split out all the changes as much as possible (e.g.
+>      evolution would need new evolution-data-server, so must be updated
+>      at the same time).. but ideally go for filing a bug per
+>      update/package?
+>    
+
+QA will probably have their answer, but it seems to me much easier for 
+QA to verify one or two packages at a time, meaning #3 as much as 
+possible, and then #1.
+As far as how you do it for testing yourself (before presenting to QA), 
+you could use whatever approach seems easiest, but even there I would 
+think that #3 as much as possible would be easier.  Anyway, that is how 
+I tend to approach things.
+(#2 seems a potential nightmare, since you're bound to miss things.)
+
+-- 
+André
+
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