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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Title:</th><td class="field-body">QA Team's Role and Purpose</td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Author:</th><td class="field-body">Mark Loeser <halcy0n at gentoo.org>,</td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Created:</th><td class="field-body">24 April 2006</td>
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<tr class="field"><th class="field-name">Post-History:</th><td class="field-body">24-Apr-2006, 5-Sep-2006, 8-Jun-2011</td>
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<p class="topic-title first">Contents</p>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#abstract" id="id2">Abstract</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#motivation" id="id3">Motivation</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#specification" id="id4">Specification</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#backwards-compatibility" id="id5">Backwards Compatibility</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#copyright" id="id6">Copyright</a></li>
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<div class="section" id="abstract">
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id2">Abstract</a></h1>
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<p>This GLEP outlines the abilities and purpose of the Quality Assurance team
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for Gentoo.</p>
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<div class="section" id="motivation">
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3">Motivation</a></h1>
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<p>For years now developers have been saying how we need an empowered QA team to
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handle problems concerning the tree. This GLEP provides the structure for
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such a team and specifies the roles the team would fulfill.</p>
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<div class="section" id="specification">
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4">Specification</a></h1>
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<p>The QA team should be given certain abilities to look out for the best
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interests of all developers, as well as our users. The QA team should also
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work to ensure developers have the information they need, and that packages
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are maintained. The QA team is also tasked with the authority to ensure
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tree policies are respected.</p>
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<li>The QA team's purpose is to provide cross-team assistance in keeping the
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tree in a good state. This is done primarily by finding and pointing out
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issues to maintainers and, where necessary, taking direct action.</li>
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<li>The QA team is directed by a lead, chosen yearly by private or
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public election among the members of the team. The QA team lead can
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choose one member as a deputy. The deputy has all of his powers directly
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delegated from the QA team lead and thus his actions and decisions should
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be considered equal to those of the QA team lead. The deputy is directly
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responsible only to the QA team lead.</li>
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<li>The QA team lead must approve developers who would like to join the project. The
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applicant must demonstrate a thorough understanding of the duties he would like
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to perform. By accepting the applicant the QA team lead will accept
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the responsibility to direct them as part of the team and will be held
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responsible for any action the team member takes on behalf of the QA team.</li>
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<li>In case of emergency, or if package maintainers refuse to cooperate,
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the QA team may take action themselves to fix the problem. The QA team
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does not want to override the maintainer's wishes by default, but only
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wish to do so when the team finds it is in the best interest of users and
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fellow developers to have the issue addressed as soon as possible.</li>
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<li>The QA team may also offer to fix obvious typos and similar minor issues,
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and silence from the package maintainers can be taken as agreement in such
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situations. Coding style issues fall under this category, and while they
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are not severe, they can make automated checks of the tree more difficult.</li>
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<li>There will be cases when our tools are incapable of handling a certain
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situation and policy must be broken in order to get something working
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completely. This will hopefully not occur very often but each time it
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does occur, the QA team and the maintainer will come to some agreement on
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an interim solution and it is expected that a bug will be opened with the
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appropriate team to work towards a correct solution.</li>
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<li>In the case of disagreement among QA members the majority of established
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QA members must agree with the action. Some examples of disagreements are:
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whether the percieved problem violates the policy or whether the solution
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makes the situation worse.</li>
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<li>In the event that a developer still insists that a package does not break
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QA standards, an appeal can be made at the next council meeting. The package
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should be dealt with per QA's request until such a time that a decision is
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made by the council.</li>
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<li>Just because a particular QA violation has yet to cause an issue does not
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change the fact that it is still a QA violation.</li>
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<li>If a particular developer persistently causes breakage, the QA team
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may request that devrel re-evaluates that developer's commit rights.
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Evidence of past breakages will be presented with this request to devrel.</li>
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<li>The QA team will maintain a list of current "QA Standards" with explanations
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as to why they are problems, and how to fix the problem. The list is not
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meant by any means to be a comprehensive document, but rather a dynamic
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document that will be updated as new problems are discovered. The QA team
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will also do their best to ensure all developer tools are in line with the
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current QA standards.</li>
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<li>The QA team will work with Recruiters to keep related documentation and
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quizzes up to date, so that up and coming developers will have access to all
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of the necessary information to avoid past problems.</li>
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<li>QA will take an active role in cleaning up and removing from the tree
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unmaintained packages as they are found to be broken. It is also
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encouraged of members of the QA team to assist in mentoring new developers
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that wish to take over unmaintained packages/herds.</li>
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5">Backwards Compatibility</a></h1>
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<p>Not a problem for this GLEP.</p>
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6">Copyright</a></h1>
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<p>This document has been placed in the public domain.</p>
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