On 06/30/2010 06:34 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 6/30/10 9:31 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 06/30/2010 06:18 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >>> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 11:35 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> >>>> The proposed policy might be workable if we had a surplus of >>>> proventester manpower available, but we obviously have not got that. >> And you think re-allocating the already scarce manpower to this process >> will help? >> I am having very strong doubts on this. >> >> > One of the big reasons the manpower was "scarce" is we did not have a > proper system to locate, train, and promote new people into this > "manpower". The QA team has made great strides into fixing that and we > do now have a process in place, and a good stream of incoming people > willing to donate some time and effort to help the project. My perception is: "marketing" has directed into a direction which drains away man-power into an uncertain process whose only immediate effect is bureaucracy, whose long term outcome is uncertain and who foundations are very questionable, to say the least. > We are not > just "hoping" that people will show up and test, we're actively building > a community of people who will be dedicated to testing these things. We will see - My opinon and expectation are very different from yours. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel