On Apr 5, 2005 11:29 AM, Mike Bird <mgb-fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hard work may one day make Extras a useful resource but right now - with > no coordination, delayed builds and no QA - Extras packages are fourth > class citizens which only a marketing suit would claim to be part of > Fedora. I take it from this post you are volunteering to be a part of the Extras QA team? Great! I look forward to seeing your contributions to package review discussions being held in the fedora-extras-list every day and to you reading your bug reports about Extras packages that make it through the current process that are malformed. I think its a stretch to claim there is no coordination, especially if you aren't actively involved in the Extras specific discussions going on. Among people actively participating in the Extras process, opinions differ as how QA is to be handled. I personally think ideally there should be more QA than there is right now. But I also realize that there are tradeoffs.. without a significant committment of manhours to the task of QA, the overall process can be stagnated if procedural QA hurtles are put in place that are out of proportion to the available community manpower for the task of QA. In the final analysis the importance of package QA in the Extras process is going to be directly related to the amount of time people are willing to devote to the task over the long haul. If you personally want to see QA be a higher importance.. start getting invovled in the Extras process now by participating in the fedora-extras-list package review discussions. -jef"un-coordinated"spaleta