On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 23:59 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
On 03/21/2012 04:56 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hey, folks.
>
> So here's some funny Fedora archaeology: QA is not actually officially a
> Fedora sub-project. I didn't know this (and didn't particularly care!),
> and neither did I know that, aeons ago (well, last year), jlaska kicked
> off an attempt to make us one. As sub-project requests are filed as
> Board trac tickets, I can't link to it because of the Board's silly
> policy of making trac tickets private, so only they and jlaska can see
> it. But I'm assured it exists. If anyone is super-interested in this
> exciting, nay thrilling process, it's documented at
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DefiningProjects#Fedora_Projects .
>
> Anyway, Robyn tells me that with its customary, legendary efficiency and
> speed, the Board has come to a swift decision a mere eight months later
> that QA should be accepted as a sub-project.
I'm a bit amazed that the board is going to approve some proposal that
has not been presented to the QA community ( and I'm equally amazed that
James did not present that to the QA community )
I for one would like to know exactly the details and the content of that
ticket and an justification from the board on why it's approving an
proposal that affects the whole QA community without the QA community
actually knowing anything about it.
As far as I understand it, it really doesn't have any particular
material impact on us. It seems to have just been one of those things
where someone looked at the list of projects -
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Projects - and wondered why the heck QA
wasn't on there. As far as I can figure out from the wiki, Official
Project Status doesn't actually confer any particular responsibilities
or rights or obligations or anything on us. I can't see where it's going
to have any kind of concrete impact on what we do, at all. It really
just seems to be a 'duh, of COURSE QA should be on that list' thing.
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Adam Williamson
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