On 02/16/2011 03:20 PM, Morten P.D. Stevens wrote:
Karanbir, this is not quite right. And you know it. I offered my help for testing. (qa process)
A very large part - if not all - of the qa effort is branding and role specific within centos. Most of the other things only contribute towards documentation - not the release process itself. Of course there are exceptions ( like the installer... ) but not many
You have offered me to help with packages that need upstream branding removed. This is very difficult to realize when the primary mailing list (centos-qa) is completely closed to outsiders.
This is a bit of a confused state of things - and I am not sure what can we done about clearing out the situation that the -qa list does not have any C6 specific / testing / branding anything content on there.
One idea is to rename the QA team into what it really is - the Release team, and have a whitelist based package tree available to a larger number of people ( but still not public - we cant do public builds, and thats already been covered extensively )
Many people (including me) would like to CentOS help if the development process would be more open.
You will need to speak to Red Hat about that; Because the centos development community all have @redhat.com email address :) So the question here really is : how best can we communicate that to a wider audience and have that idea persist ?
- KB