Re: New to QA
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:14:00PM -0600, Zach JL wrote: > I would like to contribute to debian in some way, but not sure where to > start. Where can I find a list of things needing done, bugs need fixed and > work that I, as a non-programmer, can do to help the debian project? Do I > need to register somewhere? Thank you. Hi Zach, sorry for the delay, actually no, you don't need to register anywhere, we use to say that in Debian "everybody is QA" and it happens to be true. The main coordination places are this list and the #debian-qa channel on irc.debian.org. For some tasks it does help to be a DD (which I don't know if it is your case or not), but there are *a lot* of other things that can be done, and which are really helpful, that do not even require that. The starting point I suggest you is http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/ , which has a nice introduction about Debian QA, and also a list of things that need to be worked on. Welcome on board! -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is so ... simplistic -- Manoj \/ right keys at the right time signature.asc Description: Digital signature
[udd] injecting debtags information
[ Following a suggestion by Lucas, we are moving to the debian-qa mailing list the discussions about UDD, the Ultimate Debian Database; shout if you object to this choice. ] Any objection about injecting debtags information into UDD? It will be really helpful for making queries able to filter packages on the tags basis. Beside that, the obvious question is of course how to do that, AFAIK currently tags are not tied specifically to any particular version or suite of (binary) packages, so it would be enough to use as a key a table indexed by (binary) package names. That said, we have of course the choice between just having one tuple per package, with a field containing all associated tags (e.g., comma-separated), and having one tuple for each pair . I tend to prefer the latter, as we have already expressed relational algebra the different tags for each package, without needing to resort to sub-string machinery. To the debtags people: what would be a daily updated source of information we can download to have up to date debtags data? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is so ... simplistic -- Manoj \/ right keys at the right time signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [udd] injecting debtags information
On 17/09/08 at 20:39 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > That said, we have of course the choice between just having one tuple > per package, with a field containing all associated tags (e.g., > comma-separated), and having one tuple for each pair . > > I tend to prefer the latter, as we have already expressed relational > algebra the different tags for each package, without needing to resort > to sub-string machinery. me too. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | signature.asc Description: Digital signature
