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+title: Quality Assurance
+description: Policies for QA
+published: true
+date: 2020-03-02T09:47:24.215Z
+tags: qa, development
+---
+
+OpenMandriva Quality Assurance {#openmandriva_quality_assurance}
+------------------------------
+
+Welcome to the OpenMandriva Quality Assurance portal. As our association
+grows, we strive to ensure that we uphold the standards of the
+distribution as a whole.
+
+The goal of the Quality Assurance group is to ensure not only that bugs
+do not make their way to the public through testing and standards, but
+that they may be easily resolved through triaging to their respective
+packages and maintainers.
+
+These are not meant to be perfect statements that dictate our work;
+rather, guiding principles that govern our work. We do not extensively
+test items like individual packages, as those are left up to the
+maintainers (though we do monitor every single update that goes through
+the system); rather, we make sure that **the system as a whole functions
+properly**.
+
+Breakdown
+---------
+
+-   Cooperating with Cooker maintainers to assign bugs to those that may
+    be able to resolve them.
+-   Providing for the testing repository and ensuring that migration to
+    the stable repositories will not cause harm.
+-   Verifying the integrity of standards within the distribution
+    releases.
+-   Coordinating and prioritizing major tasks that maintainers need to
+    be aware of.
+-   Determining, with the help of Cooker maintainers, the release
+    priorities and criteria that must be upheld for any release to
+    happen.
+
+Joining QA {#joining_qa}
+----------
+
+We welcome everyone to help us test OpenMandriva Lx! You can see our
+[Getting Started] page for more information about the tools we have at
+our disposal, and future plans.
+
+Active Members {#active_members}
+--------------
+
+-   Ben Bullard
+-   Colin Close
+-   Chris Tanner
+-   Cristina
+
+*(Is this accurate? Speak up people!)*
+
+Policies
+--------
+
+QA-Team members need a thorough understanding of:
+
+-   [Release Plan and Repositories]
+-   [Repository Policies]
+-   [Current and Future Releases (including Release Plans)]
+
+*(There will be more as we better document our distro but we like to
+keep documentation as simple and light as possible.)*
+
+Tools
+-----
+
+We use a variety of tools to help us with our work. However, none
+compare to the actual task of checking by hand and doing it with actual
+computers, as those are the true use cases. We invite everyone to test
+any OpenMandriva official releases that occur, including development and
+milestone releases.
+
+-   [OpenMandriva Issue Tracker]
+-   [ABF]
+-   [Github]
+-   [Kahinah]
+-   Your Brain.
+-   Your Computer/Computers.
+
+:   Please read: [How to report a bug]
+
+Communication
+-------------
+
+QA Team daily communication takes place on Freenode IRC channel
+\#openmandriva-cooker but remember that this is also where developers
+work so mind your IRC manners. Currently OpenMandriva contributor group
+is small enough that developers and QA work together on IRC. There is
+also a dedicated
+
+  [Getting Started]: QA/Getting_Started "wikilink"
+  [Release Plan and Repositories]: OpenMandriva_Release_Plan_and_Repositories
+    "wikilink"
+  [Repository Policies]: Policies/Repository_Policies "wikilink"
+  [Current and Future Releases (including Release Plans)]: :Category:Releases
+    "wikilink"
+  [OpenMandriva Issue Tracker]: http://issues.openmandriva.org
+  [ABF]: https://abf.openmandriva.org/projects
+  [Github]: https://github.com/OpenMandrivaSoftware
+  [Kahinah]: https://kahinah.rxu.tech/
+  [How to report a bug]: How_to_report_a_bug "wikilink"
+