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