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QA Assistant 0.4.90.4 has been released on berlios. Please see:
https://developer.berlios.de/projects/qa-assistant/
for links to the project files.

The major changes in this development snapshot are:
* Check that required properties have been entered.
* Switch menus and toolbar to gtk.uimanager.
* Use gnome-python-2.6.0's locate_file()
* Checklist function files can now include code that uses uimanager to merge in menu and toolbars to the main window.... read more

Since moving at the end of July, hosting qa-assistant in my own subversion repository has no longer been feasible. So I've migrated the repository over to berlios. I've also taken the opportunity to get rid of the fedora-rpmdevtools tree as there's no code shared between the two projects and move qa-assistant's trunk/branches/tags directories up to the toplevel. For those who are syncing against the subversion repo, the new command for anonymous checkouts is:... read more

This is a new development release of QA Assistant. If you don't have access to the subversion source repository but would like to see where the development is headed, download this version and experiment.

This release adds the infrastructure for CheckList Properties.

This is a new development release of QA Assistant. If you don't have access to the subversion source repository but would like to see where the development is headed, download this version and experiment.

For end-users, the code now has Preferences, a Druid, gpg signing of reviews, and a new checklist xml format.

For developers, the structure of the checklist and review code has been changed to make it more flexible and easier to enhance.

QA Assistant is a Gnome-Python application that assists a reviewer in
performing Quality Assurance. The 0.4.1 is a minor update of the
stable 0.4 branch.

User visible changes:
* Fix a bug in loading saved checklists that caused the custom category to
be displayed as an item.
* Implement the cut, copy, and paste features. This isn't really a bugfix
but it adds significant value with a very small amount of code.... read more

Those of you watching the qa-assistant subversion repository may have noticed it was inaccessible this weekend. I recently updated apache there and it seems it has been consuming excess memory until it gets oom_killed by the linux kernel. I've restarted the http server with a few less modules and a few less threads for now but haven't tracked the root cause down. I'll be working on that tonight when there are less people looking to access the repository.

QA Assistant is a Gnome-Python application that assists a reviewer in
performing Quality Assurance. The 0.4 release marks completeness of the
core features necessary to use the application productively.

Basic Features:
* Written in Python using the pygnome GUI environment.
* Displays a checklist for the reviewer to fill in.
* Supports informational notes to help fill out the checklist.
* Allows writing custom checklists in XML.
* Allows adding custom review items during a review.
* Save and load of in-progress reviews.
* Allows writing your own notes to go along with the output of a review.
* Outputs a text-based review detailing the problems found.
* Currently includes a checklist for reviewing packages awaiting fedora.us QA.

QA Assistant is a Gnome-Python application that assists a reviewer in performing Quality Assurance. It displays a checklist that the reviewer fills in. When the checklist is filled, the application outputs a review to a file for the reviewer to submit. The current version contains a checklist to run quality assurance of SRPMS for inclusion in Fedora Extras.

Version 0.3 concentrates on infrastructure and cosmetic enhancements.... read more

QA Assistant 0.2 has been moved to sourceforge.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qa-assistant/

Look there for future updates to the program.

Subversion repository remains at http://springer.homelinux.com/svn/fedora/qa-assistant/trunk