proposed-migration, "SMOOTH_UPDATES", and NBS reports

[Julian Andres Klode]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 05:29:19PM +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Hey again,
> 
> Le 08/12/2021 à 00:14, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> > I expect that with this option set, we will find much fewer problems with
> > entanglement of library transitions, and in turn I hope developers will be
> > less frustrated by migration delays.
> Right, I expect that to be the case. It's going to come at the cost of
> reducing the pressure for the team to complete the transitions since that's
> not going to get in the way of having their updates to land.
> My personal feeling is that it's going to turn out to be an issue for the
> archive and the release teams and that we aren't going to find proper
> staffing to deal with the problems, but hopefully I'm wrong there, we will
> see.

I think we should

- disable smoothing at feature freeze
- work on getting NBS to 0 by beta freeze

If it doesn't work, maybe we need to revert to not autosmoothing
and force or add a smooth hint.
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