Changes to the SRU processes?

[Brian Murray]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 02:22:36PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le 31/07/2012 21:36, Brian Murray a écrit :
> 
> >Oh and if one of the SRU bugs is already tagged
> >verification-failed it'll just add a comment to that bug. Barring
> >any objections I'll set this up this week. --
> 
> Hey Brian,
> 
> Thanks for working on that. I'm not sure I agree with that though,
> quite some people run proposed and do notice issues in softwares,
> while doing SRU testing, which are not regressions,

I don't think there is much evidence to support this issue given the
test reports I've ran.

> I feel like it will create confusion and makes harder to know which
> bugs have a confirmed regression and those which just got tagged by
> side effect of bug filing.

To be clear this is what I expect the workflow to look like:

bot tags an SRU verification bug, Bug A, verification failed and adds a
    comment indicating that Bug B is from someone running -proposed.

SRU team member or somebody interested in the package sees that Bug A is
    verification-failed and investigates Bug B.  If Bug B is not a
    regression caused by the changes in the -proposed package and is a
    regular bug it will be tagged bot-stop-nagging.  Bug A will have its
    tagged changed to verification-needed.

> What about adding a new tag verification-potential-regression for
> those to indicate that the uploader should check those new tickets
> before the packages got copied to -updates? I don't like to add yet
> another tag but that one should be only added by a bot and would
> avoid creating confusion over what verification-failed

As a member of the SRU team I'd like to be involved in the process of
watching for regressions in packages from -proposed and having these
indicated in the report and process we use would make that easy.  Using
another tag like verification-potential-regression would require one
more search for people to perform.  Additionally, I think this tag is
one for which the bug count would continue to grow.

--
Brian Murray
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