Changes to the SRU processes?

[Stéphane Graber]

On 07/17/2012 03:53 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> We got some recent SRU issues where regressions were not detected before
> having the upload copied to -updated. Those issues were discussed with
> the people who maintain the packages and it an obvious flaw in both
> cases is that the maintainers are just too busy to keep up with incoming
> bugs and didn't spot the new reports due to that.
> 
> Since that's likely to happen again I would like to discuss some
> improvements to the current process:
> 
> - while I don't like to add extra steps in the way of SRU updates,
> should we discuss having a "check bugs reported since the SRU was
> uploaded for any potential regression" on the list of steps before
> copying a SRU to -updates?
> 
> Not sure that should be the SRU team responsability, maybe the uploader
> should do that when the upload is flagged "good to go"?
> 
> That's probably not needed for every upload so what about using a new
> tag for the updates that seem worth that extra check before being copied?
> 
> - some people asked what we could do to improve the chances that
> reported regressions are flagged as such. Do we currently tag the bugs
> concerning -proposed or -updates versions in some way? If not, could we
> do that? It would narrow the list of bugs to check out for potential
> regressions
> 
> - other ideas of what we could improve...?
> 
> -- 
> Sebastien Bacher

Can't we have a bot spotting new bugs matching the version in -proposed
and marking verification-failed the master bug in such case (or any bug
linked to the SRU, so that it's blocked)?

The few cases where we missed bugs were cases where the reporter wasn't
aware of the SRU process and didn't comment in a bug actually linked to
the SRU (which would have been picked up by the SRU team and marked
verification-failed).

-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com


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