Changes to the SRU processes?

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:53:03PM +0200, 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

No, these are not currently automatically tagged, we rely on the
reporter to manually tag them regression-proposed or regression-updates.
However, provided the bug was reported by apport we could look and see
what pocket the package came from either during the bug reporting
process or afterwards and add a tag to the bug report.  Wherever it
happens this is something I'd be happy to work on.

Then the SRU team could subscribe to bugs with this tag and maintainers
could filter their bug mail for this tag or search for them in
Launchpad.

--
Brian Murray
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