Changes to the SRU processes?

[Brian Murray]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 03:59:28PM -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> 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)?

That makes more sense than just tagging some random bug as I'd
suggested.  I'd also add a comment to the verification-failed bug
linking to the bug using the -proposed package.  Given this idea a bot
sounds like a better idea than modifying aport.

--
Brian Murray
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