[SRU discussion] Renaming the 'Regression Potential' section

[Iain Lane]

Hiya,

I often come across SRU bugs from developers that seem to treat the 
Regression Potential section as a place to argue why their upload is not 
risky and should be accepted. Like

  [ Regression Potential ]
  Low. This only changes X Y Z.

I'm not going to bother repeating the arguments for why that's wrong. I 
find the wiki page

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/#SRU_Bug_Template

quite clear on what's needed. But I think the message hasn't managed to 
get through to everybody yet, which to me indicates that we haven't yet 
achieved a universal culture of critically assessing our own work.  
Thinking "what if I'm wrong and this update is bad, where might that 
happen?"

My *straw man* proposal is to rename the section to something like 
'Where problems could occur' or something more explicit than what we 
currently have.

This is obviously partly/mostly a problem that the expectations haven't 
gotten through to people, so while I think we should rename, any change 
will need to be communicated so that people know about it and then 
enforced by the SRU team for a little while.

Thoughts welcome.

Cheers,

-- 
Iain Lane                                  [ iain at orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer                                   [ laney at debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer                                   [ laney at ubuntu.com ]
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