[SRU discussion] Renaming the 'Regression Potential' section

[Dan Streetman]

+1 this is incorrectly filled out most of the time, or at least it
feels that way. I'm not sure what exact wording will be clearer,
though.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 5:36 AM Iain Lane <laney at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> 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,
>
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