[SRU discussion] Renaming the 'Regression Potential' section

[Sebastien Bacher]

Hey there,

I hit another of those bugs where the well intended controbutor spent
time writing a 'low <rational of why it was tested upstream and
downstream>', any chance to see the discussion leading to a conclusion.

I was thinking maybe something around the line of
'Regression Testing Focus'
it's a bit longer but you can't reply 'low' to it...

Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher

Le 30/07/2020 à 13:40, Dan Streetman a écrit :
> +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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