'Twas brillig, and Samuel Verschelde at 08/09/11 11:59 did gyre and gimble: > (QA Team and Triage team in CC, but please answer only to > [email protected]) > > I was asked to define a process for backports validation, so here is a > proposal. We can discuss it a few days and then I'll add the result to the > backports policy page. > > Process for backports : > > Triage: > - identify backport requests > - add "Backport Request: " in the bug report summary > - add the "backport" keyword > - assign to maintainer > > The maintainer can refuse to do the backport : > - doesn't want to maintain it => assign the bug report back to > [email protected] so that another packager can step in > - has a good reason for not providing this backport (policy, possible > breakage...) => close as wontfix > > Packager: > - create bug report if not done already > - submit to {core,nonfree,tainted}/backports_testing
Is this straight from the cauldron tree in subversion? > - find a tester : original bug reporter when there is one, yourself if > there's > none, or ask in forums/irc/MLs... > - once tested by at least one person (it must be said explicitly in the bug > report), hand it to QA : > - make sure the bug report summary starts with "Backport Request: " or > "Backport Candidate: " > - add the "backport" keyword if missing > - assign to [email protected] > - list the source RPMs if there are several > - be ready to fix bugs and answer QA team questions > > QA: > - test backports the same way that we test updates. But don't forget that > updates have a higher priority than that of backports. > - move the packages from backports_testing to backports Just from a man power perspective this, could be a lot of work for QA (even at lower priority) but I cannot see a way to improve this without sacrificing quality control! Col -- Colin Guthrie mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
