Hello Clint, Clint Byrum [2012-05-06 12:12 -0700]: > Excerpts from Martin Pitt's message of Sat May 05 12:52:34 -0700 2012: > > The current SRU has been in -proposed for 5 months now, without any > > feedback about formal testing, and has been supeseded by a security > > update months ago as well. So based on this I think we'll need a few > > more trial runs before I agree to a general microrelease exception. > > > > I'm not so sure I agree that there has been no feedback.
There are certainly verified bugs, but I meant feedback in the sense of "we ran these test suites and these regression tests with the proposed version and they all succeeded". > The nova SRU fixed *38* bugs. Our usual SRU verification process is > mostly cumbersome red tape compared to the review process that the stable > updates team for OpenStack used to get these fixes in. 8 of the 38 bugs > were verified. Exactly, MREs with new upstream versions are usually like that: We don't verify that every single of many bugs is actually fixed, but we have a plan for regression tests with good coverage (which is the more important part for these updates). > The whole point of these types of exceptions is that we get more fixes > shipped to users when an upstream project takes sufficient steps to > reduce regression potential. I agree. But I haven't seen any regression testing, so I was wondering what happened behind the scenes there. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
