On 09/28/2010 10:49 AM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote: > Hello all! > > Some of us on the QA Team, have been thinking about the current process > with regression tags. One of our goals is to make bug reporting and bug > triage as least complicated as possible. We have been reviewing the bugs > with a regression-* tag and it appears that we need a change to make it > simpler. > > The report [1] gives an overview of the state of regression bugs. We > have found that many regression-potential bugs are filed against a > released version and need to be promoted or demoted and targeted to the > right release(s). At release time we should have evaluated what to > convert from regression-potential to regression-release, but it's hard > to keep track once the release is out and change all tags. > > Most of the time the regression-potential tag is used as a backseat to > regression-release or interpreted as a 'regression to be confirmed'. So > using regression-potential requires extra work: > - mark it as regression-potential > - confirm it is a regression > - nominate > - confirm it is *not* a regression > - remove tag from bug > - when the release is out, verify all 'regression-potential' > - change to 'regression-release' if correct > - nominate > - otherwise, remove tag. > > We feel this could be made easier. > > So, we have studied many ways to make it simpler and are proposing the > following change to the current process: > keep only 3 tags: > - regression-release, > - regression-updates > - regression-proposed > > depending on the pocket - and nominating / targeting to every release > the regression as it is today whatever the release is (development or > released). We think that's all what we need for a nice clean regression > work flow. >
With the feedback we received and the release of 10.10 we are going to implement the changes: - Mark regressions as regression-(release|proposed|update) followed by the version we found it in - promote/demote regression reports tagged as regression-potential We will organize a bug day soon to triage the reports marked as regression-potential. If you have any question/comment/complaint or whatever about this change, don't hesitate to comment. > > > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JeanBaptisteLallement/RegressionReport > > -- Jean-Baptiste irc: jibel -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
