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, -- Iain Lane [ [email protected] ] Debian Developer [ [email protected] ] Ubuntu Developer [ [email protected] ]
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