On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 5:36 AM Iain Lane <[email protected]> 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. >
I think renaming this section is a good idea. I tend to read the sections as "What is the [ Impact ]?", "What is the [ Test Case ]?", "What is the [ Regression Potential ]?". So a response of "Low. This only changes X Y Z." seems to answer that question even if that's not what's intended. Maybe [ Regression Impact ] or [ Regression Analysis ]? "What is the [ Regression Impact ]?" "What is the [ Regression Analysis ]?" It's a tough one to reduce into 2 words. Corey > 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] ] > -- > Ubuntu-release mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release >
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