Hey there, I hit another of those bugs where the well intended controbutor spent time writing a 'low <rational of why it was tested upstream and downstream>', any chance to see the discussion leading to a conclusion.
I was thinking maybe something around the line of 'Regression Testing Focus' it's a bit longer but you can't reply 'low' to it... Cheers, Sebastien Bacher Le 30/07/2020 à 13:40, Dan Streetman a écrit : > +1 this is incorrectly filled out most of the time, or at least it > feels that way. I'm not sure what exact wording will be clearer, > though. > > 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. >> >> 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 -- Ubuntu-release mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
