Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release (round 2)
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Adam Williamson < adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2017-08-10 at 10:59 +0200, Jan Kurik wrote: > > Thanks Adam for putting this together. I am definitely+1 to extend the > > Blocker bug process with your proposal. > > > > And there is one more topic related to this: how we should deal with > > 0day bugs found at the last moment before release ? Should not we have > > a statement for Accepted0Day and AcceptedPreviousRelease blockers > > saying that such bugs need to be verified and have enough karma before > > relevant Go/No-Go meeting ? My question is base on the experience we > > made during F26 release cycle, when we stopped already running > > mirroring of a release as we realized the 0day fix will not be ready > > at the release day. Having such a statement (and follow it) might save > > the effort especially RelEng is putting into the release activities > > after Go/No-Go meeting. > > I think we could certainly stand to clarify the exact requirements > around Accepted0Day and AcceptedPreviousRelease blockers, yes. AFAIK > all we have for now is this in the blocker process SOP page: > > "Accepted0Day is used for cases where the fix does not need to appear > in the final frozen release, but must be available as an update on > release day. AcceptedPreviousRelease is used for cases where the fix > must appear as an update for one or more stable releases." > > And we're definitely missing some written-down policy about exactly > when the updates must be in exactly what state. I think we can do that > separately from this, though. I've got a lot on my plate ATM so it'd be > great if someone else could do this draft - perhaps you or Kamil (as I > know he's been interested in the question before)? > I tried to discuss this topic in the past wrt AcceptedPreviousRelease, and I didn't receive many responses from relevant people. From what I did receive, I created this description (part of the official SOP, so it should be "in production"): https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process#Tracking_AcceptedPreviousRelease_blocker_bugs It might seem that this only discusses when to close AcceptedPreviousRelease bugs. However, having all blocker bugs closed is a prerequisite to voting "Go". So this is effectively a policy of how to handle AcceptedPreviousRelease blockers state during Go/NoGo. The key sentence describing the required state is: "Only when it is guaranteed that MirrorManager refers only to the push containing the fixed package or newer pushes, we should mark this bug as *CLOSED ERRATA*. " And track-previous-release-blocker.py script implements that (it's quite tedious to check that manually). I guess we could use the same approach (and the same script) even for Accepted0Day. I'm not exactly sure how 'updates' repo is handled before Go, whether some people with older repos can get older metadata not containing the required fix. If it is guaranteed that 'updates' repo on release day is always up-to-day for all users (i.e. it's the very push to that repo, no older metadata references are in repomd.xml), it's even easier to check the state - just make sure the fix is in updates-pending tag and we're good to go. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release (round 2)
On Thu, 2017-08-10 at 10:59 +0200, Jan Kurik wrote: > Thanks Adam for putting this together. I am definitely+1 to extend the > Blocker bug process with your proposal. > > And there is one more topic related to this: how we should deal with > 0day bugs found at the last moment before release ? Should not we have > a statement for Accepted0Day and AcceptedPreviousRelease blockers > saying that such bugs need to be verified and have enough karma before > relevant Go/No-Go meeting ? My question is base on the experience we > made during F26 release cycle, when we stopped already running > mirroring of a release as we realized the 0day fix will not be ready > at the release day. Having such a statement (and follow it) might save > the effort especially RelEng is putting into the release activities > after Go/No-Go meeting. I think we could certainly stand to clarify the exact requirements around Accepted0Day and AcceptedPreviousRelease blockers, yes. AFAIK all we have for now is this in the blocker process SOP page: "Accepted0Day is used for cases where the fix does not need to appear in the final frozen release, but must be available as an update on release day. AcceptedPreviousRelease is used for cases where the fix must appear as an update for one or more stable releases." And we're definitely missing some written-down policy about exactly when the updates must be in exactly what state. I think we can do that separately from this, though. I've got a lot on my plate ATM so it'd be great if someone else could do this draft - perhaps you or Kamil (as I know he's been interested in the question before)? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release (round 2)
Thanks Adam for putting this together. I am definitely+1 to extend the Blocker bug process with your proposal. And there is one more topic related to this: how we should deal with 0day bugs found at the last moment before release ? Should not we have a statement for Accepted0Day and AcceptedPreviousRelease blockers saying that such bugs need to be verified and have enough karma before relevant Go/No-Go meeting ? My question is base on the experience we made during F26 release cycle, when we stopped already running mirroring of a release as we realized the 0day fix will not be ready at the release day. Having such a statement (and follow it) might save the effort especially RelEng is putting into the release activities after Go/No-Go meeting. Regards, Jan On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 3:01 AM, Adam Williamsonwrote: > On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 17:48 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> Hi, folks! > > > > So there was some great feedback on the first version of this proposal; > here's the second draft, with all the suggestions considered and > applied. Note, given the misunderstanding between Kamil and Matt, I > added a little paragraph to specifically clarify that the list of > factors to consider really is just a list of things to *consider*, not > a checklist of criteria that we apply unthinkingly. > > As I explained in the first mail, the proposal is to add a section to > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process , called > "Exceptional cases", as a sub-section of the 'Reviewing blocker bugs' > section. Here is the revised proposal for how the new section should > read: > > ## > > === Exceptional cases === > > Generally speaking, any bug that is agreed to be a violation of the > [[Fedora Release Criteria|release criteria]] should be accepted as a > blocker bug for the next relevant milestone release. > > However, as explained in the [[Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle|Fedora life > cycle page]] and the > [[Fedora_Release_Criteria#Release_Constraints|release criteria]], we > consider Fedora's release process not to be strictly based on time > ''or'' strictly based on quality, but to take both into consideration. > This can mean that, in some exceptional circumstances, we may agree > that a bug constitutes a sufficient violation of the release criteria > that it would ordinarily be accepted as a blocker bug for the next > milestone release, but in fact accept it as a blocker bug for a later > milestone release. > > There are currently two established circumstances in which this may > occur. > > Firstly, it may occur if it is agreed to be very unlikely that the bug > can be fixed within a reasonable time frame for the release to > be made. > > Secondly, it may occur if the bug is discovered and/or proposed as a > blocker very late in the release validation process. Sometimes, a > relatively less important blocker bug (such as a non-vital default > installed application on a release-blocking medium failing to run, for > instance) may only be found very near the end of the release validation > process, too late for it to be reasonably possible to fix it without > delaying the release. Again, we may make the determination that in such > a case it is preferable to go ahead with the release rather than delay > it to fix such a late-discovered bug. > > All such cases must be evaluated and discussed by the usual parties > (usually at a blocker bug review meeting) and all relevant factors must > be taken into account, much like the discussion of a bug that is a > 'conditional' violation of the release criteria. At least the following > will almost always be relevant: > > * The severity and likely prevalence of the bug > * Whether the bug could, or should, have been discovered and/or > proposed as a blocker earlier > * Whether the bug affects the existing stable releases (if it does, > there is generally less benefit to be had by delaying the new release) > * How long the release in question has already been delayed > * Whether delaying the release may give us an opportunity to carry out > other desirable work > * The possible effects of the expected delay (to Fedora itself, and > also to other things influenced by Fedora's schedules, including > downstream projects) > > Note that these factors should be carefully and intelligently > considered on a case-by-case basis. This isn't a checklist; we cannot > just say "oh, that bug existed in the previous release, therefore it's > not a blocker, done". It's just a list of some of the factors we > typically ''consider'' in making this determination. > > It is expected that in almost all 'exceptional' cases, the bug will be > accepted as a blocker either for the very next milestone release, or > for the equivalent milestone for the next release (e.g. if this > 'exceptional' provision is agreed to apply to a bug that otherwise > would have blocked {{FedoraVersion|long|next}} Final, it should be > accepted as a blocker either for
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release (round 2)
On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 17:48 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hi, folks! So there was some great feedback on the first version of this proposal; here's the second draft, with all the suggestions considered and applied. Note, given the misunderstanding between Kamil and Matt, I added a little paragraph to specifically clarify that the list of factors to consider really is just a list of things to *consider*, not a checklist of criteria that we apply unthinkingly. As I explained in the first mail, the proposal is to add a section to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process , called "Exceptional cases", as a sub-section of the 'Reviewing blocker bugs' section. Here is the revised proposal for how the new section should read: ## === Exceptional cases === Generally speaking, any bug that is agreed to be a violation of the [[Fedora Release Criteria|release criteria]] should be accepted as a blocker bug for the next relevant milestone release. However, as explained in the [[Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle|Fedora life cycle page]] and the [[Fedora_Release_Criteria#Release_Constraints|release criteria]], we consider Fedora's release process not to be strictly based on time ''or'' strictly based on quality, but to take both into consideration. This can mean that, in some exceptional circumstances, we may agree that a bug constitutes a sufficient violation of the release criteria that it would ordinarily be accepted as a blocker bug for the next milestone release, but in fact accept it as a blocker bug for a later milestone release. There are currently two established circumstances in which this may occur. Firstly, it may occur if it is agreed to be very unlikely that the bug can be fixed within a reasonable time frame for the release to be made. Secondly, it may occur if the bug is discovered and/or proposed as a blocker very late in the release validation process. Sometimes, a relatively less important blocker bug (such as a non-vital default installed application on a release-blocking medium failing to run, for instance) may only be found very near the end of the release validation process, too late for it to be reasonably possible to fix it without delaying the release. Again, we may make the determination that in such a case it is preferable to go ahead with the release rather than delay it to fix such a late-discovered bug. All such cases must be evaluated and discussed by the usual parties (usually at a blocker bug review meeting) and all relevant factors must be taken into account, much like the discussion of a bug that is a 'conditional' violation of the release criteria. At least the following will almost always be relevant: * The severity and likely prevalence of the bug * Whether the bug could, or should, have been discovered and/or proposed as a blocker earlier * Whether the bug affects the existing stable releases (if it does, there is generally less benefit to be had by delaying the new release) * How long the release in question has already been delayed * Whether delaying the release may give us an opportunity to carry out other desirable work * The possible effects of the expected delay (to Fedora itself, and also to other things influenced by Fedora's schedules, including downstream projects) Note that these factors should be carefully and intelligently considered on a case-by-case basis. This isn't a checklist; we cannot just say "oh, that bug existed in the previous release, therefore it's not a blocker, done". It's just a list of some of the factors we typically ''consider'' in making this determination. It is expected that in almost all 'exceptional' cases, the bug will be accepted as a blocker either for the very next milestone release, or for the equivalent milestone for the next release (e.g. if this 'exceptional' provision is agreed to apply to a bug that otherwise would have blocked {{FedoraVersion|long|next}} Final, it should be accepted as a blocker either for {{FedoraVersion|long|next2}} Alpha or {{FedoraVersion|long|next2}} Final). # -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:03:34AM +0200, Kamil Paral wrote: > However, I think I misread your comment. I believed you're proposing we > reject bugs existing in stable releases as blockers at any point of the > development cycle. But you seem to have suggested we do this only if > they're discovered very shortly before the milestone deadline. Is that > correct? If so, I'm sorry for the confusion. In this case, I don't really Yes, correct. :) -- Matthew MillerFedora Project Leader ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Matthew Millerwrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:02:09AM +0200, Kamil Paral wrote: > > But all of that above is a separate problem. What I'd like to understand > is > > why you think existing bugs should be treated differently from new bugs. > > What is the rationale? And if you want to treat them differently, then > how? > > I think they're *clearly* different when it comes to delaying the > release. If a bug is not currently affecting anyone, delaying stops it > from becoming a user problem. If a bug is already a user problem, > delaying doesn't help those people — and just hurts everyone else who > would benefit from the release. > I'd argue that it does help - the bug gets fixed. The cost is maybe delaying the release (if the bug is accepted as a blocker way ahead of the milestone), or surely delaying the release (if the bug is accepted as a blocker close to the milestone). The alternative is rejecting the blocker right off the bat, which means the bug maybe gets fixed. However, I think I misread your comment. I believed you're proposing we reject bugs existing in stable releases as blockers at any point of the development cycle. But you seem to have suggested we do this only if they're discovered very shortly before the milestone deadline. Is that correct? If so, I'm sorry for the confusion. In this case, I don't really have a problem with this - it's the same approach as for any other bug discovered a few hours before release. The impact is taken into consideration, the difficulty of the fix is taken into consideration, and also whether it already affects stable releases is taken into consideration (why not, sure). If the bug is not critical, it's either pushed to the next milestone, or pushed to the next release. That makes sense to me. If this is the way it's formulated, I don't have a problem with it. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release
On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:02:09AM +0200, Kamil Paral wrote: > But all of that above is a separate problem. What I'd like to understand is > why you think existing bugs should be treated differently from new bugs. > What is the rationale? And if you want to treat them differently, then how? I think they're *clearly* different when it comes to delaying the release. If a bug is not currently affecting anyone, delaying stops it from becoming a user problem. If a bug is already a user problem, delaying doesn't help those people — and just hurts everyone else who would benefit from the release. > Because if we accept new problem A as a blocker, but waive problem B > because it has already existed for some time, even though they have > completely equal impact on users, then without any other means to push for > B resolution during the lifetime of the fedora release, it's very likely > that the problem will not get fixed. Do you see PrioritizedBugs as an > efficient way to help this? Or something else? Prioritized Bugs is one avenue. I'm open to other suggestions. I think in general packagers and maintainers *do* care about the kinds of bugs that are likely to be in this situation. -- Matthew MillerFedora Project Leader ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Matthew Millerwrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:24:16PM +0200, Kamil Paral wrote: > > > Another consideration that might be relevant: is this a *new* issue or > > > something that also affects the current release (either as released or > > > with updates)? If something is a clear-cut blocker criterion violation > > > but isn't a regression *and* we're running late, using further release > > > delay as a forcing function feels like cutting off our nose to spite > > > our face. > > I'm not in favor of this one. Too many important bugs have been waived in > > the past (even those easily fixable) just because "it's not a new bug". I > > don't see why it should matter. Sure, we can use the existing data to > > better estimate the impact (how often people complain about this, bug > > duplicates, etc). But that's just better input data. It should not affect > > the decision process. Or is the thinking process something like "users > are > > already used to suffer from this bug, and perhaps can even work around > it, > > so we don't need to try that hard to fix it"? I don't agree to that. > > We should definitely fix these things. I just think that delaying the > release is a very big hammer -- in a case where maybe a hammer isn't > even called for. Delaying the release means that users are denied all > sorts of other improvements, and developers can't get their stuff in > the hands of users. The release delay itself doesn't _help_ the fix in > any way. We're just using it as a forcing function, and I think that > causes more problems than it actually solves. > And I agree with you, perhaps with one small exception. It depends on your definition of "help", but the delay *is* sometimes effective in a sense that without the delay (and the force function), the fix would not appear fast (in stable updates shortly after release) or even at all. It is not a good way to approach things, but I don't see many other options. Developers' time is limited and blocker bugs do set project priorities. I agree that it should definitely be used very conservatively. But all of that above is a separate problem. What I'd like to understand is why you think existing bugs should be treated differently from new bugs. What is the rationale? And if you want to treat them differently, then how? Because if we accept new problem A as a blocker, but waive problem B because it has already existed for some time, even though they have completely equal impact on users, then without any other means to push for B resolution during the lifetime of the fedora release, it's very likely that the problem will not get fixed. Do you see PrioritizedBugs as an efficient way to help this? Or something else? ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release
Michael Catanzaro wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1405539 IMHO, this isn't even a bug. Everything is working as designed. And won't editing the kernel command line (which can be done interactively in GRUB) to add vconsole.keymap= the desired keymap solve the problem? So where is the data loss? Kevin Kofler ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:24:16PM +0200, Kamil Paral wrote: > > Another consideration that might be relevant: is this a *new* issue or > > something that also affects the current release (either as released or > > with updates)? If something is a clear-cut blocker criterion violation > > but isn't a regression *and* we're running late, using further release > > delay as a forcing function feels like cutting off our nose to spite > > our face. > I'm not in favor of this one. Too many important bugs have been waived in > the past (even those easily fixable) just because "it's not a new bug". I > don't see why it should matter. Sure, we can use the existing data to > better estimate the impact (how often people complain about this, bug > duplicates, etc). But that's just better input data. It should not affect > the decision process. Or is the thinking process something like "users are > already used to suffer from this bug, and perhaps can even work around it, > so we don't need to try that hard to fix it"? I don't agree to that. We should definitely fix these things. I just think that delaying the release is a very big hammer -- in a case where maybe a hammer isn't even called for. Delaying the release means that users are denied all sorts of other improvements, and developers can't get their stuff in the hands of users. The release delay itself doesn't _help_ the fix in any way. We're just using it as a forcing function, and I think that causes more problems than it actually solves. -- Matthew MillerFedora Project Leader ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release
The proposal sounds fine. On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Matthew Millerwrote: > Another consideration that might be relevant: is this a *new* issue or > something that also affects the current release (either as released or > with updates)? If something is a clear-cut blocker criterion violation > but isn't a regression *and* we're running late, using further release > delay as a forcing function feels like cutting off our nose to spite > our face. > I'm not in favor of this one. Too many important bugs have been waived in the past (even those easily fixable) just because "it's not a new bug". I don't see why it should matter. Sure, we can use the existing data to better estimate the impact (how often people complain about this, bug duplicates, etc). But that's just better input data. It should not affect the decision process. Or is the thinking process something like "users are already used to suffer from this bug, and perhaps can even work around it, so we don't need to try that hard to fix it"? I don't agree to that. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release
On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 09:48 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 05:48:09PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > All such cases must be evaluated and discussed by the usual parties > > (usually at a blocker bug review meeting) and all relevant factors must > > be taken into account, much like the discussion of a bug that is a > > 'conditional' violation of the release criteria. At least the following > > will almost always be relevant: > > > > * The severity and likely prevalence of the bug > > * Whether the bug could, or should, have been discovered earlier > > * How long the release in question has already been delayed > > * Whether delaying the release may give us an opportunity to carry out > > other desirable work > > * The possible effects of the expected delay (to Fedora itself, and > > also to other things influenced by Fedora's schedules, including > > downstream projects) > > > For "could, or should, have been discovered earlier", there's also > "raised as a blocker earlier". There were a couple this time around > that actually had bugs filed but we didn't prioritize them until the > last minute. > > Another consideration that might be relevant: is this a *new* issue or > something that also affects the current release (either as released or > with updates)? If something is a clear-cut blocker criterion violation > but isn't a regression *and* we're running late, using further release > delay as a forcing function feels like cutting off our nose to spite > our face. Both good points and in line with current practice, will add to a later draft. Thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 05:48:09PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > All such cases must be evaluated and discussed by the usual parties > (usually at a blocker bug review meeting) and all relevant factors must > be taken into account, much like the discussion of a bug that is a > 'conditional' violation of the release criteria. At least the following > will almost always be relevant: > > * The severity and likely prevalence of the bug > * Whether the bug could, or should, have been discovered earlier > * How long the release in question has already been delayed > * Whether delaying the release may give us an opportunity to carry out > other desirable work > * The possible effects of the expected delay (to Fedora itself, and > also to other things influenced by Fedora's schedules, including > downstream projects) For "could, or should, have been discovered earlier", there's also "raised as a blocker earlier". There were a couple this time around that actually had bugs filed but we didn't prioritize them until the last minute. Another consideration that might be relevant: is this a *new* issue or something that also affects the current release (either as released or with updates)? If something is a clear-cut blocker criterion violation but isn't a regression *and* we're running late, using further release delay as a forcing function feels like cutting off our nose to spite our face. -- Matthew MillerFedora Project Leader ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Kevin Koflerwrote: A blocker ought to be a blocker, no matter when it is discovered and how long it takes to fix. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1405539 It violates a release criterion (IMO), but it's been broken forever and fixing it would be a complex engineering project, far beyond the scope of our usual blocker issues. Do we really want to block Fedora for months on such an issue? F26 would probably be delayed until next year if that was our policy. Michael ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release
On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 02:01 +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > Firstly, it may occur if it is agreed to be very unlikely that the bug > > can possibly be fixed within a reasonable time frame for the release to > > be made. For instance, fixing the bug may be a task of such technical > > complexity that it cannot possibly be achieved for several weeks or > > months, and it may be held that such a delay would be too disruptive to > > Fedora's development to be justified. > > "cannot possibly" — that's pretty strong words. I sure almost anything > could be achieved in several months, if enough people banded up to do it. > So I'd just keep the first sentence, without "possibly", and drop the > rest of the paragraph. That'd cut down on the wordiness too. Good point, thanks. > > It is expected that in almost 'exceptional' cases, the bug will be > > accepted as a blocker either for the very next milestone release, or > > for the equivalent milestone for the next release (e.g. if this > > 'exceptional' provision is agreed to apply to a bug that otherwise > > would have blocked {{FedoraVersion|long|next}} Final, it should be > > accepted as a blocker either for {{FedoraVersion|long|next2}} Alpha or > > {{FedoraVersion|long|next2}} Final). > > "almost" seems misplaced, or maybe you meant "almost all". Indeed, you're exactly correct. Thank you. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release
On Tue, 2017-07-18 at 03:37 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > IMHO, this is a slippery slope eroding the quality of Fedora just because > some people are not willing to wait a week longer for their "fix". The > argument that this steals time from the next cycle is also invalid, because > the obvious answer there is: "Don't Do That Then" – the schedule for the > next release needs to start from the ACTUAL release date of the current > release, NOT the planned release. > > There is at least one user a day asking on #fedora-kde about the Discover > issue that you decided to ignore in violation of the process, This kind of language just isn't helpful. No-one chose to 'ignore' anything 'in violation' of anything. It clearly wasn't 'ignored', since we had about an hour of debate over it. And as ultimately the decision as to whether a bug is a blocker is the preserve of the relevant groups - as the process states - nothing is 'violated' by that decision. > and no doubt > there are many more who don't bother asking and just wipe Fedora and install > Kubuntu or Neon instead. The bug would have been trivial to fix. > > A blocker ought to be a blocker, no matter when it is discovered and how > long it takes to fix. I don't think that re-arguing the concept is a useful thing to do in this thread. All the relevant groups were represented at the meeting and agreed that this *should* be covered in the process documentation. The point of this thread is to agree on the details of the explanation, not to argue over whether this should even be a thing at all. Of course if it somehow becomes evident there's a large number of relevant people who think this was a terrible idea, we can re-consider, but that doesn't seem terribly likely. As the text notes, we have for a *long time* stated that Fedora's release process is not entirely time-based or entirely quality-based, so it's not feasible to hold that we absolutely must hold the release for any criteria violation, no matter how long it might take to fix. That would be too close to an entirely quality-based process. As a side point, I'll note that it is *also* a settled point that desktop teams have a responsibility to help test their own stuff. We produce KDE lives nightly throughout the release cycle. We (QA) create validation events, with all the announcement emails and result tables and associated paraphernalia, at least every two weeks during the release cycle. AFAICS, no-one from the KDE team actually contributed any tests of KDE in the F26 cycle *at all*. As seems to be the trend lately, we have to point out once more that Fedora is supposed to be a *collaborative* project. Declaring that X Must Be Done but not actually being willing to contribute to doing X at all isn't very sustainable for a project like Fedora. We really need the groups responsible for release-blocking parts of the distribution to *help test them*. If KDE is going to continue shipping dozens and dozens and dozens of things by default (including, last I checked, three different things that deal somehow with software installation), it would be nice for the KDE team to help check they all actually *work*. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 05:48:09PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > === Exceptional cases === > > Generally speaking, any bug that is agreed to be a violation of the > [[Fedora Release Criteria|release criteria]] should be accepted as a > blocker bug for the next relevant milestone release. > > However, as explained in the [[Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle|Fedora life > cycle page]] and the > [[Fedora_Release_Criteria#Release_Constraints|release criteria]], we > consider Fedora's release process not to be strictly based on time > ''or'' strictly based on quality, but to take both into consideration. > This can mean that, in some exceptional circumstances, we may agree > that a bug constitutes a sufficient violation of the release criteria > that it would ordinarily be accepted as a blocker bug for the next > milestone release, but in fact accept it as a blocker bug for a later > milestone release. +1 > There are currently two established circumstances in which this may > occur. > > Firstly, it may occur if it is agreed to be very unlikely that the bug > can possibly be fixed within a reasonable time frame for the release to > be made. For instance, fixing the bug may be a task of such technical > complexity that it cannot possibly be achieved for several weeks or > months, and it may be held that such a delay would be too disruptive to > Fedora's development to be justified. "cannot possibly" — that's pretty strong words. I sure almost anything could be achieved in several months, if enough people banded up to do it. So I'd just keep the first sentence, without "possibly", and drop the rest of the paragraph. That'd cut down on the wordiness too. > Secondly, it may occur if the bug is discovered very late in the > release validation process. Sometimes, a relatively less important > blocker bug (such as a non-vital default installed application on a > release-blocking medium failing to run, for instance) may only be found > very near the end of the release validation process, too late for it to > be reasonably possible to fix it without delaying the release. Again, > we may make the determination that in such a case it is preferable to > go ahead with the release rather than delay it to fix such a late- > discovered bug. > All such cases must be evaluated and discussed by the usual parties > (usually at a blocker bug review meeting) and all relevant factors must > be taken into account, much like the discussion of a bug that is a > 'conditional' violation of the release criteria. At least the following > will almost always be relevant: > > * The severity and likely prevalence of the bug > * Whether the bug could, or should, have been discovered earlier > * How long the release in question has already been delayed > * Whether delaying the release may give us an opportunity to carry out > other desirable work > * The possible effects of the expected delay (to Fedora itself, and > also to other things influenced by Fedora's schedules, including > downstream projects) > > It is expected that in almost 'exceptional' cases, the bug will be > accepted as a blocker either for the very next milestone release, or > for the equivalent milestone for the next release (e.g. if this > 'exceptional' provision is agreed to apply to a bug that otherwise > would have blocked {{FedoraVersion|long|next}} Final, it should be > accepted as a blocker either for {{FedoraVersion|long|next2}} Alpha or > {{FedoraVersion|long|next2}} Final). "almost" seems misplaced, or maybe you meant "almost all". Zbyszek ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: Blocker bug process proposal: waiving late-discovered blockers to next release
Adam Williamson wrote: > So, during the blocker review process in the last few cycles, we have > several times come up against the unfortunate situation that a bug that > in the usual course of events would block a release is discovered > extremely late - say the day before the go/no-go meeting - and at least > some folks have argued that it's sometimes appropriate to not block the > release in this case. > > This position has gained quite a bit of acceptance, and we agreed at > the F26 Final go/no-go meeting to draft up some formal policy for this > so we can make such decisions consistently and not in an ad hoc way > that might lead to it becoming a loophole that gets abused. IMHO, this is a slippery slope eroding the quality of Fedora just because some people are not willing to wait a week longer for their "fix". The argument that this steals time from the next cycle is also invalid, because the obvious answer there is: "Don't Do That Then" – the schedule for the next release needs to start from the ACTUAL release date of the current release, NOT the planned release. There is at least one user a day asking on #fedora-kde about the Discover issue that you decided to ignore in violation of the process, and no doubt there are many more who don't bother asking and just wipe Fedora and install Kubuntu or Neon instead. The bug would have been trivial to fix. A blocker ought to be a blocker, no matter when it is discovered and how long it takes to fix. Kevin Kofler ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org