Re: SRU quality and preventing regressions

2017-04-21 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Steve, On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 04:46:23PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 01:36:26PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > > 1) What package name and version string was tested (saying "the one from > > xenial-proposed" isn't enough for me, as this is where we see things > > going w

Re: SRU quality and preventing regressions

2017-04-21 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 21 April 2017 at 00:46, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Robie, > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 01:36:26PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: >> 1) What package name and version string was tested (saying "the one from >> xenial-proposed" isn't enough for me, as this is where we see things >> going wrong as that v

Re: SRU quality and preventing regressions

2017-04-20 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Robie, On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 01:36:26PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > 1) What package name and version string was tested (saying "the one from > xenial-proposed" isn't enough for me, as this is where we see things > going wrong as that version can change). On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 02:39:07PM +0

Re: SRU quality and preventing regressions

2017-04-20 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le 20/04/2017 à 15:39, Robie Basak a écrit : > So I'll JFDI and edit > everything for clarity, including the wiki Sounds good to me, thanks Robie! Cheers, Sebastien Bacher -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/m

Re: SRU quality and preventing regressions

2017-04-20 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 03:28:39PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > requirement ... and indeed it's not in the wiki. So we have at least one > example where something checked the wiki documentation as a reference, > wiki also is easy enough to edit so there is no real reason to not do it. Thanks.

Re: SRU quality and preventing regressions

2017-04-20 Thread Marco Trevisan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Il 22/03/2017 02:25, Robie Basak ha scritto: > 1) "Regression Potential" > > "Regression Potential" is supposed to describe: > > ...how regressions are most likely to manifest, or may manifest > even if it is unlikely, as a result of this change.

Re: SRU quality and preventing regressions

2017-04-20 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Hey Robie, Thanks for pushing for those process improvements. Le 20/04/2017 à 14:36, Robie Basak a écrit : > Do you think people would look at the wiki Some people are probably going to, and if we have documentation it should reflect our current practices otherwise we better just delete it or re

Re: SRU quality and preventing regressions

2017-04-20 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 06:39:15PM +0800, Marco Trevisan wrote: > Il 22/03/2017 02:25, Robie Basak ha scritto: > > 1) "Regression Potential" > > > > "Regression Potential" is supposed to describe: > > > > ...how regressions are most likely to manifest, or may manifest > > even if it is unlikely,

Re: SRU quality and preventing regressions

2017-04-12 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Mathieu, On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 02:17:29PM -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > > "Regression Potential" is supposed to describe: > > > > ...how regressions are most likely to manifest, or may manifest > > even if it is unlikely, as a result of this change. It is > > assumed tha

Re: SRU quality and preventing regressions

2017-03-28 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
On 2017-03-21 02:25 PM, Robie Basak wrote: [...] > 1) "Regression Potential" > > "Regression Potential" is supposed to describe: > > ...how regressions are most likely to manifest, or may manifest > even if it is unlikely, as a result of this change. It is > assumed that any SRU c

SRU quality and preventing regressions

2017-03-21 Thread Robie Basak
I'm fairly new to ~ubuntu-sru, and I noticed a couple of things that I think we could do better in terms of preventing SRU regressions: 1) Actual consideration of how regressions might manifest in "Regression Potential" paperwork. 2) A description of what was actually tested when marking "verific