On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:58:30 GMT, SendaoYan <s...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Thanks for the approved.
>
>> @sendaoYan As a best practice, it would be useful to first understand why 
>> the test is not working before putting it on the ProblemList. Depending on 
>> the severity of the problem that is not always possible, but it should be 
>> the first step in an evaluation in my opinion. Minimally, the referenced 
>> issue should have an Assignee so that it is assured someone will look into 
>> it. Once an issue is on the ProblemList, it unfortunately doesn't address 
>> the underlying issue, and may not get the same attention if some evaluation 
>> had been done beforehand. Another suggestion is to ask about it on the 
>> OpenJDK security-dev alias, where there are Security Group members who have 
>> more experience with these tests and can decide what the best course of 
>> action is.
>> 
>> The infra tests are not part of any of our CI tiers, so generally there is 
>> more time to investigate and figure out what the issue is in tests like this 
>> before putting it on the Problem List. Often the certificate tests fail 
>> because of an issue on the CA side, which sometimes can be fixed quickly 
>> after contacting the CA.
>> 
>> In summary, please hold off on adding this test to the ProblemList until we 
>> have some time to evaluate the test failure. Thank you.
> 
> Got it. Thank you for your detailed explanation.
> If this issue fails cause by CA side or some other reason, and the the 
> failure can fixed quickly, I think we should close these related PRs.

> @sendaoYan Looks like the root cause was fixed by the CA and this PR (and 
> according bug) can be closed now.

Okey.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19685#issuecomment-2179037838

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