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According to your +</I>>><i> proposal, either QA people decide this or they waste time on updates that +</I>>><i> later get rejected. +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> IMHO, rejection reasons: +</I>><i> - The sec team doesn't think the update fixes a serious security +</I>><i> vulnerability; so it's not updates but backports +</I>><i> - The QA team couldn't validate, i.e. using the test case in the bug +</I>><i> report, their test results didn't show that the bug is fixed +</I>><i> +</I> +Adding to this: +- the bug is fixed, but it caused regressions somewhere else in the +package itself, or in packages depending on it. + +>>><i> So the points are : +</I>>>><i> - no update can be uploaded without QA validation +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> What does 'QA validation' mean exactly, can only certain people do it...? +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> IIUC, QA validation is that they use the test case given in the +</I>><i> report; an example of a test case: +</I>><i> - install package foo-1mga1 from */release +</I>><i> - do foo bar, notice the app crashes +</I>><i> - install the fixed package foo-1.1mga1 from */updates_testing +</I>><i> - test again, the bug should be fixed +</I>><i> +</I>><i> if any of these steps fail, then it's not gonna get pushed as an +</I>><i> update. And it should be the QA team doing the validation, i.e. +</I>><i> experienced devs/packagers in the that team. +</I>><i> +</I>>>><i> - QA manage the checks, and so will requires help ( hence the security +</I>>>><i> team or any packager can help, provided they know how to do QA ) +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> So a packager wants to fix a bug in package that is not very visible, sends +</I>>><i> it to QA, then has to test it anyway? I'm not sure what you're saying here. +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Not the packager committing the fix, (if he doesn't think it's fixed +</I>><i> he won't ask for an update to begin with). But the QA team, this team +</I>><i> could/should have packagers in it. +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i>    Christiaan +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> Ahmad Samir +</I>><i> +</I> + + +-- +Ahmad Samir +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="005208.html">[Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="005211.html">[Mageia-dev] Finalizing update process +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#5209">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#5209">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#5209">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#5209">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |