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[Mageia-dev] Backports process (addendum to policy)

+ Colin Guthrie + mageia at colin.guthr.ie +
+ Thu Sep 8 13:08:39 CEST 2011 +

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'Twas brillig, and Samuel Verschelde at 08/09/11 11:59 did gyre and gimble:
+> (QA Team and Triage team in CC, but please answer only to 
+> mageia-dev at mageia.org)
+> 
+> I was asked to define a process for backports validation, so here is a 
+> proposal. We can discuss it a few days and then I'll add the result to the 
+> backports policy page.
+> 
+> Process for backports :
+> 
+> Triage:
+> - identify backport requests
+> - add "Backport Request: " in the bug report summary
+> - add the "backport" keyword
+> - assign to maintainer
+> 
+> The maintainer can refuse to do the backport :
+> - doesn't want to maintain it => assign the bug report back to 
+> bugsquad at mageia.org so that another packager can step in
+> - has a good reason for not providing this backport (policy, possible 
+> breakage...) => close as wontfix
+> 
+> Packager:
+> - create bug report if not done already
+> - submit to {core,nonfree,tainted}/backports_testing
+
+Is this straight from the cauldron tree in subversion?
+
+> - find a tester : original bug reporter when there is one, yourself if there's 
+> none, or ask in forums/irc/MLs...
+> - once tested by at least one person (it must be said explicitly in the bug 
+> report), hand it to QA :
+>   - make sure the bug report summary starts with "Backport Request: " or 
+> "Backport Candidate: "
+>   - add the "backport" keyword if missing
+>   - assign to qa-bugs at ml.mageia.org
+>   - list the source RPMs if there are several
+> - be ready to fix bugs and answer QA team questions
+> 
+> QA:
+> - test backports the same way that we test updates. But don't forget that 
+> updates have a higher priority than that of backports.
+> - move the packages from backports_testing to backports
+
+Just from a man power perspective this, could be a lot of work for QA
+(even at lower priority) but I cannot see a way to improve this without
+sacrificing quality control!
+
+Col
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