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

Thu Sep 8 22:19:42 CEST 2011

Le jeudi 8 septembre 2011 22:12:26, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+> Op donderdag 08 september 2011 12:59:10 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
+> > (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
+> > - 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
+> > 
+> > Packager again:
+> > - be ready to fix bugs : once you pushed a backport, you have to maintain
+> > it until the distribution's end of life :)
+> > 
+> > Does this seem a good process, from the packager, QA and triage point of
+> > view?
+> > 
+> > Best regards
+> > 
+> > Samuel Verschelde
+> 
+> anything about i586 vs x86_64 ? ie: at least 2 tests? or not?
+> 
+> at least updates is this way, iinm...
+
+Yes, this is included in "- test backports the same way that we test updates." 
+:)
+
+Samuel
+