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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Backports process (addendum to policy)</H1>
<B>Samuel Verschelde</B>
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<I>Thu Sep 8 12:59:10 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>(QA Team and Triage team in CC, but please answer only to
<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia-dev at mageia.org</A>)
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
<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">bugsquad at mageia.org</A> 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 <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">qa-bugs at ml.mageia.org</A>
- 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
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