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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Backports process (addendum to policy)</H1>
    <B>Manuel Hiebel</B> 
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    <I>Thu Sep  8 21:30:35 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>Le jeudi 08 septembre 2011 &#224; 12:59 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a &#233;crit :
&gt;<i> (QA Team and Triage team in CC, but please answer only to 
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia-dev at mageia.org</A>)
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I was asked to define a process for backports validation, so here is a 
</I>&gt;<i> proposal. We can discuss it a few days and then I'll add the result to the 
</I>&gt;<i> backports policy page.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Process for backports :
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Triage:
</I>&gt;<i> - identify backport requests
</I>&gt;<i> - add &quot;Backport Request: &quot; in the bug report summary
</I>&gt;<i> - add the &quot;backport&quot; keyword
</I>&gt;<i> - assign to maintainer
</I>
For it's Ok.

&gt;<i> The maintainer can refuse to do the backport :
</I>&gt;<i> - doesn't want to maintain it =&gt; assign the bug report back to 
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">bugsquad at mageia.org</A> so that another packager can step in
</I>&gt;<i> - has a good reason for not providing this backport (policy, possible 
</I>&gt;<i> breakage...) =&gt; close as wontfix
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Packager:
</I>&gt;<i> - create bug report if not done already
</I>&gt;<i> - submit to {core,nonfree,tainted}/backports_testing
</I>&gt;<i> - find a tester : original bug reporter when there is one, yourself if there's 
</I>&gt;<i> none, or ask in forums/irc/MLs...
</I>&gt;<i> - once tested by at least one person (it must be said explicitly in the bug 
</I>&gt;<i> report), hand it to QA :
</I>&gt;<i>   - make sure the bug report summary starts with &quot;Backport Request: &quot; or 
</I>&gt;<i> &quot;Backport Candidate: &quot;
</I>&gt;<i>   - add the &quot;backport&quot; keyword if missing
</I>&gt;<i>   - assign to <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">qa-bugs at ml.mageia.org</A>
</I>&gt;<i>   - list the source RPMs if there are several
</I>&gt;<i> - be ready to fix bugs and answer QA team questions
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> QA:
</I>&gt;<i> - test backports the same way that we test updates. But don't forget that 
</I>&gt;<i> updates have a higher priority than that of backports.
</I>&gt;<i> - move the packages from backports_testing to backports
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Packager again:
</I>&gt;<i> - be ready to fix bugs : once you pushed a backport, you have to maintain it 
</I>&gt;<i> until the distribution's end of life :)
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Does this seem a good process, from the packager, QA and triage point of view?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Best regards
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Samuel Verschelde
</I>
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Manuel Hiebel (leuhmanu)

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