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

[Samuel Verschelde]

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