Re: RFC: Banning bots from submitting automated koji builds

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On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 7:09 AM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > With things like [0] (TL;DR: bots submitting broken builds to rawhide)
> > becoming a more regular occurrence, I propose that we extend the
> > existing Updates Policy [1] to make it explicit that bots are not
> > allowed to submit builds / updates - even to rawhide - unattended:
> > "Rawhide is not your CI environment."
>
> I don't think that's good for either the packages that are using bots
> or for Fedora as a whole.
>
> While the bots certainly don't always get it right nor do the humans
> and I would garner that there's a lot more problems introduced in this
> way by humans, over the years I've spent considerable time fixing
> issues like this introduced by humans. Do we ban humans too? Do we ban
> RHBZ bots as well because they don't always get it right either?
> Ultimately automation is hard, but ultimately I feel it generally gets
> it wrong no less than humans do, and generally in a consistent way at
> least.

I definitely agree here, we want automation to evolve rather than
simply banning it. I understand the problem with automation, but
anyone can make mistakes. We should definitely have a contact person
responsible for the bot. And we can just ban the bot if it does
something unusual.
>
>
> Peter
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