----- "Sandro \"red\" Mathys" <red@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/19/2010 04:57 PM, Kamil Paral wrote: > > ----- "Sandro \"red\" Mathys" <red@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >>> List of ON_QA bugs - http://bit.ly/dx4ehO > >> > >> [16:17:55] <red_alert> many of those ON_QA bugs have been VERIFIED > >> before bodhi changed it back [to ON_QA]...do we need to re-test > >> those? > >> > >> > >> [16:19:47] <jlaska> red_alert: I think that's a really good > >> discussion > >> for the list. kparal mentioned that earlier, let's discuss it > there > >> so > >> others can benefit as well > >> > >> ##### > >> > >> I've often seen people setting the status back to VERIFIED in such > a > >> case but I'm not exactly sure if that's the best possible > behavior. > >> > >> So, does it make sense to re-test fixes because the newly pushed > >> version > >> might have broken things again or do we generally assume that > fixes > >> included in older versions are still working in newer versions? > >> > >> IMHO it doesn't make sense to re-test again. There'll always be > newer > >> versions and we can't always re-test every bug with every new > >> version. > >> > >> +1 for just setting back to VERIFIED again > > > > > > It's a little more complicated. Let's suppose we have bug #1234 and > > foobar-1.1 claims to fix it. If you post proposed update to Bodhi > > and fill into details that it fixes #1234, then Bodhi will set > > #1234 to ON_QA. Some tester will test that and will set the status > > to VERIFIED. > > > > Now, there was some serious issue with foobar-1.1, unrelated to > > #1234. The developer will *unpush* that proposed update, create > > foobar-1.2 and post it to proposed updates again. Because there > > is still no foobar update released that would fix #1234, the > > developer will again mark foobar-1.2 as fixing #1234. Bodhi will > > change #1234 back from VERIFIED to ON_QA. This is correct, because > > although foobar-1.1 is verified to fix that issue, there were some > > additional changes that could negatively impact that fix. So the > > tester should test foobar-1.2 and mark #1234 as VERIFIED again, > > if everything works ok. > > > > On the other hand, let's suppose that foobar-1.1 was released > > and pushed into 'updates' repository. Now, when the developer > > creates foobar-1.2, he *should not* mark bug #1234 as being fixed > > by foobar-1.2. That was was already fixed by foobar-1.1 and the fix > > was *released*. If such event happens (developer mistakenly marks > > foobar-1.2 as fixing #1234 and Bodhi sets the bug again to ON_QA), > > there is really no need to test it again. We can set it back to > > VERIFIED. > > > > I think I have described how it should work. But maybe I'm wrong. > > Does it make sense? What do you think? > > Right, I never thought about unpushed updates (i.e. I hardly ever met > such cases yet). Not just unpushed updates, but simply all "not pushed updates" :) foobar-1.1 may stay in updates-testing, but it never comes to stable updates. And foobar-1.2 is then posted into updates-testing. In this case we still need to re-verify relevant bugs. > So I think we need to quickly check the details in > bodhi and then either re-test or (in most cases) set it back to > VERIFIED. > > Is that about it or is it more complicated? :) That's about it, I guess :) -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
