[Engine-devel] bug-url requirement for stable branch backports

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "R P Herrold" <herrold at owlriver.com>
> To: "Tal Nisan" <tnisan at redhat.com>
> Cc: "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 7:14:34 PM
> Subject: [Engine-devel] bug-url requirement for stable branch backports
> 
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Tal Nisan wrote:
> 
> > I think it will help stabilizing the new features in a short circle,
> > sometimes
> > there are small "fine tuning" fixes that don't have bugs opened for them
> > and
> > the flow is easier if you can just backport them without opening a bug.
> > 
> > On 01/30/2014 04:42 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> > > I'm inclined to drop the "bug-url is required" for engine stable branch
> > > 3.4,
> > 
> > until we GA 3.4, as a lot of the patches are for pre-GA features.
> 
> I took Alon's comment as a -1, and do not understand the flow
> difficulty

No, I am for enforcing real bugs only since rc.
Thus in favour of dropping this now.
I am consistence to what I recommended in past (pre-3.3) as well.

> 
> Cloning a bug is a click and a bit of web trimming.  Adding it
> as a dependency on its parent is typing a bug number in the
> proper field.  It is very hard, unless sone follows both
> mailing lists, and commit mailing lists, to figure out some
> changes and if this is a backport (and not: "stabilizing the
> new features" as Tal mentions)
> 
> The thrashing in stabilization, and very fast gerrit approvals
> on the cpopen patch (it happened in hours, months ago) show
> the need to be explaining to a Bugzilla, what is happening.
> As near as I can tell the package succession is still not
> 'right' for upgrades [It seems to need a manual exclude in a
> yum repo config in one place, OR a manual Provides, OR an
> epoched EVR (!! NOT RECOMMENDED !!)]
> 
> -1
> 
> -- Russ herrold
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