[ovirt-devel] Alternatives to automatically move bugs to MODIFIED

[Nir Soffer]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Eyal Edri <eedri at redhat.com> wrote:
> I still thinks its a very valuable hook and we are aware of the fact it has
> bugs,  especially with patches on master branch and 4.0.
>
> Shlomi from the infra team is working on a solution for it as we speak and
> we hope to have a solution in the next few days,  however it's not trival to
> test and requires setting up a staging env and improve loga for the hooks
> system.

How do you plan to solve this?

Only the owner of the bug knows if the all the required patches are merged
and backported to the correct repositories.

> On Aug 17, 2016 12:06 PM, "Eli Mesika" <emesika at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> I also got this, especially when bugs should be back-ported
>> +1 for option #1
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Yedidyah Bar David <didi at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We currently have a bot that automatically moves bugs from POST to
>>> MODIFIED
>>> if all linked patches on gerrit are merged.
>>>
>>> It happened to me personally several times that this was a wrong thing to
>>> do,
>>> either because a new patch was still needed but not pushed yet, or
>>> because
>>> an existing patch should have been back-ported to another branch and
>>> wasn't
>>> yet. Since I usually pay more attention to my bug in POST, I sometimes
>>> missed
>>> this and handled the missing patches (backports, usually) later than I
>>> could
>>> if left on POST.
>>>
>>> I have a feeling I am not the only one. So I suggest to stop doing this.
>>>
>>> I can think of several alternatives:
>>>
>>> 1. Do nothing. I think that's reasonable - I think most people pay more
>>> attention to POST bugs anyway.
>>>
>>> 2. Set needinfo on bug owner.
>>>
>>> 3. Send some alert email to relevant people (bug owner, existing patches
>>> owners,
>>> perhaps others - e.g. reviewers of existing patches, perhaps those
>>> that actually reviewed, etc.). Need to think how to make it not too
>>> annoying for others but
>>> still effective also if owner is on long PTO or something like that. New
>>> flag
>>> doesn't have to be very specific - can be called something like
>>> 'attention
>>> needed' or something like that.
>>>
>>> 4. Add a new flag for that and set it. This will allow easier
>>> filtering/reporting.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>> --
>>> Didi
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