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

[Nir Soffer]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Eyal Edri <eedri at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> Only the owner of the bug knows if the all the required patches are merged
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>
> The authors should use Bug-Url on the main bug and related-to: on other
> patches that are related.

This is not possible. Many times you need series of patches to fix a bug, and
you the number of patches may change during development. You start with one
patch, and later you find that you need another one, so all of them will have
a bug url.

Practically, you should expect that all patches in the series will
have a bug-url.
If the hook will change the bug incorrectly someone will have to fix this, and
it is very unlikely that a developer will go to clean after the hook.

>> and backported to the correct repositories.
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> This is done with logic according to the bug target milestone.
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> for e.g - a patch on branch 'ovirt-engine-4.0' was merged to bug targeted to
> ovirt-4.0.2.
> The hook should check if branch 4.0.2 exists or not, if it exists then the
> bug should NOT move to MODIFIED,
> since it needs still backporting to ovirt-engine-4.0.2 branch.

This is too fragile. For example, maybe a 4.0.2 branch is created after
the patch was merged to 4.0 branch, and the patch will be missing, although
the bug is already set to modified.

Setting to modified should be done by the owner of the bug, after verifying
that the patches exists in correct branch.

I'm not suggesting to remove the hook, just disable the feature of making
a bug modified.

Nir