We discussed this briefly at today's TB meeting, and agreed that this makes sense. As long as the regression tests get run on every update before it leaves -proposed, that's what matters. If that can't be automated yet, then it needs to be agreed as policy that someone will do it.
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:07:40PM +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > The X team and I would like to get a MRE for mesa stable point releases. > As a first crack at this, I'm asking for a provisional MRE for mesa > 8.0.3 in precise-updates. > > Mesa releases micro releases from its stable branch; 8.0.3 is the third > of these, there will be 8.0.4 shortly. The stable branch generally > doesn't see further updates after the next major release, but some good > fixes tend to be accumulated until then. > > Mesa is a bit of a special beast; it doesn't have in-source regression > tests but it *does* have an extensive regression and conformance suite > called piglit. Also, since Mesa touches hardware, running this > regression suite as a part of the build on the buildds does not make > sense. Instead I propose that we run piglit on the QA infrastructure - > there's a wide variety of graphical hardware in there, so we can be > reasonably confident that if piglit does not regress on the QA hardware > then it will not regress elsewhere. (Bryce has already run piglit > against 8.0.3 on all his hardware without regression) > > In the past we've failed to pick up any but the simplest bugfixes for > mesa, both due to concerns about regressions and because all but the > simplest fixes appear quite complex, making the SRU team justifiably > nervous. I hope that piglit on the QA machines can sooth our concerns > about regressions, and that the MRE can make it easier for the SRU team > to accept. > -- > technical-board mailing list > technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board -- - mdz -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
