[openstack-dev] [nova] [QA] Triaging Bugs during Review

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Tue Nov 26 21:41:56 UTC 2013


I wonder how hard it would be to add bug information to gerrit to make
the state of the bug being fixed more obvious?

Just a random idea.

Michael

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya
<vishvananda at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I tend to follow merges and look for valuable havana backports. A few bug
> fixes have merged recently where the associated bug is untriaged (i.e. the
> severity is listed as 'Unknown'). I assume that reviewers of a bugfix
> patch are viewing the associated bugs. It makes sense for core-reviewers
> to do some related bug triaging work in the process. It also would be
> very helpful if they could be tagged for potential backport at the same time.
>
> So I'm suggesting two things during review:
>
> 1. If you are reviewing a patch and the severity of the associated bug is
>    set as unknown, then you set an appropriate severity[1].
> 2. If the bug is important and seems relatively self-contained that you
>    mark it with the havana-backport-potential tag during review.
>
> These two things should only take a matter of seconds, and will greatly help
> the stable-maintainers team.
>
> I will add these responsibilities to the review checklist[2] unless I hear
> some disagreement here.
>
> Thanks,
> Vish
>
> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/BugTriage#Task_2:_Prioritize_confirmed_bugs_.28bug_supervisors.29
> [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ReviewChecklist
>
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