[openstack-dev] [tripleo] Proposal to require bugs for tech debt

Emilien Macchi emilien at redhat.com
Wed Aug 16 00:59:30 UTC 2017


On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Alex Schultz <aschultz at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm proposing that in order to track tech debt that we're adding in as
> part of development that we create a way to track these items and not
> approve them without a bug (and a reference to said bug)[0].  Please
> take a moment to review the proposed policy and comment. I would like
> to start this for the queens cycle.

I also think we should frequently review the status of these bugs.
Maybe unofficially from time to time and officially during milestone-3
of each cycle.

I like the proposal so far, thanks.

> A real world example of where this would beneficial would be the
> workaround we had for buggy ssh[1]. This patch was merged 6 months ago
> to work around an issue in ssh that was recently fixed. However we
> would most likely never have remembered to revert this. It was only
> because someone[2] spotted it and mentioned it that it is being
> reverted now.
>
> Thanks,
> -Alex
>
> [0] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/494044/
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/6e8e27488da31b3b282fe1ce5e07939b3fa11b2f,n,z
> [2] Thanks pabelanger
>
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