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Infrastructure improvements for development release maintenance

Registered by Colin Watson on 2011-10-20

We have many reports that help us keep track of automatically-detectable problems in the development release (FTBFS, NBS, component-mismatches, the conflict checker, the transition tracker, etc.). These are all well and good, but they are rather disconnected from each other and in many cases do not provide very good facilities for distributing work among developers. If we want to drive these reports consistently to zero, some time spent on infrastructure would be worthwhile. What can we do to improve matters?

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Status:: Started

Approver:: Steve Langasek

Priority:: Medium

Drafter:: Colin Watson

Direction:: Approved

Assignee:: Colin Watson

Definition:: Approved

Series goal:: None

Implementation:: Started

Milestone target:: None

Started by: Colin Watson on 2011-11-18

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Work items:
[broder] Set up lintian lab: DONE
[cjwatson] Set up piuparts: TODO
Generate separate report from lintian of Ubuntu-specific packages: TODO
Generate JSON output from lintian for harvest: TODO
[cjwatson] Generate JSON output from piuparts for harvest: TODO
[cjwatson] Move generation of *-mismatches reports off ftpmaster into ubuntu-archive-tools/people: DONE
[cjwatson] HTMLify *-mismatches reports: DONE
Implement annotations and bug links in *-mismatches reports (if Harvest is not enough): TODO
HTMLify conflict checker output: TODO
Implement annotations and bug links in conflict checker output (if Harvest is not enough): TODO
[laney] Merge transition tracker from Debian trunk: DONE
[laney] Add transition index: DONE
[cjwatson] Fix transition tracker runner to remove stale output: TODO
Prepare and advertise suitable +1 maintenance overview URL in Harvest: TODO
[broder] extend lintian to report on packages using dpkg-maintscript-helper without the necessary dpkg pre-depends (Ubuntu-specific lintian tag; http://lintian.ubuntuwire.org/tags/preinst-uses-dpkg-maintscript-helper-without-predepends.html): DONE

2011-11-18 cjwatson: I've dropped the work item to take over and update the weather report, because as explained in the wiki page it seems unlikely that it will be able to simultaneously meet the needs of release management and the +1 maintenance team. I would rather limit the scope and have us do a good job on the latter.

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