#741233 qa.debian.org: send periodic emails for testing migration issues

Package:
qa.debian.org
Source:
qa.debian.org
Submitter:
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Date:
2021-02-20 10:00:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#741233#5
Date:
2014-03-10 09:05:13 UTC
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There are multiple reasons for packages not migrating to testing.
Currently, AFAIK, the maintainer has no automated way of knowing this.

It would be good if an automated email is send whenever a migration is
stalled for some reason.

An example of the problem:

testing migration
excuses:

    105 days old (needed 10 days)
    out of date on kfreebsd-amd64: ioapps (from 1.4r2-2)
    out of date on kfreebsd-i386: ioapps (from 1.4r2-2)
    ioapps (source, i386, amd64, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386) has new
bugs!
    Updating ioapps introduces new bugs: #722922.
    Not considered
#741233#8
Date:
2017-03-17 14:29:10 UTC
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CC-ing d-release.

Ubuntu recently implemented this in their britney instance, see the
commits starting by
https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release/britney/+git/britney2-ubuntu/commit/?id=2775a5435ca04a11f9692054ffdf5bd3bc1982fa

I also concour this is a great idea, but I wonder if this should rather
go in britney2 (as Ubuntu did) or somewhere else, and whether it should
be maintained by the release team or some other team; I already find
weird that the testing watcher is not run by them.
#741233#13
Date:
2017-04-30 16:52:35 UTC
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Patches welcome, I guess?  I would argue there's value in a central
thing sending that sort of mail rather than each service sending its own
separate reminders.  Once upon a time ddpo-by-mail sort of did this, I think?

Cheers,
Julien
#741233#18
Date:
2021-02-20 09:58:33 UTC
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Hallo,

Ich habe dir eine Mail geschickt, aber keine Antwort von dir, warum?

Eddie