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Re: automatic bug filing by test robot



Lucas Nussbaum writes ("Re: automatic bug filing by test robot"):
> I think that we have a problem with the way we export data from
> automated tests. Consensus is (I think) that bugs should not be filed
> automatically, unless the person filing the bugs is reasonably sure of
> the validity of the bugs, the lack of duplicate bugs, etc. I agree with
> that.

Right.

> Maybe you should focus on providing the data in a machine-parseable
> format, and write a seperate tool that would allow to gather data from
> all the tests we are running (I can think of lintian and piuparts, at
> least), and display all the results on a nice web page, with all the
> cool features one can think of.

That's a very good point.

> So far, everybody has been reinventing the wheel, and that results in
> http://piuparts.cs.helsinki.fi/ and http://lintian.debian.org/.

Hmm.  We really want this integrated or at least linked from
packages.qa.debian.org, don't we ?

Ian.


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