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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Jonathan Lange<jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Francis J.
> Lacoste<francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On September 2, 2009, Jonathan Lange wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I just had a quick chat with Michael Hudson, who is our Build
>>> Engineer[1] for this release cycle about bug tags. The reason being
>>> that I want to file bugs usefully and contribute patches where they
>>> are needed.
>>>
>>> We've currently got three related tags here:
>>>   - build-infrastructure[2]
>>>   - test-system[3]
>>>   - spurious-test-failures[4]
>>>
>>> The 'test-system' tag seems to be particularly overloaded. It's used
>>> for disabled tests, crappy tests, bugs in the testing infrastructure
>>> and other things.
>>>
>>> Also, it would be really nice to have one place to look at for Build
>>> Engineer-related bugs. I suggest,
>>>
>>>   * we create a new 'buggy-tests' tag
>>>   * we abandon the 'test-system' tag
>>>   * all bugs on 'test-system' move into either 'build-infrastructure',
>>> 'buggy-tests' or 'spurious-test-failure'
>>>
>>
>> I'm all for merging test-system into build-infrastructure.
>>
>> I don't understand the distinction between buggy-tests and spurious-test-
>> failures. I think we only need one tag here and spurious-test-failure seems to
>> be fine (although a little long).
>>
>
> The distinction is that there are some tests that are in some way
> buggy that might not be failing spuriously.
>
> e.g. the test_domination tests in bug 39880.
>
> But you're right, we probably don't need it. As for tag length, well,
> bugs has autocomplete on almost all of the forms where you can enter
> it. :)
>

And there's a couple of "missing test" style bugs also. e.g.,

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/5947
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/30138

I've left these tagged as test-system for now.

jml