Re: Automatically testing package updates

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com> writes:

> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
>
>> Also I don't think we should spam the bug tracker with package upgrades,
>> so we'd have to think about something for that.
>
> Could you clarify what you're objecting to?  Is it bug issues being
> created that are then not (as is currently the case) automatically
> closed?  Or is simply the creation of bug issues problematic, even if
> they were to be closed automatically by a bot (yet to be implemented)?

It would be preferable to automate trivial updates *completely*, even
bypassing the need for manual patch generation and submission to the bug
tracker.  I'd rather reserve the issue tracker for humans and keep bots
in a realm that is separate from the user interfaces designed for
humans.

-- 
Ricardo