Drawing lessons from fatal SELinux bug #1054350

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 15:11 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:18:56 -0500
> Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> ....snip....
> 
> > * possibly adding a "what should users test?" field to the update
> > info.
> > 
> >   I know that there's a "notes" field in the update, but maybe it'd
> > help to explicitly include testing instructions?
> > 
> >   Each package in the pkgdb (or in git, or wherever) could have
> >   a standard list included in each update as the default (for
> > example, for 'calc', it might be to try `calc -q
> > read /usr/share/calc/regress.cal`. That would duplicate a likely
> > smoke-test, though, so maybe also "run interactively and make sure
> > basic math works".
>  
> >   Then, each update could also optionally (and this would be
> > presented in bold if it were used) say something like "New release
> > adds log() function; please test that it works", or "Severe bug where
> > 1+1=3 corrected; please test that the answer now corresponds with
> > consensus reality."
> 
> I could have sworn we already had something like this where bodhi would
> add a link to a wiki page for test plan on a package if that wiki page
> existed. I can't seem to find it now, so perhaps it was just something
> we talked about, but never implemented. 

Nope, you're right. :)

https://github.com/fedora-infra/bodhi/blob/develop/bodhi/model.py#L191

For example, the test case pages for the package 'foo' need to be added
to the 'Category:Package foo test cases' category.

There's also an option in the config file which must be switched on for
this to work: 'query_wiki_test_cases'

And here is an update where this is, in fact, actually used:
    https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-1465/


-- 
Mathieu