More people should be able to trigger autopkgtests

[Brian Murray]

There are multiple recent hires at Canonical who are doing +1 maintenance and then request people to retry autopkgtest tests for them. (This ends up using people's time which would be better spent elsewhere.) Additionally, given the flakiness of tests or test infrastructure it would be helpful to have more people who can retry autopkgtests.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From #ubuntu-devel on 2023-06-05:

09:17 < rbasak> I wonder if we can expand the set
                of people who can trigger
                autopkgtest regressions. Does it
                need to be restricted to core devs?
09:17 < rbasak> who can trigger autopkgtest
                retries I mean. Please do not
                trigger regressions :)
09:24 < enr0n> rbasak: yeah, I think that would be
               very helpful. IIRC the foundations
               team spent some time talking about
               this in Prague. I think there was
               an idea to have a team (similar to
               ubuntu bug control) where members
               would have permission to retry
               tests.
09:24 < bdmurray> Yes

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

Can we also consider a solution to allow the security team to retrigger autopkgtests against security-britney? Currently anyone on the team can upload the the associated PPAs and hence trigger an initial run, but only core-dev's can retrigger after that. This would be really helpful. Thanks.

[Paride Legovini (paride)]

Duplicate of this bug from pre-Coredev-Paride:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/auto-package-testing/+bug/1953374

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

There is now an autopkgtest-requestors team which individuals or teams may ask to be invited to join.