[Release Process] test oncall needs to fix issues on master branch earlier #36527
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What happened + What you expected to happen
Tests that has been failing for too long without fixing took a long time to debug.
In particular, during 2.5.0 release, microbenchmark_38 failed for close to a month up to the release (#34915). During the release, it took about 10 days to resolve.
On previous release, Cuong played the role of test-cop to open issues and pushing people to fix tests. Cuong did that for one particular OSS team and that has been working pretty well.
For the next releases, we will expand this test policy, test cop idea to all teams within OSS. The test cop is also now played mostly as a bot.
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