On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 08:23 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > I wanted to suggest https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518880 > as a candidate for blocker status, because it's a regression in a > well-publicized feature. (The maintainers are already aware of the > problem and working on it, I'd just like to make sure it's not lost in > the shuffle.) > > That criterion is worth considering generally for blocker status. But > maybe it needs some refinement? We don't really have hard and fast criteria for blockers. This is for two reasons: a) we're too lazy to write any, and b) it's really hard. b) obviously has significant implications for a). ;) less flippantly, it's almost impossible to quantify blocker-ness in terms flexible enough to cover all cases, but rigid enough to be of any actual use in objective evaluation (as opposed to just coming down to a subjective judgment call, which is what we currently use). We have a fairly solid definition for *Alpha* blockers - only 'high' or 'urgent' severity bugs in critical path components - but even that requires occasional exceptions, and the higher standard required of Beta and final releases makes it harder to define blocker-ness. So, short story, right now it's a judgment call. I'd certainly judge that this bug is a _final release_ blocker. Whether it's a beta blocker is a trickier call. We'll make sure to cover it in the meeting on Friday to see what everyone thinks. The two main ways to propose something as a blocker: show up to the meeting and raise it, or simply set it as one (as someone's done for this bug already - it's been set as a final release blocker at present) and it'll automatically get looked at during the meeting. If the consensus at the meeting is that it isn't a blocker, it'll be dropped (with an explanation). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
