On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 20:09 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 01:34 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Jesse Keating wrote: > > > A solution, flags! > > > > Well, we should carefully consider the disadvantages of that change. For > > example, one thing we will lose with a flag-based solution is the > > transitiveness of blocking a tracker bug. So we'd lose the KDE, X11, kernel > > etc. trackers or at least not have their dependencies show up in the blocker > > reports. Instead, they'd all have to be nominated as blockers explicitly > > even if they're already on e.g. the KDE tracker. > > Why do we even have separate tracking bugs for subprojects? If there > were a set of KDE release criteria and the Fedora release criteria > included "The KDE release criteria are met", the current structure would > make sense. But with a single set of release criteria, I propose that > the subproject tracking bugs should go away and all blockers should be > linked directly to the main tracking bug. It's easy enough to create > query links for maintainers that will find all the blockers in a > subproject. Because we're in a transition period. We've only had formal blockers since the F13 cycle. Prior to that, blockers were whatever a fairly blobby mass of people (essentially, whoever actually spun the discs, plus whoever they chose to listen to) said they were. All the blocker bugs for particular projects / areas arose then. We have the formal criteria now, but it's not _entirely_ simple. The desktop criteria we had for F13 are a first cut, they were written with the input of the 'desktop' (i.e. GNOME) team but not really any of the other desktop SIGs, and they specifically were _not_ enforced for anything but GNOME for F13 (we made that decision early on in F13 cycle). So there's still some overlap there. Sorting it out so we have coherent criteria which are considered for all the desktops we ship and not just the default desktop, is one of my goals for F14. It may turn out to still be useful to have project-specific trackers of some sort, it may not. I don't think we can be entirely sure, yet. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
