Re: You (yes, YOU) maybe can't yet definitely nominate blocker bugs

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On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 01:45 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Exciting news from the fast-moving world of RH Bugzilla administration:
> a mere, fleeting year and a half after I filed the initial request, it
> is finally the case that any registered Bugzilla user can now change the
> Blocks: (and Depends On:) field of any Fedora bug! Thanks to Matt Tyson
> for doing this at last.
> 
> What this means is you no longer need editbugs privileges to be able to
> propose blocker bugs. This was never intended to be the case, it was
> only an unfortunate consequence of the mechanism used for nominating
> bugs as blockers. Now anyone with a BZ account can follow the
> instructions at
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process to nominate a
> bug as a release blocker, or
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_nth_bug_process to nominate one as
> 'NTH' (which means it does not block release, but freeze can be broken
> to take a fix for the bug: it denotes bugs important enough to merit
> freeze breaks).
> 
> To nominate a bug as a blocker for F18 final, for instance, mark it as
> blocking the bug 'F18Blocker'.
> 
> Please use these powers wisely!

Sadly, I have now been informed that the change has only gone to staging
and won't be in production until January. Mark your calendars, folks.
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Adam Williamson
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