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. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
