On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 13:56 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Kamil Paral wrote: > > So we could ignore freeze just for packages not being on any install > > medium. But then I'm not sure how much that is helpful and it might be > > difficult to implement this in Bodhi. > > In the old manual process, I just had to ask rel-eng and they'd blanket-OK > freeze overrides for such packages (with the same arguments as yours, i.e., > it cannot really break anything). Yes - and that frequently went wrong. That's precisely why we ditched that process and came up with a better one, where the decision isn't made on-the-fly by whoever happens to be reading the tickets in releng, but is made according to an established process, by a sensible group of stakeholders, with proper tracking and a paper trail. > These days, such freeze override requests > get blanket-rejected instead (because it doesn't make much of a difference, > so they don't see any reason to make exceptions to the processes). Nothing gets blanket rejected. Each FE proposal is evaluated individually on its merits. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
