On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 12:08 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 04:48:56AM -0500, Kamil Paral wrote: > > Big thumbs up. A few things for consideration: > > 1. Do we need numbers in the alias? We always release just a single Fedora at a time. > > If they're _not_ per release, all of the old dependencies will need to be > removed from the alias after each release, causing a lot of churn. I don't > know how important it is to save the history for its own sake, but I think > avoiding the need to clear the bug is worth it. My first reaction was this, and then I realized, wait, we're talking about the *alias*. Not the bug ID. The alias is transferrable. It's not one tracker bug for all Alpha blockers ever, but one alias which transfers from bug to bug: we create a new set of bugs for each cycle, but we just transfer the alias from the old to the new. We can keep track of the old bug IDs in the wiki (we already do this, in fact) so we can still relatively easily find old trackers. Proposing a small refinement: we apply the release specific alias names to the old trackers after each release. So right now the F19 bugs would be AlphaBlocker, AlphaFreezeException etc: when F19 goes out, we transfer those aliases to the F20 bugs, and make the F19 bugs F19AlphaBlocker, F19AlphaFreezeException etc. We can even apply this retroactively all the way back through the bug database (add those aliases to the old bugs) so we can always find the trackers for any release via the same format. So a big ack to Kamil's idea. It makes a huge amount of sense and simplifies things so much: at any time ever, if you want to nominate a bug as blocking the Alpha, mark it as AlphaBlocker. D'oh. On the 'F' thing: the only issue to remember is that Bugzilla is shared with RHEL. But RHEL has a different blocker process and I think the changes of them deciding they want to use the same aliases is quite small, and if it happens, we can tweak things a bit later (just add 'Fedora' or 'F' or whatever into the aliases). For now I'm a big +1 to the simple option. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
