On Fri, 2022-03-11 at 13:50 -0500, Ben Cotton wrote: > ## Proposal > > Modify the "Edition self-identification" criterion to explicitly give > the Fedora Council the ability to waive the blocker status of bugs > that violate this criterion. Specifically, append the following to > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Final_Release_Criteria#Self-identification > > > The Fedora Council, as the body that defines Editions, may vote to waive this criterion at its discretion through its regular decision-making process. > > I included "as the body that defines Edition" to make it clear that > the Council's ability to waive this criterion follows from its > ownership of what an Edition is and not as a broad "the Council can > waive arbitrary criteria" statement. > > The reason I said "regular decision-making process" is to indicate > that waiving a blocker under this criterion requires a normal ticket > vote[1], not a policy change[2]. > > > ## Context > > During F35, Adam discovered that our Cloud deliverables were calling > themselves an Edition when they are not. This violates the "Edition > self-identifications" Final release criterion. > > We waived this for F35 under the "late blocker exception". The Cloud > SIG is working to re-Editionify Cloud, but that won't happen for F36. > The Council agreed to waive this[3], but we don't have an explicit > mechanism to allow this. Hence, the proposal above. > > [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/#_making_decisions > [2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/policy/policy-change-policy/ > [3] https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/389#comment-785482 So nobody has objected to this, and we've brought it up in QA and blocker review meetings, and in the Council thread; I'm gonna go ahead and implement it so we can apply the waiver to the bug report. Thanks for the proposal, Ben. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha https://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
