On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 13:52 -0500, Allen Kistler wrote: > Are there any differences about what constitutes a blocker for the > different cycles (e.g., alpha vs. beta)? One general basis would be > different objectives for how much needs to work for the different > pre-releases. I looked around, but I didn't find anything documented. > > Part of what started me looking is that anaconda appears to be unable to > reuse existing ext filesystems when choosing custom layout on my test > machines. (I like to reuse /boot for multi-booting.) How big a deal > should that be for alpha, given that most early testing would involve > blowing a drive away and starting from scratch? > > BZ 513104 for those interested. There is a definition, but it's quite tough: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/ReleaseCriteria in practice, the net is cast somewhat wider at GA time, but we don't have a hard definition. We've been trying to work to a hard definition at least for Alpha: considering bugs that significantly affect the critical path (see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Critical_Path_Packages_Proposal ) as blockers. The definition of 'significantly affect' is basically 'severity high or urgent according to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow#Severity , but there are exceptions to this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515410 is one, it's technically medium or even low severity, but practically it would cause severe surprise to _everyone_ installing the Alpha, so we consider it a blocker). To give a short definition without references: if it stops you being able to install, get into a graphical desktop, or update the system, it's a blocker bug. We're trying to get to a decent solid public definition of blocker criteria for each release stage, but in practice it's very hard to write a policy that's both definitive yet sufficiently flexible to cover odd cases. I'm not sure we'll ever get all the way there, but we'll do our best. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
