Re: Release-critical bugs, and #97671
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 03:54:32PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> > > The Technical Committee has passed the following resolution, regarding
> > > the dispute surrounding Bug#97671 and the proper use of the Severity
> > > tag and other BTS features:
> > ...
> > > We therefore recommend that
> > >
> > > * The bug system administrators and/or the project leader or some
> > > other delegates appointed by the project leader decide on the
> > > proper use of the bug system features.
> >
> > I'd therefore like to formally request that the bug system
> > administrators and/or the project leader take responsibility for this
> > issue. I have spoken informally to one of the bug system
> > administrators on IRC, and was advised that they wish to avoid process
> > and political questions and want to just keep the software working.
Two of them, as I am also at owner@bugs and I also stated the same in that
discussion.
> > Therefore, I'd suggest that the project leader ought to consider the
> > question, or delegate it. Should I reassign the bug report to the
> > `project' pseudo-package ? Or is there some other pseudo-package for
> > the project leader ?
>
> If the dpl decides that the bug system administrators should come to a
> decision, then we will. I have no idea what that would be at this time,
> as I need to review the bug and other discussions first. And, I can't
> speak for the others behind the owner@bugs alias.
Two out of three don't think they're the right people to decide, and the
third is the release manager. Interesting place to move the decision to :>
Branden has suggested that we make a "release-critical" tag that we would
automatically add to all bugs filed with severities currently marked RC,
and the release manager would later be able to strip off these as needed.
We would document the fact that severities are to be kept real from now on
(i.e. that one is not supposed to change all the grave bugs they can't fix
in time for release to important), and that the release-critical tag is
allowed to be added or removed but with the release manager having the final
say if there's a conflict (as he does in reality).
The serious severity can be kept as it would still be useful to give a bit
more granularity to the severity system, esp. WRT the Policy violations.
aj, bdale?
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