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Re: Quality Assurance Group mini-policy



On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 01:48:39PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> > In the normal development period (when only unstable and stable
> > distributions exist), delays are as follows:
> >   * fix for a critical/grave bug:			2 days
> >   * fix for any kind of security or important bug:	7 days
> >   * fix for a bug of normal severity:			20 days
> >   * cosmetic fix or a wish implementation:		40 days
> 
> My only concern here is that a maintainer should be able to veto a
> cosmetic or wishlist item.  Especially wishlist items, which often
> have issues.  I might want to leave a wishlist item around so I can
> think about it, but that doesn't necessarily mean I want to see
> something implemented exactly as described in the report.

The delays are there to prevent inactivity of maintainers, not to
override their opposing to the proposed fix for the bug. Generally,
they're intended to be used when the maintainer is MIA, not to create
conflicts...

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