Which unresolved bugs block a release?

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Thu Mar 22 19:10:11 UTC 2007



Will Woods wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 13:07 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 19:00 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> This is something which has amazed / annoyed me too, I've tried several times 
>>> to start a community effort to something about this metric, but sofar with 
>>> little success.
>>>
>>> These bugs fall into 2 categories:
>>> 1) Bugs which are simply being ignored by @redhat.com people who need to be hit
>>>     with the cluebat (repeatedly)
> 
> Hey now. We're really, really, really busy sometimes *coughRHEL5cough*.
> Be nice.
> 
>>> Most likely a lot of 1) bugs are already solved but never got closed / 
>>> retested, others should be taken upstream (and thus closed in Fedora BZ), etc.
>> If a lot of 1) bugs are already solved, anyone within the 'fedorabugs'
>> group can act as a proxy to close them out.  Team effort would be a very
>> good thing I think.
> 
> Well then - let's start friday Bug Days again. This friday (and possibly
> next friday) we can try to work through the FC5 and FC6 test release
> bugs. It's only 380 bugs! Here's the link:
> 
> http://rdr.to/W8
> 
> That's (currently) 460 ASSIGNED, MODIFIED, NEEDINFO and NEW bugs against
> all the FC5 and FC6 test releases. 
> 
> Next week: FC5, or FC6? 
> 
> This might be a good time to mention the recently-created
> fedora-qa-list:
> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-qa-list
> 
> Further discussion of this topic should go there.
> 

Sounds like a plan to me (friday bugs day) but may I suggest starting with F7 
test bugs so that we can get F7 in as good a shape as possible before release.

Regards,

Hans




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