Merge Review

[Rahul Sundaram]

Brian Pepple wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 12:50 -0700, Chris Weyl wrote:
>> On 6/4/07, Ruben Kerkhof <ruben at rubenkerkhof.com> wrote:
>>> Now that Fedora 7 is out the door, I'd like to ask what the plans are
>>> for the big Merge Review.
>>> There are still a lot of unassigned tickets, and I think all the
>>> people working on the Review since january (thanks!) could use some
>>> help.
>>> Maybe we can do another Review Day before F-8?
>> This is something I'd personally like to see FESCo address.  If memory
>> serves, originally the intent of the merge reviews was to make sure
>> core packages were reviewed and complied to guidelines like any other
>> package.  As time wore on, for a variety of reasons the decision was
>> made (by FESCo?) to treat the review tix as "advisory" and not
>> blocking a package's inclusion in the Brave Merged World.
> 
> the plan is to have these bug be blockers for F8.

What happens when package reviews don't finish because the reviewers 
don't review it or package maintainers fix up the packages? Do we pull 
out packages (what if this was the kernel or glibc?) or delay release or 
is there other ideas?

Rahul