Release-critical bug process?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> Hi, guys. This is me, not working. ;)
> 
> I just had a great chat with fcami on IRC, and all sorts of interesting
> issues came up. One I definitely want to focus on, though, is
> release-critical bugs.
> 
> He suggested that there may not be a definitely release-critical bug
> process for Fedora releases. This struck me as highly worrying.

Yes because it is not correct information.

> What I mean by a process is this:
> 
> * There should be a release_critical status in Bugzilla that is
> respected. A new Fedora release should not be made unless all
> release_critical bugs are (ideally) fixed or at least specifically
> addressed in some way (I can provide more details on that later).
> 
> * There should be a group that is recognized as being in charge of
> release_critical bugs. They arbitrate what is release_critical and what
> is not, and they track this on a weekly or daily basis (depending where
> we are in the release schedule) and co-ordinate with RelEng on getting
> the bugs fixed.
> 
> Is this, currently, the case? If not, what is the release-critical
> process? What do you guys think about this? Should we have a process?
> Should it be as I described? Who should be in charge? (I would say
> -bugzappers).

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/ReleaseCriteria

Rahul