Release-critical bug process?

[John Poelstra]

Jesse Keating said the following on 02/11/2009 09:21 AM Pacific Time:
> On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 09:18 -0800, John Poelstra wrote:
>>  Nothing is worse than spending several hours triaging bugs to a blocker 
>> list only to find out that the blocker list isn't being used or that the 
>> release has been deemed "done enough" and has gone to the mirrors.  I 
>> know every bit helps, but it is still demoralizing.
> 
> While I agree to an extent, just because we chose not to fix the bug
> before the release, doesn't mean that the bug shouldn't be fixed.  The
> efforts put in won't be in vain at all, it just may take a little bit
> more time before the return on investment.
> 
> 

My core issue is not knowing a decision has been made about the quality 
of a release and how that decision was arrived at.  We talk a lot about 
transparency in decision making in Fedora.  I think it applies here too :)

John