[Pulp-dev] redmine process for katello-integration-related issues

[Brian Bouterse]

Thanks for writing this up and sending! My only addition would be to also
remove the P1, P2, P3 tags entirely after setting all tagged issues with
'katello' and setting their priorities based on the previous P1/P2/P3 label.

Thank you!

On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 12:32 PM Grant Gainey <ggainey at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> As part of working with the katello upstream, we have been using a
> mechanism for prioritizing pulp-issues in order to help keep the Katello
> Gang unblocked. We have been using the 'Tags' field in an issue, and
> marking things as Katello-P1/2/3, with P1 being "blocker for the next
> release".
>
> As we move through releases, this is starting to break down - last
> release's P2 is this release's P1. This was brought up for discussion in
> today's integration meeting.
>
> In order to continue being able to prioritize work, we're proposing a
> change to the process to make it more sustainable as releases go on. I
> *think* I have captured the proposal effectively below - if I've missed
> something vital, I'm sure someone who was in the meeting will expand on it:
>
>    - tag katello-related issues as 'katello'
>    - use the milestone field to define the planned-pulp-release-version
>    - use the Priority field to mark how important it is, *to katello*, to
>    fix a bug NOW, as opposed to 'the day before the release is cut' (which in
>    practice is likely to be  'blockers are critical, everything else is
>    normal')
>
> This will make it easy to query redmine in a way that returns a
> properly-ordered list, without some human having to go through and
> group-change tags on multiple issues at once.
>
> Would appreciate more eyes on this, and especially input on what I might
> have missed. We'd like to switch 'soon', so feedback before, say next
> Wednesday 15-APR would be great!
>
> Thanks,
> G
> --
> Grant Gainey
> Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat System Management Engineering
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