Fedora 14 Blocker Bugs + Review Meeting 2010-10-08 @ 16:00 UTC (12 PM EST)

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 18:05 -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 17:53 -0400, John Poelstra wrote:
> > --If you are the OWNER of one of these bugs, PLEASE add a comment to the 
> > bug letting us know how things are going and what you are planning to do 
> > next.  I
> 
> > 639730 :: MODIFIED :: empathy :: bdpepple at gmail.com :: Empathy fails to 
> > connect to Google Talk :: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639730
> 
> This bug shouldn't have been marked as a blocker since it's doesn't meet
> the criteria for being a blocker. I've gone ahead and removed the
> blocker.

This isn't generally how we do things. We encourage people to mark bugs
as blockers; this constitutes *nominating* the bug as a blocker, it
makes it pop up for review at a blocker review meeting. We then usually
determine whether or not the bug meets the criteria during the review
meeting, collaboratively between...well, theoretically between qa,
releng and devel, practically between whoever shows up for the review
meeting. :) We would then give it the whiteboard field AcceptedBlocker
if we accepted it, or remove the Blocks: field and add the whiteboard
field RejectedBlocker if we rejected it.

It's not a big deal in this case as I'm pretty sure we'd vote against it
being a blocker at the meeting, but just mentioning the procedure.
Unfortunately the whole process isn't currently documented on the wiki,
but I have a draft SOP documenting it under review at present:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process_nth_draft

of course, it really helps if devs who have bugs nominated (or accepted)
as blockers can come to the blocker review meetings and help with the
discussion of those bugs. (The blocker reviews take place Fridays in
#fedora-bugzappers ).

so generally it probably works best if you just add a comment in the bug
saying you'd vote against it being a blocker, and if you have the time,
come along to the review meeting and join in the discussion there. For
this bug it's no biggie though, I think we're fine with it not being a
blocker.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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