automatic promotion of freeze exceptions?

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 19:23 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
> Adam Williamson <awilliam <at> redhat.com> writes:
>  
> > On Sat, 2013-11-02 at 14:52 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
> > > Do we or should we have a policy of automatically promoting unfixed freeze
> > > exceptions from Alpha to Beta, or Beta to Final? The concept doesn't make
> > > sense for blockers, since those have to be fixed at each stage before going
> > > to the next, but FEs don't.
> > 
> > This comes up every so often, but there isn't an explicit policy either
> > way. In practice it does not happen because there is no process or
> > automated mechanism to make it happen.
> 
> I wasn't thinking of automation, just a documented process that would give
> an individual permission to manually move an Accepted Beta FE to an Accepted
> Final FE (for example), without having to have a dedicated discussion in a

Sorry, I should've completed my thought: to me, such a policy really
only makes sense if we apply it wholesale. Doing it piecemeal seems
unattractive to me, but that's just MHO.
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