On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 13:56 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Kamil Paral wrote:
> So we could ignore freeze just for packages not being on any install
> medium. But then I'm not sure how much that is helpful and it might be
> difficult to implement this in Bodhi.
In the old manual process, I just had to ask rel-eng and they'd blanket-OK
freeze overrides for such packages (with the same arguments as yours, i.e.,
it cannot really break anything).
Yes - and that frequently went wrong. That's precisely why we ditched
that process and came up with a better one, where the decision isn't
made on-the-fly by whoever happens to be reading the tickets in releng,
but is made according to an established process, by a sensible group of
stakeholders, with proper tracking and a paper trail.
These days, such freeze override requests
get blanket-rejected instead (because it doesn't make much of a difference,
so they don't see any reason to make exceptions to the processes).
Nothing gets blanket rejected. Each FE proposal is evaluated
individually on its merits.
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