On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 14:02 +0100, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > Do you mean the list of trackers - BetaBlocker,
FinalBlocker, BetaFE,
> > FinalFE, 0Day, PreviousRelease? I found them quite easy to remember, once
> > you vote in a few tickets.
>
> It's rather harder to keep them straight if you also have to deal with
> the similar-but-not-quite-the-same Bugzilla magic texts...
>
The only difference seems to be in FE vs FreezeException, and then in
having "AcceptedBlocker" in the Whiteboard instead of AcceptedBetaBlocker
and AcceptedFinalBlocker. Perhaps we could fix at least the latter in
Bugzilla? It is inconvenient anyway to not be able to distinguish Beta vote
from the Final one.
In Bugzilla it's redundant, though, and having the milestone in the
string could produce the hard-to-resolve paradox of a bug e.g. blocking
BetaBlocker but marked AcceptedFinalBlocker - what is blockerbugs
supposed to think of that?
That one we might just have to leave, I think. Note technically there's
nothing to fix in Bugzilla: these strings have no special meaning to
Bugzilla itself at all. The things that make them magic are:
1) The wiki policy pages
2) blockerbugs
3) Saved Bugzilla searches
> FWIW, I chose the long version for Bugzilla because it gives
someone
> who does not already know what an "FE" is a fighting chance of
> understanding what it means.
>
Yes, and it was the right choice. But in there we only type that once, and
in the voting ticket, we type that N times, where N is the number of
participants. And those participants quite likely know what's going on.
Similarly in IRC meetings, I don't remember anyone spelling out
"BetaFreezeException" in the long form when voting. So that's why I opted
for "FE".
Do you think it would be better to change BetaFE/FinalFE into
BetaFreezeException/FinalFreezeException instead, to keep consistency?
Or (and this might be actually a good idea! ;) ), should we start showing
the long form in the ticket description in the voting summary (i.e. people
not familiar with our process will still have a chance to understand the
voting summary), and allow people to submit their votes in both forms?
Yes. Same as the point below. There's no reason to be overly
prescriptive when accepting votes, if a string clearly and unmistakably
identifies a specific vote, we should take it.
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