F22 blocker/freeze exception review: on-list? in-bug? special meeting?

Eli Wapniarski eli at orbsky.homelinux.org
Tue May 19 16:25:17 UTC 2015


On Tuesday 19 May 2015 19:58:32 Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 05/19/15 19:16, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On 19 May 2015 at 01:07, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> >> Glenn Holmer wrote:
> >>> I agree that session restore has minimal impact on a live CD. The
> >>> bigger issue, though, is that it's prominently visible in the main menu
> >>> ("Save Session"), but is just plain broken. This reflects badly on
> >>> Plasma 5 as a whole, and by extension, on the Fedora spin.
> >> 
> >> You have a good point there: "Save Session" is a menu entry, and there is
> >> a
> >> blocker criterion saying that any non-working menu entry is a release
> >> blocker for Fedora. Therefore, this bug ought to be considered not only a
> >> freeze exception, but even a blocker!
> > 
> > Actually it's not clear whether the problem is with the session save
> > or the session restore. If the latter, a pedant might argue that
> > there's no issue with the menu entry :)
> 
> For lack of a better word, I find it "hypocritical" that a feature not
> working but having a menu entry would be considered for blocker/freeze
> exception yet the same basic feature (restore previous session) not working
> would not receive the same consideration only due to the fact that it is
> configured totally in "system settings".

The word your looking for is inconsistent :)

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