Proposal: Target tracker bugs

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Wed Mar 24 17:51:25 UTC 2010



On Mar 24, 2010, at 10:46, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 08:37 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
>> My worry is the size of the target trackers, and our ability to
>> appropriately manage them.  We're already running into this with the
>> Alpha/Beta blocker list, maintainers don't know for sure if the bug  
>> has
>> been "accepted" as a blocker or not.  Since anybody can make the bug
>> blocking relationship, there is that period of uncertainty and doubt.
>>
>> As much as I'd hate to move to using flags of some kind, I really do
>> think there is room to distinguish between a /proposed/ blocker or
>> target bug and an /accepted/ blocker or target bug.  Either a flag  
>> that
>> goes from ? to + or a keyword added by one of us during our blocker
>> review meetings, it should be really lightweight, no where close to  
>> the
>> 3 ack system RHT uses for RHEL stuff.
>>
>> ... discuss?
>
> In the interest of simplicity and not having to revise a bunch of
> pages :), how about we just add a comment to any bug that's accepted  
> as
> a blocker during a review meeting?
>
> We already add a comment to any bug that's *rejected* as a blocker to
> explain why we're rejecting it, so this would match that quite nicely.
> -- 
>

That works somewhat but is not queryable.

--
Jes


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