Release criteria proposal: conflicts / dependencies

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:34:26AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> James Laska (jlaska at redhat.com) said: 
> > I'm not in favor of this criteria addition at this time.  I'd love to
> > see this happen, but I don't think it's realistic at this stage in the
> > release or in this forum (F-14).  Can we have more input from devel +
> > rel-eng who initially proposed the change?
> 
> I'd be willing to extend/change this such that:
> 
> - Trees are tested for broken dependencies
> - All broken dependencies are filed
> - These tickets are attached to the nice-to-have tracker
> 
> We can work towards the point where the third bullet here is changed
> to 'the blocker tracker', but if we can't do that now, I would still
> like to *track* the problem.

This seems like an excellent compromise to me, and we should pursue a
more stringent requirement for F15 if people are amenable to that.

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