pushes to stable during freeze - process question

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:59:12 -0400 (EDT)
Kamil Paral <kparal at redhat.com> wrote:

> Quick question,
> 
> how do rel-eng guys know which updates are OK to push to stable
> during freeze and which are not? For example we have the final freeze
> now. Some packages like this:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-14932 are needed
> to be pushed to stable repo, so they have an exception from the
> freeze. Blocker and NTH updates have also exception from the freeze.
> But other packages may be also requesting push to stable and not be
> eligible for an exception. How do the rel-eng guys know which
> packages to push and which not to?

QA files a ticket for each compose before it's made (ie, "we need
another RC" or 'We need another TC'). In this ticket are listed the
updates that are needed to be allowed into stable or used for the
compose. 

So for example: 

https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4951

kevin
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