Review of Fedora 18 Release Criteria

[Chris Murphy]

On Oct 10, 2012, at 4:36 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 22:08 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> On 10/10/2012 09:45 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> I think that way we could make the meetings more efficient without
>>> running the risk of missing proposals.
>> 
>> The most time in the meetings is to get people to ack/nack/patch...
> 
> [citation needed]
> 
> it should be easy to check that from logs, but I doubt it's really true,
> I expect the average time from propose #agreed to #agreed is pretty
> short.

Most of the time spend is reading the bug, understanding it, and trying to infer why it's a blocker (that is huge because most bugs don't explicitly make the case); including time spent by reviewers looking over the release criteria for explicit justification for blocking.

I agree with the idea that a blocker proposal tool is needed. The tool would be more soliciting of blockers on the one hand by reducing obscurity for proposing them; while also ensuring some minimum amount of justification for the proposal in the first place.


Chris Murphy