Blocker process: tracker bug / whiteboard naming proposal

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Tue Jan 22 09:21:09 UTC 2013


> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:57:12 -0600,
>    Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >Proposing a small refinement: we apply the release specific alias
> >names
> >to the old trackers after each release. So right now the F19 bugs
> >would
> >be AlphaBlocker, AlphaFreezeException etc: when F19 goes out, we
> >transfer those aliases to the F20 bugs, and make the F19 bugs
> >F19AlphaBlocker, F19AlphaFreezeException etc. We can even apply this
> >retroactively all the way back through the bug database (add those
> >aliases to the old bugs) so we can always find the trackers for any
> >release via the same format.
> 
> I think you want to do the numbered aliases at the start of the
> cycle, not
> at the end. That way people can use the numbers consisantly while
> including
> the develoment release. (This might make scripting easier.)

Sounds good.

As for the whiteboard labels, to keep things consistent, we can use:

AcceptedBlocker
RejectedBlocker
AcceptedFreezeException
RejectedFreezeException

The latter is a bit long though, any other proposals?


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