[Test-Announce] 2015-01-05 @16:00 UTC - Fedora QA Meeting

[Sudhir Dharanendraiah]

----- Adam Williamson <adamwill at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
| On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 22:47 +0530, Sudhir Dharanendraiah wrote:
| > On 01/05/2015 10:18 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
| > > In*theory*, if a bug's rejected as a blocker for one release it 
| > > won't be a blocker for the next release either - remember Fedora 
| > > doesn't use the RHEL system where bugs can be dropped as blockers 
| > > for time reasons, in the Fedora system blockers are supposed to be
| > > unconditional. In practice we handwave a bit, but it's still 
| > > generally the case that rejected blockers for one release won't be 
| > > accepted for the next.
| > 
| > Ah.. understood. thanks :)
| > 
| > > Bugzilla doesn't make it super easy to find rejected blockers for a
| > > specific release, as you can't search for bugs which*once*  
| > > blocked another bug but don't any more (bit of a shame) - but 
| > > here's an approximate search, for open bugs filed in 2014 that 
| > > have the 'RejectedBlocker' whiteboard:
| > 
| 
| > Yeah, dependent on whiteboard. Alternatively, we can use tracker 
| > bugs for the various stages (Alpha/Beta/Final) of release. That can 
| > provide a
| > tree view of bugs (can be blocker bugs in this case) targeted  for 
| > that specific milestone and the ones closed will strike out leaving 
| > the ones that got dropped.
| > 
| 
| That's the system we do use, but the problem is that when we reject a 
| bug as a blocker, we do it by making it not block the tracker bug any 
| more. So to find those bugs, you'd need to do a search for 'bugs which 
| blocked F21AlphaBlocker / F21BetaBlocker / F21FinalBlocker once, but 
| don't any more', but Bugzilla doesn't have that option.
| 
| We *could* make it so bugs that are rejected as blockers still block 
| the tracking bug (but just have the 'RejectedBlocker' whiteboard field 
| added), but I think that'd be confusing and a bad idea.

Oh yes, its a bad idea to keep them in that state forever :). I was only suggesting to keep the bugs till it is reviewed. But anyway, since blockers are not pushed because of time constraint, that would make no difference either.

Regards,
Sudhir

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