I've talked about this before, but maybe the F26 cycle is time to make it happen. Right now, we have only one way of saying "this bug is important to the project as a whole; could we please get resources focused on it?" — and that way is to stop the whole vehicle until someone does something about it. This has always been kind of problematic, even though it has served well enough so far... but as we move to more deliverables and add things with different lifecycles, I think we need something else.
We have the Accepted Blockers <https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/milestone/25/final/buglist> list. The process is nicely documented at <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process>; please read that if you're not familiar. I propose we create a parallel "Critical Issues" list, using basically the same procedures. Issues eligible for this status would be those which do not necessarily fail a release criterion but which have critical impact on a Fedora Edition or on a council-approved Fedora Objective. Since Fedora is a volunteer process, this can't be backed by a hard mandate (like the "block the release!" emergency brake), but if we agree together to take it seriously, I think it will still provide a useful list. Anyone with a package or component involved in the issue will be able to see the impact, and take that into account when prioritizing. As FPL, it'd give me a nice overview of issues that might need extra resources or coordination. We could either implement this by extending the existing blocker bug process — adding a new tracker bug, add a new category in the blockerbug app, and review candidate issues at the normal blocker review meetings. Or, it could be done in parallel, with a separately-configured instance of the blockerbug app and with review in a separate meeting called as needed (or maybe just FESCo?) As with the existing Blocker or Freeze Exception levels, we could also introduce a second tier "Important Issues", which could have a wider net than the rules for "Critical Issues". I'm not sure about that. In any case, what do you all think? -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
