Thanks Adam for putting this together. I am definitely+1 to extend the Blocker bug process with your proposal.
And there is one more topic related to this: how we should deal with 0day bugs found at the last moment before release ? Should not we have a statement for Accepted0Day and AcceptedPreviousRelease blockers saying that such bugs need to be verified and have enough karma before relevant Go/No-Go meeting ? My question is base on the experience we made during F26 release cycle, when we stopped already running mirroring of a release as we realized the 0day fix will not be ready at the release day. Having such a statement (and follow it) might save the effort especially RelEng is putting into the release activities after Go/No-Go meeting. Regards, Jan On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 3:01 AM, Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 17:48 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> Hi, folks! > > <snip> > > So there was some great feedback on the first version of this proposal; > here's the second draft, with all the suggestions considered and > applied. Note, given the misunderstanding between Kamil and Matt, I > added a little paragraph to specifically clarify that the list of > factors to consider really is just a list of things to *consider*, not > a checklist of criteria that we apply unthinkingly. > > As I explained in the first mail, the proposal is to add a section to > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process , called > "Exceptional cases", as a sub-section of the 'Reviewing blocker bugs' > section. Here is the revised proposal for how the new section should > read: > > ################## > > === Exceptional cases === > > Generally speaking, any bug that is agreed to be a violation of the > [[Fedora Release Criteria|release criteria]] should be accepted as a > blocker bug for the next relevant milestone release. > > However, as explained in the [[Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle|Fedora life > cycle page]] and the > [[Fedora_Release_Criteria#Release_Constraints|release criteria]], we > consider Fedora's release process not to be strictly based on time > ''or'' strictly based on quality, but to take both into consideration. > This can mean that, in some exceptional circumstances, we may agree > that a bug constitutes a sufficient violation of the release criteria > that it would ordinarily be accepted as a blocker bug for the next > milestone release, but in fact accept it as a blocker bug for a later > milestone release. > > There are currently two established circumstances in which this may > occur. > > Firstly, it may occur if it is agreed to be very unlikely that the bug > can be fixed within a reasonable time frame for the release to > be made. > > Secondly, it may occur if the bug is discovered and/or proposed as a > blocker very late in the release validation process. Sometimes, a > relatively less important blocker bug (such as a non-vital default > installed application on a release-blocking medium failing to run, for > instance) may only be found very near the end of the release validation > process, too late for it to be reasonably possible to fix it without > delaying the release. Again, we may make the determination that in such > a case it is preferable to go ahead with the release rather than delay > it to fix such a late-discovered bug. > > All such cases must be evaluated and discussed by the usual parties > (usually at a blocker bug review meeting) and all relevant factors must > be taken into account, much like the discussion of a bug that is a > 'conditional' violation of the release criteria. At least the following > will almost always be relevant: > > * The severity and likely prevalence of the bug > * Whether the bug could, or should, have been discovered and/or > proposed as a blocker earlier > * Whether the bug affects the existing stable releases (if it does, > there is generally less benefit to be had by delaying the new release) > * How long the release in question has already been delayed > * Whether delaying the release may give us an opportunity to carry out > other desirable work > * The possible effects of the expected delay (to Fedora itself, and > also to other things influenced by Fedora's schedules, including > downstream projects) > > Note that these factors should be carefully and intelligently > considered on a case-by-case basis. This isn't a checklist; we cannot > just say "oh, that bug existed in the previous release, therefore it's > not a blocker, done". It's just a list of some of the factors we > typically ''consider'' in making this determination. > > It is expected that in almost all 'exceptional' cases, the bug will be > accepted as a blocker either for the very next milestone release, or > for the equivalent milestone for the next release (e.g. if this > 'exceptional' provision is agreed to apply to a bug that otherwise > would have blocked {{FedoraVersion|long|next}} Final, it should be > accepted as a blocker either for {{FedoraVersion|long|next2}} Alpha or > {{FedoraVersion|long|next2}} Final). > > ################# > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora > http://www.happyassassin.net > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
