On Dec 3, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Tim Flink <tfl...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Affected Voters:
> - Do you vote on blocker status in bug comments?

Rarely. I agree with Kamil's comment that it makes bug reports less readable. 
It may also encourage conversations, turning the bug report into a giant email 
thread, ick.


> - Would you vote on blocker status more often if you could easily vote
>   outside of meetings?

I don't think so. On the one hand the meetings, even shortened, are quite long 
which is a disincentive to participation; on the other hand a specifically 
scheduled time makes me more likely to participate if I have the time/interest. 
An email thread becomes yet another pile of emails I'm inclined to ignore even 
if it's easier to participate.

Perhaps the solution to encourage participation by email is to limit it to 
controversial bugs, as suggested by Kamil.


> - Do you want to receive status updates on the bugs you vote on, even
>   if those status updates don't deal directly with blocker status?

No. Maybe 90+% of the bugs I vote on don't affect me, or minimally affect me. 
If I care about a bug I'm already on the bugzilla distribution for 
status/additional comments so I'll be notified if a change affects me.

> 
> Anyhow, helpful thoughts would be appreciated. Hopefully we can improve
> the process so that it's less painful for everyone and maybe even more
> useful (at the very least, less difficult to understand).

I think the release criteria needs to define which bugs can be determined 
entirely by QA to be blockers. A significant minority of bugs don't need to be 
voted on, when they obviously cause release criteria to not be met, for many 
users, and maybe another parameter or two go in there. If the bug is in that 
category, dink, it's a blocker and doesn't need to be voted on. I call this 
delegation to and trust in QA, and the process. So the process needs parameters 
to allow for this.


Chris Murphy
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