On 1:59 PM, Eric Niebler wrote:
On 10/25/2010 6:41 AM, Jim Bell wrote:
So all agree that the 1.45 blockers report needs to be changed, at least to remove the milesone. No, I object. That list represents bugs that the release managers have deemed important.
I'm not convinced of that, particularly in light of the milestone filter being as narrow as it is. I don't see evidence that anyone has reviewed most of the showstoppers, particularly those missed by the current filter. Further, this suggests that release managers deliberately left showstopping tickets open for previous revisions. Really? Demoting a ticket's severity from showstopper would constitute evidence that it's been reviewed, but the fact that all these exist suggests that they haven't. Of the five tickets marked showstopper for 1.43 (3892, 3967, 4065, 4097, 4266), none show any change to their severity, so they were set by their originator (a "random boost user"), neither closed nor modified by a release manager, and 1.43 was released. Any objective observer would conclude that they simply got missed.
The bugs that random boost users deem important is less interesting.
Agreed.
Would it be nice to go through all the bugs and make sure they're categorized correctly? You bet. Would I hold up 1.45 for it? Nope.
We seem to agree that a release manager (or a library's author?) should go through at least the showstoppers and demote their severity. (Yes?) But that still lets random boost users deem the importance of the non-showstoppers, which doesn't seem right either. Unless they get reviewed. 1.44 has problems, and I'm convinced that the quality of 1.45 is more important than it's timely release.