[Cosmo-dev] Bug Council process for Cosmo

[Ted Leung]

Ok,

So I saw 2 +1's, a "sounds fair", and a "sounds great".   Anybody  
wanna toss a final +1 just so we can dot all the i's?

On Feb 8, 2007, at 5:36 PM, Ted Leung wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> This came up several times today in IRC, and in fact over the last  
> few days, where we are finding various small bugs.   Some of these  
> bugs are code level fixes only, and others are small, easy to fix  
> and low impact.   It seems wasteful to have developers waiting  
> until the bug council can meet, even if the bug council is meeting  
> the next day.   I'd like to propose a way to make the bug council  
> process a little more lightweight and less reliant on a synchronous  
> meeting.
>
> Bugs can be marked as blocking if myself, and someone from QA  
> (anyone from QA) can be convinced that the bug should be a  
> blocker.   If we feel that the bug may impact end user or product  
> level features, then we will involve someone from PPD and/or Jared  
> before granting blocking status.
> Discussion of such bugs can occur in any medium, although an  
> archived medium such as e-mail or IRC is preferred.
>
> These bugs should be tracked like any other bug -- that is, no  
> checkin without a bug number.  If discussion of the bug took place  
> in IRC, then the bug report should note that the discussion  
> happened, summarize the reasoning  (ideally it would link to the  
> appropriate section of the IRC log, but this is not mandatory) and  
> list the names of the people who approved blocking status.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ted
>
>
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