Re: Release 4.2 Kickoff

[LachlanA]

John W. Eaton wrote
> On 06/28/2016 03:03 AM, LachlanA wrote:
>>
>> That also excludes those without maintainer permissions from the triage
>> process.
> 
> That might not be a bad thing.
> 
> I don't think it's productive if the list just fills with a lot of 
> requests along the lines of "This bug is really important to me!!!  Fix 
> it before the release!!!"

That is a valid point, but I don't think Joe Average will even find the Wiki
page.  We can always revert a small number of changes. 

There are very many regular and serious contributors to the bug tracker who
don't have symbols next to their names, and I assume that means they can't
edit the severity field.

Once the initial triage is done, in a week or less, then we can certainly
lock in the decisions on Savannah so we don't have a moving target.

I've already taken a pass of "crash" and "configure and build".  I copied
everything from Savannah, and then extracted those that seem candidate
blockers.  Perhaps those on this list who can't edit the severity field on
Savannah can have their say before the weekend.

BTW, searching Savannah for "patch submitted" misses a lot of bugs with
submitted patches that haven't yet been noticed.  IMHO, Savannah isn't
suited to having ~100 open bug reports per developer.  (Nor is a Wiki, of
course :)

Cheers,
Lachlan



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