On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Some IRC discussion triggered this thought: > > Should we document our formal release criteria? By that, I mean - > should we document the criteria that we use to claim that we are in a > position to cut an actual Release Candidate for voting? >
YES!!! > I realized that I've had my own view sitting in my head, but obviously > that means that nobody else knows it! > > Thoughts about what our criteria should be? > > Here's what's in my head: > > No Blocker Bugs outstanding > No Critical Bugs outstanding (unless there is a work-around, and only < > 5 like that) So define for me what is a blocker and critical. I have my own internal definition, but if we have a standard that says 'no blocker and critical bugs' then we are just doing blind queries against Jira and maybe even changing the value on a bug so we can be releasable. > Builds all work > Packaging all works for the selected OS's > Docs and Translation updates checked in > >
