On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 09:53, Baptiste Mille-Mathias <baptiste.millemath...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Olav Vitters <o...@vitters.nl> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:44:32PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: >>> I think that, at the very least for GNOME 3.4 onwards, we should switch >>> to using a keyword in bugzilla, and the release-team, docs team and i18n >>> teams can monitor newly request breaks, through RSS feeds (the design >>> team does that), and get the keywords cleared when the freeze break has >>> a result. >> >> The Bugzilla way of doing this is to use flags. A flag is either defined >> for attachments _or_ (not and) bugs. This is possible on our currently >> bugzilla; we just do not use them. >> >> For flags you could have e.g. >> code_freeze_break flag >> string_freeze_break flag >> ui_freeze_break flag >> or perhaps just freeze_break (bit easier IMO) >> >> Flags can have 3 things: >> ? request it to be set >> - request denied >> + request approved >> >> Then there are settings to control: >> * who can request >> * who can approve/deny >> * who should be cc'ed on the request (release-team, etc) >> >> Drawbacks: >> * IMO UI is complicated and Bugzilla is slower than just email >> * I think only the request gets CC'ed to release-team. None of the >> following comments will be (AFAIK.. could be wrong) >> that would be pretty annoying >> * it is either + or -.. nothing about needing two approvals. Can be >> solved by using comments though (1st person says +1 in a comment; >> second sets the '+' on the flag). >> >> Flags have a lot of options, so above is my idea about how it should be >> used. Some of the stuff is IMO just confusing. > > As Bastien reported it is also hard to know we're currently on string > freeze period; would be possible to have some banner information > displayed in bugzilla for official modules during freeze stating the > current restriction ? There could be a shared calendar. I have my own to know when we release and when are we in string freeze and such. It's very easy.
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