Re: Getting serious about releasing

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 19:08, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > If we plan to release in the next decade, it's time to punt bugs.  My
> > professional opinion is that the current must-fix bugzilla query
> > contains a whole lot of bugs that need punting in order to
> > realistically make any release dates.
> > 
> > I've spent the last 3 hours going through the whole must-fix list in
> > bugzilla and splitting it into puntable and not puntable. My list is
> > appended.
> > 
> > It's sort of a judgment call which bugs can be punted, but 
> > I promise you have to punt on the scale of the appended punt-list or
> > we may as well go ahead and update the schedule to show a release in
> > September or later. Seriously.
> > 
> > So, if you think a bug I listed should really not be punted, either a)
> > fix it right away b) suggest a bug that I have as not puntable that
> > you'd punt instead or c) have the guts to go ahead and argue for a
> > September or later release. Please don't do c). ;-)
> > 
> > Luis I think we really need this reflected in bugzilla; whatever
> > criteria we currently have for the must-fix list is too loose. We need
> > a way to mark genuine showstoppers. Suggestions?
> > 
> 
> Well, we don't presently appear to have any must-fix bugs at all - no bugs
> have the MUSTFIX keyword set. Other than that, only "blocker" (if bugs
> aren't blocker level then they obviously aren't important enough) bugs
> should get considered. People really should go in and mark bugs they think
> are not puntable as NEEDFIX so that the more important of those got
> promoted to MUSTFIX (as a side effect, we would also get a good basis of
> what should happen by 2.0.1).
> 
> As for what/how NEEDFIX and MUSTFIX are, see the keyword descriptions in
> bugzilla.

So I'm busy right now so I can't respond to this in detail but NO. There
was extensive discussion in January about why NEEDFIX and MUSTFIX are
not a good idea and they overlap with everything else. Please don't go
in setting these yourself.

Luis [an actually constructive email is planned for later this evening]