On Tue, 2012-12-04 at 08:22 -0500, Kamil Paral wrote:
> Affected Voters:
> - Do you vote on blocker status in bug comments?
If necessary, but I don't like it much. In my experience the
discussion in the meeting is often very helpful to understand the
nature of the bug, and it can shift my opinion substantially.
Also I don't like spamming bugzilla with irrelevant data. It makes the
whole bug report less readable.
>
> - Would you vote on blocker status more often if you could easily
> vote
> outside of meetings?
If we are not in a rush, I'd keep everything in the meeting. If we are
in a rush (like now), I'd move some "obvious" (or controversial, those
might be good candidates too) items outside of the meeting, but not
into the bugzilla. An email thread on the test list is much better. It
can contain long discussion without obfuscating bugzilla. Bugzilla can
contain just a single comment with a hyperlink to the discussion, so
that anyone interested can join. Once consensus is reached on the
list, one of QA guys can update bugzilla status.
There is one important drawback, and that is the necessity to be
subscribed to the list.
I think this is an interesting idea, but aside from the drawbacks
someone else noted (blocker voting is not QA-only), I see another: our
current mailing list archive kinda sucks and is a pain to read a long
thread on. If we get the shiny new one Mo is designing this might become
a moot point, but right now I'd rather read even a messy bugzilla report
than a long ML thread via our mail archives.
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