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.