On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:02:09AM +0200, Kamil Paral wrote:
But all of that above is a separate problem. What I'd like to
understand is
why you think existing bugs should be treated differently from new bugs.
What is the rationale? And if you want to treat them differently, then how?
I think they're *clearly* different when it comes to delaying the
release. If a bug is not currently affecting anyone, delaying stops it
from becoming a user problem. If a bug is already a user problem,
delaying doesn't help those people — and just hurts everyone else who
would benefit from the release.
Because if we accept new problem A as a blocker, but waive problem B
because it has already existed for some time, even though they have
completely equal impact on users, then without any other means to push for
B resolution during the lifetime of the fedora release, it's very likely
that the problem will not get fixed. Do you see PrioritizedBugs as an
efficient way to help this? Or something else?
Prioritized Bugs is one avenue. I'm open to other suggestions. I think
in general packagers and maintainers *do* care about the kinds of bugs
that are likely to be in this situation.
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader