Nope - you can use this flag for areas that don't have a dedicated QA owner. In 
the cases where there isn't a dedicated QA, I would flag down the QA lead who 
is overseeing the release currently (i.e. me for 2.0 & 2.1).

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kyle Huey" <[email protected]>
> To: "Jason Smith" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "dev-b2g" <[email protected]>, "dev-gaia" 
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2014 12:56:16 PM
> Subject: Re: qa-approval flag for indicating when QA signoff is needed before 
> landing or uplift
> 
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Jason  Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > QA has added a qa-approval flag to Bugzilla to allow someone to indicate if
> > a patch needs QA signoff before landing or uplift. You’ll be able to see
> > this flag under the details of a patch. Here are example situations on
> > when it would be useful to flag a patch for qa-approval:
> >
> > Uplift Example
> >
> > FMD patch lands on trunk. Dev wants uplift to 2.0. Release management
> > desires a signoff before uplift, so they flag qa-approval? to the FMD
> > tester to provide testing and signoff if testing passes for an uplift or
> > not.
> >
> > Patch Landing Example
> >
> > Vertical homescreen patch is put out for review, but desires QA testing
> > before it lands to ensure that we don’t have smoketest fallouts post
> > landing. The dev flags qa-approval? to the vertical homescreen tester to
> > provide testing and signoff if testing passes for a landing or not.
> >
> > Let me know if there are any questions or comments on the flag’s usage.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Jason Smith
> > _______________________________________________
> > dev-gaia mailing list
> > [email protected]
> > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-gaia
> 
> Is this only applicable to bugs related to features with a dedicated tester?
> 
> - Kyle
> 
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