Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2012-02-07 Thread Andre Klapper
of the request. After having talked to Olav Vitters at FOSDEM I (or we?) would like to propose using Bugzilla flags for freeze break requests in GNOME 3.5. Personally I consider keywords too cumbersome plus too easy to forget. Please also read Olav's initial comments on this thread again: https

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2012-02-07 Thread Bastien Nocera
about the freeze break request, or about the status of the request. After having talked to Olav Vitters at FOSDEM I (or we?) would like to propose using Bugzilla flags for freeze break requests in GNOME 3.5. Awesome! Personally I consider keywords too cumbersome plus too easy to forget

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-24 Thread Jorge González
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 09:53, Baptiste Mille-Mathias baptiste.millemath...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:44:32PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: I think that, at the very least for GNOME 3.4 onwards, we should

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-24 Thread F Wolff
Op Vr, 2011-09-23 om 10:11 +0200 skryf Jorge González: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 09:53, Baptiste Mille-Mathias baptiste.millemath...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:44:32PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: ... As

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:44:32PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: I think that, at the very least for GNOME 3.4 onwards, we should switch to using a keyword in bugzilla, and the release-team, docs team and i18n teams can monitor newly request breaks, through RSS feeds (the design team does

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-23 Thread Baptiste Mille-Mathias
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:44:32PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: I think that, at the very least for GNOME 3.4 onwards, we should switch to using a keyword in bugzilla, and the release-team, docs team and i18n teams can

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:11:13AM +0200, Jorge González wrote: There could be a shared calendar. I have my own to know when we release and when are we in string freeze and such. It's very easy. http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/schedule.ics webcal://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/schedule.ics

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-23 Thread Ross Burton
On 23 September 2011 08:40, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: The Bugzilla way of doing this is to use flags. A flag is either defined for attachments _or_ (not and) bugs. This is possible on our currently bugzilla; we just do not use them. For what it's worth this is exactly what we do in

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 09:57:15AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: On 23 September 2011 08:40, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: The Bugzilla way of doing this is to use flags. A flag is either defined for attachments _or_ (not and) bugs. This is possible on our currently bugzilla; we just do

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-23 Thread Ross Burton
On 23 September 2011 10:58, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: For what it's worth this is exactly what we do in MeeGo for distribution freezes and we find it works very well. Do you have multiple freezes? Do you use one flag or multiple? How do you handle multiple teams and e.g. one flag?

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-23 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 09:40 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:44:32PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: I think that, at the very least for GNOME 3.4 onwards, we should switch to using a keyword in bugzilla, and the release-team, docs team and i18n teams can monitor newly

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:51:04PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Here's the workflow with a keyword: 1. Developer adds a patch to an important bug, and realises that the patch needs to make it to stable during a freeze (possibly through a banner, auto-updated via ical) 2. Developer adds

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-23 Thread Dan Winship
On 09/23/2011 07:58 AM, Olav Vitters wrote: I think that will add too much burden on the people who have to approve? I don't track RSS at all. Release-team gets a lot of freeze breaks and I want to be notified immediately, not after a delay. I need to see the comments that other teams make

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-23 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 21:24 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 22:44 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: I think that, at the very least for GNOME 3.4 onwards, we should switch to using a keyword in bugzilla, and the release-team, docs team and i18n teams can monitor newly request

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-23 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi! Instead of keywords, we could just add bugzilla pseudo accounts for string-freeze-br...@gnome.bugs, ui-freeze-br...@gnome.bugs, code-freeze-br...@gnome.bugs. Then to request a break, just cc: the appropriate address on the bug along with a comment explaining why. Release/docs/i18n team

Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-22 Thread Bastien Nocera
Heya, After having to send in another code freeze break request e-mail, I realised that the process is problematic. Apart from the release team and the patch sender, nobody else knows about the freeze break request, or about the status of the request. I think that, at the very least for GNOME

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-22 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 22:44 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Heya, After having to send in another code freeze break request e-mail, I realised that the process is problematic. Apart from the release team and the patch sender, nobody else knows about the freeze break request, or about the

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-22 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: Heya, After having to send in another code freeze break request e-mail, I realised that the process is problematic. Apart from the release team and the patch sender, nobody else knows about the freeze break request, or

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-22 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 18:28 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: Heya, After having to send in another code freeze break request e-mail, I realised that the process is problematic. Apart from the release team and the

Re: Using Bugzilla for freeze break requests?

2011-09-22 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 22:44 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Heya, After having to send in another code freeze break request e-mail, I realised that the process is problematic. Apart from the release team and the patch sender, nobody else knows about the freeze break request, or about the