Re: Blockers (was Re: [Issue 3001])

2009-06-23 Thread Kagamin
Stewart Gordon Wrote:

 I can see there being at least three possible levels to distinguish in 
 defining what a blocker is:
 
 - blocks development of DMD
 - blocks development of derivative works of DMD and/or third-party compilers
 - blocks use of D or DMD
 
 Maybe there are others
 
 Stewart.

Blocker blocks usage of software. In the case of compiler it blocks development 
with this compiler. Release blockers are marked differently, see d1.0blocker 
flag in bug 340. Or you can create release RFE and mark bugs blocking it.


Re: Blockers (was Re: [Issue 3001])

2009-06-12 Thread Stewart Gordon

Matti Niemenmaa wrote:
snip
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/page.cgi?id=fields.html#importance says 
[b]locks development and/or testing work. It's not entirely clear 
whether that refers to DMD development or development of anything else 
using DMD.

snip

I can see there being at least three possible levels to distinguish in 
defining what a blocker is:


- blocks development of DMD
- blocks development of derivative works of DMD and/or third-party compilers
- blocks use of D or DMD

Maybe there are others

Stewart.