OFBIZ-3912 is a good example of an issue that is critical to an individual 
rather than the community I think.  A good indicator is that it has been broken 
for 5 months before being reported, can't be that critical then huh?

Regards
Scott

On 31/08/2010, at 9:45 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

> Scott Gray wrote:
>> A blocking bug IMO is nothing more than the community (rather than an 
>> individual) deciding that a bug is important enough that a
>> release shouldn't occur until it is fixed.  I don't think we need any 
>> criteria other than that really. 
> 
> Yes that's fine to me. And a critical (for instance at 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3912)?
> 
> Jacques
>> Regards
>> Scott
>> On 31/08/2010, at 9:09 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>> Hey Scott, that's right!
>>> Happy to close this one. So eventually you were right, there are ANY 
>>> blocking bugs in OFBiz under our criteria ;o)
>>> Though I guess we should better define our criteria for blocking. Because 
>>> if we allow to use blocking only for bugs blocking all
>>> OFBiz there should be hardly any such bugs. I mean it would be very, very 
>>> quickly fixed and we would have hardly the time to
>>> create a blocking bug. Notbaly because we have now BuildBot running and all 
>>> commiters are quickly aware of any errors they
>>> woulds have made. Did you thought about it Scott, what is your perception?  
>>>  Thanks
>>> Jacques
>>> Scott Gray wrote:
>>>> Hi Jacques,
>>>> I thought you fixed OFBIZ-3837 recently?  Or was that some other shipping 
>>>> estimate problem you were working on?
>>>> Regards
>>>> Scott
>>>> On 31/08/2010, at 7:52 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
>>>>> There are currently 275 UNRESOLVED bugs, 11 have patches available, 14 
>>>>> are reopened.
>>>>> This is againt all versions. There are only 78 for trunk but this is not 
>>>>> a reliable criteria (if any are)
>>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-3837 is marked as blocking. 
>>>>> But I guess not under Scott's criteria (it's not
>>>>> blocking OFBiz, just blocking a part of it, so it's critical actually) 4 
>>>>> are critical and 173 major
>>>>> No needs to say that any help to clean things would be really 
>>>>> appreciated...
>>>>> HTH
>>>>> Jacques
>>>>> From: "BJ Freeman" <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Quick scan of Jira shows 4 open bugs not counting mine.
>>>>>> =========================
>>>>>> BJ Freeman  <http://bjfreeman.elance.com>
>>>>>> Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation  
>>>>>> <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=52>
>>>>>> Specialtymarket.com  <http://www.specialtymarket.com/>
>>>>>> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist
>>>>>> Chat  Y! messenger: bjfr33man
>>>>>> BJ Freeman sent the following on 8/30/2010 10:17 PM:
>>>>>>> Actually I meant a response to it like there are no bugs that fit this
>>>>>>> condition.
>>>>>>> =========================
>>>>>>> BJ Freeman <http://bjfreeman.elance.com>
>>>>>>> Strategic Power Office with Supplier Automation
>>>>>>> <http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=52>
>>>>>>> Specialtymarket.com <http://www.specialtymarket.com/>
>>>>>>> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist
>>>>>>> Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man
>>>>>>> Scott Gray sent the following on 8/30/2010 10:12 PM:
>>>>>>>> You missed something by reading an email from a community member and
>>>>>>>> interpreting it's contents as some sort of official policy.
>>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>>> Scott
>>>>>>>> On 31/08/2010, at 5:07 PM, BJ Freeman wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I was reffering to this:
>>>>>>>>> On 07/29/2010 01:53 AM, Ean Schuessler wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> I guess the basic questions might be: Did we have an official 
>>>>>>>>>> "freeze"
>>>>>>>>>> process where we only accepted bug fixes against that branch? Do we
>>>>>>>>>> have
>>>>>>>>>> any open bugs that are considered "release critical"?
>>>>>>>>> I agree. At least *all* bugs should be looked at, and given a target
>>>>>>>>> release tag, etc. Time for some bug triage. I don't think there has
>>>>>>>>> been a concerted effort like that in like, forever.
>>>>>>>>> I have not seen anything that shows this as taken care of.
>>>>>>>>> Have I missed something?
>>>>>>>>> =========================
>>>>>>>>> BJ Freeman<http://bjfreeman.elance.com>
>>>>>>>>> Strategic Power Office with Supplier
>>>>>>>>> Automation<http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation/viewforum.php?f=52>
>>>>>>>>> Specialtymarket.com<http://www.specialtymarket.com/>
>>>>>>>>> Systems Integrator-- Glad to Assist
>>>>>>>>> Chat Y! messenger: bjfr33man
>>>>>>>>> David E Jones sent the following on 8/30/2010 9:47 PM:
>>>>>>>>>> On Aug 30, 2010, at 10:38 PM, BJ Freeman wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> There are a number of bugs that have to be resolved before release
>>>>>>>>>>> remember this is a volunteer effort so there is no full time person
>>>>>>>>>>> doing the patches for the bugs.
>>>>>>>>>> What are you basing this on?
>>>>>>>>>>> once they are completed and testing has been done then there will
>>>>>>>>>>> be a release.
>>>>>>>>>>> right now we are about 4 months past the planned release date.
>>>>>>>>>> What are you basing this on? Maybe there is some confusion... the
>>>>>>>>>> date on a release is the date it was branched from the trunk, not
>>>>>>>>>> the date that a binary release is done from the branch.
>>>>>>>>>> -David
>>>>>>>>>>> Matt Warnock sent the following on 8/30/2010 9:27 PM:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks. Is 10.04 nearing release? Is there an expected release 
>>>>>>>>>>>> date?
>>>>>>>>>>>> Just curious.
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