[cle-release-team] Blocker or Critical?

[Noah Botimer]

Well, we often use Blocker as a shorthand for "we really think this should be in the release". That's fine and we don't need to rehash all of how the JIRA priority values are really more like severity, but having two fields is more confusing than helpful. Or the various Fix/Target version iterations. 

Experience tells us it's going to be a little loose no matter what. I was just recalling one imperfect attempt to put some objective criteria on the levels for comparison with this issue.

Call it Critical or call it Blocker. Mark a 2.9.1 Fix version or not. My opinion is that we should not consider it a 2.9.0 Blocker in that it would, by itself necessitate another RC. Let's just try to make sure it gets attention before the next tag (rc3 or 2.9.1).

Thanks,
-Noah

On Oct 27, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Neal Caidin <nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org> wrote:

> Awesome, thanks. So it sounds like this would not normally be considered a  blocker anyway, regardless of release timing?
> 
> I'm feeling like there is momentum to start defining a 2.9.1 release (well, at least talking to Matt J. and Aaron Z.). Let's get 2.9.0 out and then we can start that discussion!
> 
> - Neal
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Noah Botimer <botimer at umich.edu> wrote:
> Sounds right to me, unless someone like Rutgers says this is an extreme instructional issue. Remember, our criteria for Blocker have to do with data loss, complete breakage, nasty security risks, etc.
> 
> I'm personally hoping for a very quick 2.9.1. I've been in release candidate paralysis for some time now. I'm anxious to solve some CKEditor issues but they can't hold up the release.
> 
> This is partly an excuse (I can work in trunk and branches), but I don't want this stuff to hang in limbo forever. If it's too long between work/merge, stuff gets dropped or mangled.
> 
> Ship it, fix it, ship it.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Noah
> 
> On Oct 27, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Neal Caidin <nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm not sure if this should be a critical or a blocker. Since we are so close to the release of 2.9.0 , I've classified this as a critical. Does that sound right?
> >
> > https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/LSNBLDR-137 - Lessons: Assignment saved as draft counts as being submitted
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Neal Caidin
> >
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> -- 
> Neal Caidin
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