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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] process for getting bugfixes and security updates into stable grimoire
  • Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 13:03:43 -0700

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 08:33:25PM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> as the process of how to get fixes into stable(-rc) grimoire apparently
> isn't clear to everyone, here's how I think the process should be.
> This is mostly a draft to get comments, but we definitely need some
> policy like this to ensure stable is as stable as we can get it.
> This isn't really anything new, just a clarification of how the process
> is supposed to work, extending it to security updates.
>
> - a new flag "integrate to stable-rc" will get added to bugzilla
> - bugs get filed against the highest grimoire in the stability range
> that they apply to, i.e. first to stable, then stable-rc, then test
> - bugs get fixed _only_ in test grimoire as usual
> - once they're fixed in test, the "fixed in lesser branch" flag is set
> to "+", and the "integrate to $BRANCH" flags are set to "?" for the
> branches they apply to
> - one of the gatekeepers (currently Eric Sandall, Seth Woolley and
> myself) approves or denies the request(s) for integration, if it's
> denied, an explanation of the reasons is added to the bug

I think there needs to be a clarification that the person requesting
the integration and the gatekeeper be different people. So a gatekeeper
can't approve their own request.

-Andrew


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