Re: Very happy with emacs-25 so far

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/19/2016 08:35 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> What is the purpose of marking them as blocking the release if we
> don't really mean that?

The list of blockers is mostly Glenn's reaction to bug reports (and 
thanks, Glenn!) that is not much trimmed later (and is now too long) 
because we lack development resources. If it's to be useful, someone 
(probably John) needs to go over it more carefully and figure out what 
is *really* a blocker.

For example, I just now reviewed Bug#20931, which Glenn filed and marked 
as a blocker on June 29 of last year, and then later that day wrote 
"maybe I should just get used to it (I don't know if it's worth a NEWS 
entry)". This doesn't appear to be a blocker, so I just now unblocked 
it. (I don't view it as a bug at all, for what that's worth.)

I expect there's a reasonable amount of low-priority stuff like this 
that is unnecessarily bulking up our blocking-bugs list. Which part is 
low-priority is debatable, which is why the list needs to be prioritized 
somehow.