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Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution]
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution] |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Sep 2017 09:55:28 +0300 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:32:48 -0700
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > If this bug is indeed deemed
> > urgent by the community, it will be fixed very soon, and in that case
> > blocking the next release, which will not happen tomorrow or the next
> > week, is meaningless. OTOH, if the bug will remain unfixed till we
> > are ready to release Emacs 26.1, in, like, 6 months, then it means
> > fixing it is not deemed important, and blocking the release for it
> > makes no sense.
>
> A similar argument could be applied to any blocking bug
No, it cannot. The point is that marking bugs as blocking and their
urgency are two different and almost independent issues.
> so why bother to mark any bug as blocking?
Because it helps in management of a release. It's a managerial tool.
- Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution], (continued)
- Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution], Eli Zaretskii, 2017/09/06
- Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution], Paul Eggert, 2017/09/07
- Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution], John Wiegley, 2017/09/07
- Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution], Eli Zaretskii, 2017/09/07
- Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution], Paul Eggert, 2017/09/07
- Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution],
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution], Paul Eggert, 2017/09/08
- Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution], Fabrice Popineau, 2017/09/08
- Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution], Óscar Fuentes, 2017/09/08
- Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution], Richard Stallman, 2017/09/09
- Re: release bugs [was Re: Processed: enriched.el code execution], Fabrice Popineau, 2017/09/09
- Re: enriched.el code execution, Reiner Steib, 2017/09/07
- Re: enriched.el code execution, Paul Eggert, 2017/09/07