Blockers in Bugfix-Releases (Re: [Release Planning 3.6] Samba 3.6.6 on May 31 (was May 24)?)

[Karolin Seeger]

On Fr, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:04:44 +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> On 06/22/2012 08:18 PM, Karolin Seeger wrote:
> > Hi Luk,
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 07:50:09PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> >> Hi Karolin
> >>
> >> On 06/22/2012 07:45 PM, Karolin Seeger wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 07:35:41AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> >>>> Quoting Karolin Seeger (kseeger at samba.org):
> >>>>
> >>>>> I don't think that this is neccessary, because
> >>>>> a) nobody is reading release notes and
> >>>>
> >>>> I strongly object to that..:-)
> >>>>
> >>>> Release Notes are the best helpers for me to decide if I can propose
> >>>> an update to our stable packages.
> >>>
> >>> that's what they are for. It's just my impression that administrators
> >>> often don't pay attention before updating/upgrading.
> >>>  
> >>>> Doing the same with Bugzilla is probably possible but is certainly a
> >>>> giant PITA. And this of course makes me understand why maintaining the
> >>>> release notes *is* a giant PITA for you, Karolin, of course..:-)
> >>>
> >>> Listing all open bugs in the release notes is not an option for me.
> >>> If anyone is willing to do that, please feel free.
> >>> That would take *a lot* of time and validation work.
> >>>  
> >>>>> b) that is what bugzilla is for.
> >>>>> I have no idea how long the release notes will be if I have to add each
> >>>>> existing bug. But if all of you agree, I will have to.
> >>>>
> >>>> At least, having the list of bugs fixed by a given release in the
> >>>> release notes would be helpful.
> >>>
> >>> I don't get what is missing right now.
> >>> As I have already pointed out at this year's SambaXP, the release notes
> >>> contain all older release note of the branch. So you can track down which
> >>> bug was fixed in which release. Please clarify what should be added.
> >>
> >> I don't think anything is missing for Christian's use case. Though it
> >> would be a shame if the info about the fixed bugs would go away. But
> >> that's not what others are implying I guess.
> > 
> > no, the fixed bugs won't go away, of course. The discussion is about adding a
> > list of known and unfixed bugs. 
> >  
> >> What could be useful to add is a short list of very important bugs that
> >> were considered, but were in the end not waited for that particular release.
> > 
> > Please see the "Major enhancements in Samba 3.x.y include:" section
> > in the release notes (not available for security releases). Sometimes it's
> > very difficult for me to create this list, but it should be what you are
> > asking for. Do you agree?
> 
> No, it's rather the 'Known issues' section which is also already covered :-)

Sorry, I just noticed that I misread your proposal. Of course, we can add
a heads-up for very important known but unfixed issues.

Thanks for your comments!

Cheers,
Karolin

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