How to get a bug milestoned for a release?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 08:34:14PM +0200, Wouter Stomp wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering what it takes to get a bug milestoned for an ubuntu
> release. I filed a bug that is a serious regression from feisty making
> ubuntu completely unusable on some ATI graphics cards. I thought this
> was serious enough to be important to be fixed before final release.
> 
> What I did:
> 
> - Filed a bug (
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/133192
> )
> - Subscribed the Ubuntu X team
> - Provided all needed info
> - Bug was filed upstream too
> - Confirmed by several people
> - Filed at the iso tracker several times
> - Nominated for gutsy in launchpad
> - Subscribed ubuntu-release
> - Emailed a member of the release team in response to an email asking
> for bugs that should be milestoned
> - Mentioned in a forum thread asking for release blocking bugs
> 
> When I looked up the irclogs of the distroteam meeting a few days ago,
> I was suprised this bug wasn't even mentioned. It hasn't been
> milestoned for gutsy either.
> 
> It is probably too late now to get fixed, but I was wondering if I
> should have done anything different or if this bug just isn't grave
> enough to be fixed before release?

This does sound like a serious bug, though unfortunately the problem isn't
clear yet.  The relevant developers are already aware of this bug, but do
not yet know what is causing it.  We can't reasonably discuss what to do
about this bug until we have a possible course of action.

It sounds like you did the right things, except that the people involved
don't have enough information to take a decision about it at present.  You
should have received a response from the release team to that effect.

-- 
 - mdz