Proposed changes to workflow bug management

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday 27 May 2008 09:04, Emmet Hikory wrote:
> Stefan Potyra wrote:
> > actually I've been thinking about using nominations for FFe bugs and have
> > motu-release accept/decline these. Would this work?
>
>     While this seems very powerful for both freeze exceptions and
> stable release updates, unfortunately launchpad is unable to accept
> assignment for a yet unapproved task, and there is no means by which a
> member of ~ubuntu-dev may nominate a bug for a release without
> simultaneously approving the nomination.

Additionally, there's no way nominations can be unset once approved (this was 
discussed at UDS with some of the LP devs and they agreed it was "not the 
best" design - dunno if there's an actual bug on this).  Any workflow 
mechanism we use needs to be reversible.

Scott K