Release Targeting and Milestones

[Kate Stewart]

On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 08:53 -0800, Brian Murray wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 05:13:29PM -0600, Kate Stewart wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 14:36 -0800, Brian Murray wrote:
> > > 
> > > Bug tasks being targeted to the release (e.g. having a Natty task) and
> > > not being assigned to anyone.  The wiki page indicates that the tasks
> > > should have an assignee.  It is important for bugs to be on release
> > > team's radar especially if they don't have an assignee so I think the
> > > wiki page should be modified in this case.
> > 
> > If the actual assignee isn't known, I suggest that the team it likely
> > belongs to be flagged, so it shows up on some team's radar.  (Teams are
> > good at reassigning if it isn't in their problem space ;) )   Anything
> > that is release critical/high needs to have an owner/go to point.
> 
> In which case I'd like to change the language from:
> 
> "the nomination should not be accepted without finding someone to do the
> work on the bug."
> 
> to
> 
> "the nomination should not be accepted without assigning the bug task to
> a person or team."

Sounds fair to me.  At least that way the team knows what's in the queue
waiting, even if there is no one at that specific time able to work on
it.

Thanks!  Kate