Freezing at Zero Beta Blockers

[Damon Sicore]

All,

To clarify when we are freezing: Once we reach zero beta blockers,
we will freeze for beta.

Currently there are 15 platform beta blockers:

http://tinyurl.com/34xe45

And, as of this writing, 27 remaining Firefox beta 1 blockers:

http://people.mozilla.org/~dsicore/bz/

(Just click the link in that page for the list of front end bugs
remaining. URL was too long for tinurl. :-/ ).

To give you an idea of our fix rate, we are down from 21 to 15 on
platform, and down from ~54 on Firefox since the beginning of the
week. I know that 3 of those platform bugs will be closed within the
next couple of hours as well.

Cheers,

Damon

[Dave Townsend]

What about all the blockers still targetted at M8, should we not be
considering those beta blockers?

[Damon Sicore]

The component drivers tried to identify all bugs which would block
the beta release. They then re-targeted those bugs to M9. The M9
milestone is only the mechanism to track those bugs. A bug can have
any milestone, but that does not preclude it blocking or not blocking
the beta until it is identified as so.

Hopefully this helps?

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[Dave Townsend]

Damon Sicore wrote:
>
> On Oct 23, 2007, at 5:05 AM, Dave Townsend wrote:
>
>> Damon Sicore wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> To clarify when we are freezing: Once we reach zero beta blockers, we
>>> will freeze for beta.
>>>
>>> Currently there are 15 platform beta blockers:
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/34xe45
>>>
>>> And, as of this writing, 27 remaining Firefox beta 1 blockers:
>>>
>>> http://people.mozilla.org/~dsicore/bz/
>>>
>>> (Just click the link in that page for the list of front end bugs
>>> remaining. URL was too long for tinurl. :-/ ).
>>>
>>> To give you an idea of our fix rate, we are down from 21 to 15 on
>>> platform, and down from ~54 on Firefox since the beginning of the week.
>>> I know that 3 of those platform bugs will be closed within the next
>>> couple of hours as well.
>>
>> What about all the blockers still targetted at M8, should we not be
>> considering those beta blockers?
>
> The component drivers tried to identify all bugs which would block the
> beta release. They then re-targeted those bugs to M9. The M9 milestone
> is only the mechanism to track those bugs. A bug can have any
> milestone, but that does not preclude it blocking or not blocking the
> beta until it is identified as so.
>
> Hopefully this helps?

Helps, it's just a little confusing. Maybe all the M8 targetted bugs
should be retargeted to M10 or later, or even just -- to make the point
they aren't getting in for M9.