185565 - Add link to process-description how you deal with RFEs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Ralf Hauser]

It would be great to know what happens if somebody adds an enhancement request:
Who will decide what feature gets in and in which priority order, etc.? What is
the importance of number of votes in this process, etc. ...?

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Matthew is still going to be around to help out, but Jake is taking over the
day-to-day front-line triage type stuff for Documentation

Comment 2

[Jacob Steenhagen]

Is this a request for suggesting process information in the default distribution
of Bugzilla or a request for clarification of mozilla.org's polocies?  I suspect
it's the later.

Comment 3

[Ralf Hauser]

Yes, the latter. Since
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Bugzilla is very
short. It neither says what the implementation plans for a particular component
are, which the key designs are etc. nor does it mention anything on the
organisation behind it except for "Default Owner" and "Default QA Contact".
Sure, adding such information to each component may be an overkill, but one
small complementary step would be to describe the "governance" of a project in
general and how RFE's are prioritised etc. Is the first person who categorises
my RFEs as "lowest priority" the ultimate decision authority or is there a place
to "appeal"? Are there any pre-set queries that list RFE's per component by
priority/dependency? (I didn't find any under
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/report.cgi), etc., etc.,

Comment 4

[Jacob Steenhagen]

-> Web site

Comment 5

[Ralf Hauser]

Starting to track RFE's/bugs here which IMHO didn't experience due process (at
least up to some point in their bug-life):
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190947 (View Select'n Source Warn'g)
- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190914 (default input typ to passw )

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

What do those have to do with Bugzilla?  Those are Mozilla bugs.  Different
crowd.  If you want to deal with their RFE process, talk to them. :)

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

There's no unified process (it varies from engineer to engineer, and product to
product), so it can't really be documented...

Gerv