On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 13:56 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Kamil Paral wrote:
So we could ignore freeze just for packages not being on any install medium. But then I'm not sure how much that is helpful and it might be difficult to implement this in Bodhi.
In the old manual process, I just had to ask rel-eng and they'd blanket-OK freeze overrides for such packages (with the same arguments as yours, i.e., it cannot really break anything).
Yes - and that frequently went wrong. That's precisely why we ditched that process and came up with a better one, where the decision isn't made on-the-fly by whoever happens to be reading the tickets in releng, but is made according to an established process, by a sensible group of stakeholders, with proper tracking and a paper trail.
These days, such freeze override requests get blanket-rejected instead (because it doesn't make much of a difference, so they don't see any reason to make exceptions to the processes).
Nothing gets blanket rejected. Each FE proposal is evaluated individually on its merits.