Release criteria

[Robert Dewar]

Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Laurent GUERBY wrote:

> So I guess the closest thing we have these days is Mark's mental picture
> of Bugzilla and open projects and the status mails he is sending.  I'm not
> really sure how to formalize and write this down as a release criteria
> documents.

I guess I would say I trust Mark's mental picture better than any
formal document written down :-)

Not that I am opposed to writing things down, not at all, but
formalizing release procedures is a very hard process (we know,
we have to go through this ourselves all the time, and in fact
we generally rely on judgment from the release manager, informed
by discussion in arguable cases, rather than trying to write
down a formal set of criteria, and that has worked well for us).
> 
> Gerald