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| <h1>Hot Bug Process</h1> |
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| <h2>Hot bug process</h2> |
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| This document describes the process involved for submitting a hot bug request, |
| and how a request will be promoted to a hot bug. |
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| Anyone can submmit a hot bug request. If you are the owner of the bug, simply |
| prefix the bugzilla abstract with <b>[hotbug_request]</b>. You |
| should include the following information in the bugzilla: |
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| <li>Affiliation</li> |
| <li>Release you want this bug to be fixed in</li> |
| <li>Justify why this is a hot bug and why it needs to be fixed in that release</li> |
| </ol> |
| If you are not the owner of the bug, please ask someone with appropriate |
| bugzilla permissions to add the information for you. Alternatively, you can |
| add <b>jeffliu@ca.ibm.com</b> to the bug's CC list and state your request. He will |
| add the information for you. |
| Note that at this point, this is only a hot bug request. WTP makes no commitment |
| to fix it in the proposed release. The owner of this bug will work with |
| the orginator on accepting or declining this request. |
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| If a hot bug request is accepted, the bug owner should: |
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| <li> |
| Update the <b>target milestone</b> field to reflect which release this bug |
| will be fixed in. |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| Change the bugzilla prefix from <b>[hotbug_request]</b> to <b>[hotbug]</b>. |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| Add <b>jeffliu@ca.ibm.com</b> to the CC list. |
| </li> |
| </ol> |
| All <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=%5Bhotbug%5D&classification=WebTools&product=Web+Tools&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED">unresolved hot bugs</a> |
| will be reviewed in each WTP status meeting. The hot bug originators are encouraged to attend |
| these status meetings to support their hot bugs. |
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| In the case where both the bug originator and the owner agree that a bug is no longer a hot |
| bug, the owner should remove the <b>[hotbug_request]</b> prefix from the bugzilla abstract. |
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| In the case where the bug originator and the owner cannot come to an agreement on whether |
| a hot bug request should be promoted to a hot bug or not, the bug originator can attend the |
| weekly WTP status meeting and request that the PMC members take a vote and make a final |
| decision on whether the request should be promoted or not. |
| </p> |
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| Each release, the PMC should decide on a hot bug submission cutoff date. |
| After this date, only shop ships and regressions can be submitted as hot bugs. |
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