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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 12 October 2009 16:28:19 Jonathan Lange wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello Launchpadders,
> >
> > I just had a chat with Brad, who managed the last release of
> > Launchpad, about the way we go about managing the release.
> 
> ...
> 
> I forgot. We also thought that it would be a good idea if you check
> with the appropriate team lead before proposing a patch as being
> release critical. Not as a mandatory thing, but it makes it a lot
> easier for the RM, who can often lack the domain knowledge to make a
> sound judgement about how severe an issue is.

Actually, we already have a policy in place where any release critical or CP 
requests should go through a team lead first, who will do an initial 
assessment.  I'm not sure if that's been strictly adhered to though.