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Indeed, the general idea is that, > if we discover an issue in mast that's not in the latest release, > these are considered blocking regressions by default. There have > been cases in the past where we decided to release without the fix, > and these are decided based on severity, difficulty to fix, expected > fix date, etc. > > For other issues discovered on master, if the issue was introduced > in a previous release, we tend to classify them as not-blocking > by default, based on the idea that normally, severe issues tend > to be discovered quickly, so even if we had missed it for the .0, > we would have known about it for the .1. Also, if the bug was > in a release already, doing another release with that bug shouldn't > hurt (that is, would not make things worse). However, just as before, > this is only a guideline, and we can review each bug on a case by > case basis, and with sufficient merit, long-time bugs can still be > classified as blocking. > > I should also add that blocking/non-blocking is just a decision > process meant to guide the release process. Non-blocking does not > mean that the next release will necessarily have the bug as well. > It just indicates that we are not expecting to be waiting for > those issues to be resolved before we release. Contributing a patch > ahead of the release process would ensure that the issue gets fixed > in the release. Great! thanks for taking the time to clarify that for me :)