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- Waiving means that bug in question does not need to be fixed for the release which is being stabilized at the moment.
- This approach will be used exceptionally to avoid blocking a release due to bugs which were discovered too late in the stabilization phase and need deep investigation and enough time to find the appropriate fix.
- Only the appropriate NetCAT tribe leader responsible for the affected functionality can label a bug with WAIVER tag after reaching consensus within his/her tribe.
- A critical bug can be waived (labeled with WAIVER tag) for 2 releases at maximum.
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