Re: The Serious severity
>>"Branden" == Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
Branden> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:10:34PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Strawman.
Branden> ? I don't see how.
>> The rationale I presented argues for creating a severity to use for
>> violations of policy. The point was to allow for violations of must
>> directives to be flagged as problems in themselves, potentially
>> release critical, thereby acknowledging the importance of Debian
>> policy for packages (IMHO policy is the major difference between the
>> solidity of a Debian machine vs other distributions).
Branden> The same function can be served by a tag, as the IRC discussion
Branden> illustrates.
No, the same functionality is _NOT_ served by tags. Like it or
not, our bug listing are done by severity, and shoving policy
violation into a tag degrades the importance of not violating
policy.
Branden> Talk about leaping to conclusions. I was simply waiting to
Branden> come forward with talk of a "consensus" between Anothony and
Branden> myself until he had signed off on it, so that I could be
Branden> sure I wasn't misrepresenting his position.
Yup. yet another fait accompli. We discussed this, and we have
a conclusion, your input not required.
Open and transparent decision making at its best.
Branden> And, for the sake of openness and transparency:
Branden> 03:38PM|* Manoj goes off to bait Overfiend on the policy
Branden> list 03:39PM|<Manoj> serves him right for discussing serious
Branden> severity minutes after I signed off to go to bed
Branden> I don't see how that attitude helps anyone. Surely people
Branden> do not need your permission to discuss the utility of the
Branden> "serious" severity?
Gotcha. Your humor detector is on the blink.
manoj
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