Bug#97671: 88 Priority violations in woody
>>"Branden" == Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
Branden> Yes, and aj's insistence that it should stay there, which does not
Branden> appear consistent with his decision that 88 other serious policy
Branden> violations should be closed outright.
Quite. In the tech ctte mailing list, I am a proponent of the
idea that bug severities, since they are set and changed by a large
number of people (reporters, who may not be be debian developoers,
and maintainers), the criteria for the bug severity ought to be as
objective as possible.
Whether a bug has enough impact on the system that releasing
it would be detrimental is a judgment call, and we have appointed a
single person whose judgment we all have agreed to trust for the
duration on matters related to the release. These criteria is where
a human can exercise common sense, and involves a number of criteria
(some thing that is RC before may not longer be deemed to be such as
the release nears).
Based on his posting on -ctte, I thought aj agreed with me.
But if the bug severity is supposed to be fixed and objective,
and RCness is separate, I am confused why the xutils bug was
_upgraded_ to serious, and these other serious bugs are
downgraded. (We already have bugscan to prevent the count from
getting confusing due to all these serious but not rc bugs).
Branden> My personal opinion is that the BTS should serve the
Branden> developers first and foremost. It *should* also be able to
Branden> serve the users, but until it has a conception of bugs
Branden> against versions of packages as opposed to a non-temporal
Branden> notion of a package, it's going to fill that role only
Branden> poorly. I think the Release Manager has other tools at his
Branden> disposal for discernment of release-criticality. Whether
Branden> those tools work to the satisfaction of a given Release
Branden> Manager or not is another question.
Quite so. But I think a serious bug should still be a serious
bug, and no subject to anyone whims -- including the package
maintainer.
manoj
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