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Re: woody is getting worse...



On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 02:55:01AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Funnily enough, I don't actually read and analyse every bug report that
> > gets filed to ensure that it's the appropriate severity. Normally this
> > works pretty well (especially, IMO, since "important" got forked into
> > "serious"), as evidenced by the rarity of flamewars like this.
> You didn't experience the bug yourself, then?  Just curious.

I run testing (under the "eating your own dogfood" principle), so I
didn't experience it 'til it was too late to do anything about it but
whine on -devel.

> > > Given that, I conclude
> > > that the matter was left to my discretion. 
> > Which, indeed it was. The problem is, you got it wrong.
> And what should my punishment be, O God of Earth and Altar?  

That you should get it right next time.

> Perhaps you missed the bits where:
> 3) said "Since it's my package, I take full responsibility for the
> fuckup."

I hadn't seen you say that, no. All I'd seen you say was that it was
everyone else's fault for not changing the severity of the bugs out
from under you, or for being so stupid as to think removing quotes from
a random file in /etc was difficult and annoying, or insinuating that
people shouldn't be criticising if *they're* not maintaining X.

So if you're taking responsibility, what is your "response" going
to be? What's going to avoid this happening again, either in X, or
elsewhere? Or why shouldn't it be avoided in future?

To throw an idea out for discussion, what about automatically upgrading
a bug to "serious" if it's minor/normal/important and has been reported
over, say, six times? [0]

Cheers,
aj

[0] So, if M(n) is the number of bugs, Bug#n has been merged with
    (inclusive), then if M(x) + M(y) >= 6 and M(x) < 6 and M(y) < 6, if
    x and y get merged, and their severity is minor/normal/important,
    then their severity gets upgraded to serious. That way it'll only
    happen the first time the bugs get merged.

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