Re: The Serious severity
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 07:15:09PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Seems to me that if bug severity is orthagonal to release criticality at
> least some of the time, then it needs to be represented in an orthagonal
> way; tags already exist and are easily expanded. Don't limit it to
> serious bugs though, just make bugs that are filed with serious+
> severity automatically get a release-critical tag as well, which will be
> correct most of the time for > serious and can be downgraded or left off
> as needed for serious bugs.
The concept of an inverted tag could be useful here; then, a single
'release-critical' tag could be used to represent both explicit
release-criticality and explicit non-release-criticality, regardless of the
bug's severity (allowing it to be used as an override).
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- mdz
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