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I try to make sure that when I file a bug on bugs.gentoo.org |
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that I set an "appropriate" severity. |
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Recently, I tried to emerge glademm with gcc 3.3.1 and it |
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failed to compile. I felt that given the description of |
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severities in the bugzilla: |
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Blocker Blocks development and/or testing work |
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Critical crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak |
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Major major loss of function |
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Minor minor loss of function, or other problem |
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where easy workaround is present |
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Trivial cosmetic problem like misspelled words |
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or misaligned text |
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Enhancement Request for enhancement |
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then the appropriate severity is "Blocker". |
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Clearly, I was wrong because it got downgraded to a "major" - |
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I suspect that this was because I gave a hacky workaround. |
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Fair enough. But could somebody please clarify what the |
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severities *really* mean? Preferably on bugzilla itself. |
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(Given the above descriptions, I would have expected a |
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downgrade based on having a workaround to be "minor", so |
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I'm doubly confused.) |
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I don't actually care what severity is used - but I do like |
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to get the right one. Or should I just not bother setting |
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it in future? |
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phil |
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change name before "@" to "phil" for email |
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