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From: Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o>
To: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla Q: upgrading severity on someone else's bug
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 04:17:01
Message-Id: 1080966515.1038.4.camel@sephora
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla Q: upgrading severity on someone else's bug by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 18:40, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2
3 > Here's a few suggestions, based on personal experience:
4 >
5 > 1) Not all developers use or care about the priority. Your assumption is
6 > just that.
7 >
8 > 2) Let the developers set the priorities. They know (or should know)
9 > what's important and what's not. Some of them will get annoyed if people
10 > screw around with the priorities after they have been set.
11 >
12 > 3) Priority is a very subjective issue. Sure, you consider it a blocker,
13 > but perhaps to another person a blocker bug is something that completely
14 > destroys an installed Gentoo system.
15 >
16 > 4) If you want the assignees to pay attention to a bug, create some
17 > activity. Add a (polite!) comment requesting attention. That way the
18 > assignees get an email reminding them of its existence if they were
19 > concentrating on other things.
20 >
21 > Thanks,
22
23 The cause for concern in Andrew's case is that the bug was assigned to
24 an ex-developer, so it was not even likely to see any attention. DevRel
25 should look at the bugzilla accounts reassign bugs as part of a cleaning
26 process this week.
27
28 Thanks,
29 --
30 Seemant Kulleen
31 Developer and Project Co-ordinator,
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33
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla Q: upgrading severity on someone else's bug [resolved] Andrew Ross <aross@×××××××××××.au>