Hello, and apologies if you receive duplicates of this email. Bugzilla has multiple values for bug severity which are displayed alongside priority.
The differences between minor or trivial are small and do not help with describing a bug’s effect. We have keywords to indicate bugs which are crashes, data loss, or memory leaks; making the major value redundant. We removed the enhancement severity when we introduced bug types in 1H19. After review and discussion with a subset of Bugzilla stakeholders, we're announcing our intent to make the following change to Bugzilla. Existing Severity Values -------------------------------- * Blocker: Blocks development and/or testing work * Critical: Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak * Major: Major loss of function * Normal: Regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances * Minor: Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present * Trivial: Cosmetic problem like misspelled words or misaligned text We plan to collapse the existing values into blocker, normal, minor and critical. New Severity Values --------------------------- * Blocker: Broken important user-facing feature, Blocks development and/or testing work * Critical: Affecting a large number of users (all users on AMD64, Windows, MacOS, Linux), or major areas of functionality (tls, DOM, JavaScript, FxA, Add-ons) * Normal: Default; Regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances * Minor: Affecting a small number of users (i.e. ArchLinux users on PowerPC), a problem with an easy workaround, or a cosmetic issue such as misspellings or text alignment We'll be implementing this change in Bugzilla after the Whistler All-Hands. If you have questions or concerns about this change, please see me at Whistler or set up a meeting. I'll be available after the "How to Bugzilla" session on Tuesday at the All Hands (Fairmont Macdonald C, 13:30 to 15:30). You can also leave comments in: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dCiiKV4CE4ZUuOb6yCtCjATzpbnh7MZfLKPqepxzasA/ Thanks, Emma H. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
