On 11/05/12 00:28, Mehrdad wrote:
On Thursday, 10 May 2012 at 22:23:15 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
On 10/05/2012 23:12, Mehrdad wrote:
How do you decide if something is 'critical', 'major', 'blocker', or
just 'normal'? Is
there a rule of thumb I could use?
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity
Stewart.
Hmmm... thanks for the link.
I'm having trouble understanding how to apply them, though.
For example, why are these bugs "critical"?
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5314
Because an error message with no clue of where it happened, is pretty
much the same as a segfault. It's far more important than any other
'diagnostic' bug.
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3445
Because this affects the documentation for all of Phobos. It has a huge
impact. It's far more important than any other 'ddoc' bug.
Are things like "wrong error message" or "wrong documentation"
considered to be on par with ICEs?
No, only error messages without line number.
Like, I see an ICE like
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6774
and I wonder why it's not "blocker" or at least "critical"...
They have the 'ice' keyword which performs the same job.
The severities are most useful for distinguishing when a bug has a very
different importance to others in the same category.
