[Sandro Santilli] > Due to recent discussion with Rob, this mail is > to get a shared interpretation of the Severity > field we have for bugs:
The severity descriptions I am most familiar with is the Debian one, available from <URL: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities >. Some of these map directly to those. > 1. Wish wishlist for any feature request, and also for any bugs that are very difficult to fix due to major design considerations. > 2. Minor minor a problem which doesn't affect the package's usefulness, and is presumably trivial to fix. > 3. Normal normal the default value, applicable to most bugs. > 4. Important important a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone. > 5. Blocker critical makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break, or causes serious data loss, or introduces a security hole on systems where you install the package. grave makes the package in question unusable or mostly so, or causes data loss, or introduces a security hole allowing access to the accounts of users who use the package. serious is a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a "must" or "required" directive), or, in the package maintainer's or release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release. > 6. Security In Debian the security status is a tag and not a severity, so it can be attached to any bug. > "Blocker" I've used mostly to mean "release blocker", that is > something you should fix before next release. I assume you mean 'must fix' here. For me a blocking bug would be one that need to be fixed before the next release too, but because it make the package almost unusable or break other packages, or because the package maintainer believe the bug make it unfit for release. > "Important" is something people will be likely to complain a lot > about (say support for latest YouTube change). Given that some people will complain about anything, this seem like a bad way to decide if the bug should get severity important or not. I would suggest using the Debian definition instead. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
