On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 5:02 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How about using the "critical" Severity for show stoppers? > > Alternatively, Priority "immediate" could be used. > > The intended use of Severity is that it is assigned by the > submitter, whereas Priority is assigned by triage/developers.
Yeah, well, that's the theory. I've never met anyone who understoon the distinction between priority and severity (you may be the exception :-). The subjective severity as perceived by the reporter is not all that useful, and it is probably better expressed in English. Personally, if we were to "grade" bugs on a second scale besides priority, I'd much rather have a scale to indicate the expected amount of work, from "one-char fix" at one end of the scale to "requires complete rewrite of the universe" at the other end. > We should really decide whether we want to use it that way. Thinking it over, I actually believe that we should use the highest priority to indicate show-stoppers that hold up a release. So that is indeed "immediate". -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
