> > How DOES bug prioritization work in Sage? You can pick > blocker/critical/major/minor/trivial when you're creating a ticket. > Does someone double-check those choices, or is prioritization > essentially up to the folks working on a given ticket? Is the rule that > "blocker"-level bugs must be fixed before releasing a new version of Sage? >
In practice, the only things that happen are * default is major * on occasion truly trivial things are set to trivial and minor things are made minor * a bit more often, people set things they personally think are critical (but perhaps aren't) to critical * very rarely, things are set to blocker, and the current practice is nearly always that this is to fix an unacceptable bug before release - usually one discovered in testing new functionality for that release And that's it. There is certainly very little double-checking, and very little setting to anything other than major: 925 tickets versus 2334 tickets: http://trac.sagemath.org/query?priority=!major&status=needs_info&status=needs_review&status=needs_work&status=new&status=positive_review&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=priority http://trac.sagemath.org/query?priority=major&status=needs_info&status=needs_review&status=needs_work&status=new&status=positive_review&col=id&col=summary&col=priority&col=status&col=type&col=milestone&col=component&order=id It would be interesting to do a query against how many "minor" ones were created by the same people... I was expecting fewer (there are about 800 currently open), but perhaps more recently people have gotten better about this? Still, there is very little triage - it mostly follows "scratch your itch". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
