* Re: [gentoo-dev] What is classified as a "blocker" bug?
@ 2003-09-30 18:34 99% ` Jon Portnoy
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From: Jon Portnoy @ 2003-09-30 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:58:33PM +0100, Phil Richards wrote:
> I try to make sure that when I file a bug on bugs.gentoo.org
> that I set an "appropriate" severity.
>
> Recently, I tried to emerge glademm with gcc 3.3.1 and it
> failed to compile. I felt that given the description of
> severities in the bugzilla:
>
> Blocker Blocks development and/or testing work
> Critical crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak
> Major major loss of function
> Minor minor loss of function, or other problem
> where easy workaround is present
> Trivial cosmetic problem like misspelled words
> or misaligned text
> Enhancement Request for enhancement
>
> then the appropriate severity is "Blocker".
>
> Clearly, I was wrong because it got downgraded to a "major" -
> I suspect that this was because I gave a hacky workaround.
>
> Fair enough. But could somebody please clarify what the
> severities *really* mean? Preferably on bugzilla itself.
> (Given the above descriptions, I would have expected a
> downgrade based on having a workaround to be "minor", so
> I'm doubly confused.)
>
> I don't actually care what severity is used - but I do like
> to get the right one. Or should I just not bother setting
> it in future?
>
I, personally, usually use blocker only for very serious issues that
could potentially, say, break someone's system to the point of being
unbootable. (That's not the only case where I use it, it's just a decent
example).
In general, don't take it too seriously. We use it as a way to
categorize what our priorities are based on what other bugs we have.
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