Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:07:57PM +0100, David N. Welton wrote:
> > As was stated elsewhere, the best way you can make a meaningful > > contribution is to file bugs that are "higher level" than > > "normal", in order to draw attention to broken packages. > Oh god no. Please no. Inflating bug severeties just makes it harder > to do releases; if there's a problem with normal bugs being ignored > (and, IMO, there is), it needs to be addressed directly, not worked > around by filing everything as important or higher. If the software is broken enough that people find it really doesn't work for its intended purpose, I agree with Henrique's idea that a bug should be filed that will block the software from getting released. > Hrm. At least tell me that I'm misreading this, and what you meant > to say was `` "higher quality" than "average" '' or something. If it's going to be a bug that blocks the package from getting into Debian releases, it better be well thought out, and high-quality, and certainly not something used lightly. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Free Software: http://people.debian.org/~davidw/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/ Personal: http://www.efn.org/~davidw/
