On 14-Jun-06, 11:18 (CDT), Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Many (most?) maintainers use the BTS severity state to manage their > worklist. That is, the severity is a largley a note to themselves as > to which order to do things in or what priority to give them.
So http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities is no longer valid and should be removed? I doubt you're actually contending that, and what you're describing is often defacto what happens (one tends to start at the top of the bug list and work down by severity), but the severities *do* have defined meanings, and in general should be used as such. Conceptually, "priority" is NOT the same as "severity"; adding a "wishlist" feature that would benefit many may be of more value and thus higher priority than a "normal" bug that affects only a few and is easily worked around. There are many reasons not to mess with bug priorities on others packages, but "it screws up my todo list" is not one of them. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
