On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Ben Finney wrote: > Suppose the release managers decide that the division line you point > out will, as of tomorrow, lie in a different place from where it is > today (i.e. between a different neighbouring pair of severity > levels). Suppose further that their reasoning for this is > unanimously (!) accepted by all DDs as reasonable and the change a > necessary one. > > I would argue: Such a situation should *not* require changing the > severity level of *any* bug report in the BTS. Any existing report > that requires its severity changed as a result of this changed > criterion is classified incorrectly, and any decision to change a > bug report's severity, based only on this changed release criterion, > is an incorrect decision.
That's not correct. If a bug doesn't meet the criterial for release criticality, its severity will need to be adjusted (or in some cases, an -ignore tag added). Don Armstrong -- I never until now realized that the primary job of any emoticon is to say "excuse me, that didn't make any sense." ;-P -- Cory Doctorow http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
