On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 07:15:09PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > No, the same functionality is _NOT_ served by tags. Like it or > > not, our bug listing are done by severity, and shoving policy > > violation into a tag degrades the importance of not violating > > policy. > > Seems to me that if bug severity is orthagonal to release criticality at > least some of the time, then it needs to be represented in an orthagonal > way; tags already exist and are easily expanded. Don't limit it to > serious bugs though, just make bugs that are filed with serious+ > severity automatically get a release-critical tag as well, which will be > correct most of the time for > serious and can be downgraded or left off > as needed for serious bugs.
The concept of an inverted tag could be useful here; then, a single 'release-critical' tag could be used to represent both explicit release-criticality and explicit non-release-criticality, regardless of the bug's severity (allowing it to be used as an override). -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
