On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 09:10:01PM +0000, Pataki Antal (Granaglia Kft.) wrote: > please set this to critical and high priority.
Please let me explain the current state of these two fields in GNATS. The very short version: No one pays any attention to them. The longer version: FreeBSD is a volunteer project. To my knowledge, no-one is being paid to work on general PRs. Certain people do get paid to work on problems that affect their own companies' FreeBSD instances. However, this is the exception, not the rule. The second problem is that the values of these fields have been abused so often as to become completely meaningless. If every problem is Severity = critical, then really, no problem is critical. In the past I have tried to restrict 'critical' to 'known security hole' or 'corrupts data on disk'. But I think I am the only person even trying to triage the fields to that point. 'Priority' is beyond hope. Really, except in an organization where people are paid to work on PRs, this is meaningless. There is no penalty for anyone working on PRs in any priority order, or even not working on PRs at all. I'm sorry, but this is just the nature of a project that is primarily driven by volunteers. With 7960 total PRs outstanding, there is simply no way to work on them all. My hope is that in whatever replaces GNATS, these two fields will be deleted. They give a false hope that changing the values has any effect. mcl _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
