Re: Bug severity and release-critical status (was: Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs)

2008-12-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 04:11:35PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > The decision of whether a bug is release-critical or not is for the > release managers to make, using the various properties of the bug > (including but *not* limited to its severity) as input to that > decision. They can, in fact, make

Re: Bug severity and release-critical status

2008-12-27 Thread Don Armstrong
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 thi

Re: Bug severity and release-critical status

2008-12-27 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > > So, it's not correct for anyone but a release manager to decide > > “this bug is/is not release-critical, so I'll change the > > severity”; that is a perversion of the meaning of the severity > > field. You can argue about whether a bug fits the d

Re: Bug severity and release-critical status (was: Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs)

2008-12-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Ben Finney wrote: > So, it's not correct for anyone but a release manager to decide > “this bug is/is not release-critical, so I'll change the severity”; > that is a perversion of the meaning of the severity field. That's not quite true. See below. > You can argue about wheth

Re: Bug severity and release-critical status

2008-12-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > The decision of whether a bug is release-critical or not is for the > release managers to make, using the various properties of the bug > (including but *not* limited to its severity) as input to that > decision. They can, in fact, make that decision apparent in the bug > rep

Bug severity and release-critical status (was: Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs)

2008-12-26 Thread Ben Finney
Don Armstrong writes: > On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, José Luis González wrote: > > If a problem is RC, it should be marked as RC. If the BTS manages > > pseudopackages, a bug in a pseudopackage that is RC should be > > marked as RC in the BTS. > > The BTS has nothing to do with deciding whether particul