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Classifying bugs
Gabriel Dos Reis writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> The recent thread on the GCC-3.4.0 has lead some "bug masters" to
> either downgrade or close some PRs on the ground that they think they
> should not be blocking.
>
> While I understand that they are doing what they think is good
> for "clearing the road" for 3.4.0, I do not agree with the general
> trend of closing/downgrading as many as PRs as possible just to make
> to it look as if they were very few bugs. In particular, such actions
> should be conducted under clear guidance from the appropriate Release
> Manager. A Release Manager may decide to ship even if there were some
> high priority bugs; they need not be downgraded first.
In particular, http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12419 has
had its severity downgraded. Okay, so it's only a performance
regression, but it hits gcj (and, I suppose, g++) where it hurts
badly: method dispatch.
Andrew.