Classifying bugs

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

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.