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Re: Severities and priorities in bugzilla
- From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth at ices dot utexas dot edu>
- To: Falk Hueffner <falk dot hueffner at student dot uni-tuebingen dot de>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, <dberlin at dberlin dot org>, Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, Giovanni Bajo <giovannibajo at libero dot it>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:52:57 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: Re: Severities and priorities in bugzilla
> > Severities
> > Critical A regression or other important broken functionality
> > Normal Any bug where gcc generates wrong code or doesn't conform
> > to some relevant standard, or where diagnostics are
> > misleading
>
> I don't see why you would put wrong-code in this category. IMHO,
> wrong-code are really the worst kind of bugs and should nearly always
> be Critical.
Fair enough. Fortunately, wrong-code PRs usually are also regressions, so
they'd go into the first bucket anyway. How many wrong-code PRs are not
regression?
> How about kicking Priorities completely?
I think there was sentiment against that in an earlier discussion. I
wouldn't object, for sure. I think we've got too many knobs to turn and
push right now.
W.
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