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Re: Classifying bugs
- From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at ACT-Europe dot FR>
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:34:27 +0100
- Subject: Re: Classifying bugs
- References: <m3llod3br7.fsf@uniton.integrable-solutions.net>
> 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.
I generally agree with this comment.
On the other hand, you have to consider what is happening in reality
for many bugs: the reporter of a bug typically considers /his/ problem
blocking, while this is very typically not the case and affects only
very specific options or very specific sequence of actions. Not even
talking about other subtleties such as regression/vs non regression, etc...
Arno