[www-patch] bugs/management.html: Clarify how to handle regressions

Volker Reichelt reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
Mon Jan 12 23:10:00 GMT 2004


The following patch clarifies the paragraph how to handle regressions
in bugs/management.html. For a discussion of the subject see

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-01/msg00716.html

Does everybody agree with this policy?

Checked as valid XHTML 1.0.
Ok to commit?

Regards,
Volker


Index: management.html
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RCS file: /home/reichelt/GCC/CVS/gcc-cvs/wwwdocs/htdocs/bugs/management.html,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -c -p -r1.21 management.html
*** management.html	20 Oct 2003 11:04:18 -0000	1.21
--- management.html	12 Jan 2004 23:00:10 -0000
*************** marked as such.  The summary line should
*** 200,211 ****
  [<em>branches-to-fix</em> regression] <em>rest-of-summary</em>
  </blockquote>
  
! <p>where <em>branches-to-fix</em> is the list of maintained
! branches (separated by slashes) that need fixing. In addition the target
! milestone should be set accordingly. A regression should start with
  severity "<strong>critical</strong>" to bring it to attention. It may
  be downgraded later if a defect is not important enough to justify
! "critical" severity.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Meta-bugs (reports with the keyword "meta-bug")</strong> are
  used to group PRs that have a common denominator.  Meta-bugs do not have
--- 200,212 ----
  [<em>branches-to-fix</em> regression] <em>rest-of-summary</em>
  </blockquote>
  
! <p>where <em>branches-to-fix</em> is the list of maintained branches
! (separated by slashes) that need fixing. A regression should start with
  severity "<strong>critical</strong>" to bring it to attention. It may
  be downgraded later if a defect is not important enough to justify
! "critical" severity. In addition the target milestone should be set
! to the next release that needs fixing. The milestone can be changed
! by the release manager and his/her delegates.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Meta-bugs (reports with the keyword "meta-bug")</strong> are
  used to group PRs that have a common denominator.  Meta-bugs do not have
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