From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 27 19:44:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04BB237B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A1743E81 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:44:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1B7CC66B28; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:44:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:44:22 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Meaning of severity/priority for ports PRs Message-ID: <20020928024422.GC66227@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Qbvjkv9qwOGw/5Fx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --Qbvjkv9qwOGw/5Fx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:39:07PM -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > So does a bug that prevents the games/diddle program from running > get a severity/priority of critical/high (from the port's viewpoint) > or non-critical/low (from the viewpoints of the OS or the OS=20 > developers or most porters)? Unfortunately severity and priority are not very meaningful because most people regularly abuse them (IT IS A CRITICAL BUG THAT THERE IS A TYPO IN THIS COMMENT). I don't usually pay attention to them myself. Kris --Qbvjkv9qwOGw/5Fx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9lReGWry0BWjoQKURAni6AJ9kmccDrZeFBILmdc+u8AsXOP8rnwCgvm5t m+uiooj3ksmA2Wco7f7w+Ss= =V9Bm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qbvjkv9qwOGw/5Fx-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message