Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 22:59:51 -0400 From: AlanE <alane@geeksrus.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Meaning of severity/priority for ports PRs Message-ID: <20020928025951.GA36989@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <20020928024422.GC66227@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <akofak7afo.fak@localhost.localdomain> <20020928024422.GC66227@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:44:22PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: >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 >> 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. FWIW, I usually use 'critical' for something that stops a build, 'serious' for bugs that impair functionality or screw up deinstallation, and non-critical for things like doc errors. I use priority high for things that are depended upon by lots of other things, or things that are used by a lot of people. I use priority medium for most other things, and priority low for cosmetic errors. These get tempered by how close to a freeze or release we are, especially escalating serious to critical for nasty bugs that need to get stomped before a release gets cut (or other stuff that's just plain embarassing to us to have go out on a bunch of boxed CD sets). For example, it would be nice if 'portsdb -U' ran quietly - that is, whatever is making it spew got fixed - but I'd put it at at non-serious and low priority because it doesn't seem to actually affect the usage of the system, and you can always redirect it to /dev/null. Just my $0.015 (not even worth 2 cents). -- Alan Eldridge Unix/C(++) IT Pro, 20 yrs, seeking new employment. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.txt) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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