On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Shaw Andy <[email protected]> wrote: > Before the transition to Qt being developed in the open via open governance, > the Qt Support team back in Trolltech and later Nokia, would prioritize the > bugs that were created, or at least handled, by them. Typically these would > be bugs that were brought to our attention by commercial customers using Qt. > As we know the bug fairly well at this point, and have an understanding of > the impact it has on applications, then we were in a position to set a > reasonable priority setting. Since the move to develop in the open via open > governance, this has not been kept up, as it was back then not desired that > the Qt Support team would continue this practice. > > What I would like to suggest that we do now is bring back this practice, so > that the Qt Support team will set a priority on the bugs that it creates or > handles, so that it makes things easier for the maintainers to actually see > what issues are potentially a higher priority than the others. And in the > case of the high priority issues, it will draw attention to them faster > rather than them being picked up later on in the process. I have also > discussed this with the developers inside Digia, and they see a need for > getting help when triaging the bugs, so having the Qt Support team set a > priority here would at least go some way to helping with that. Of course any > priority set by the Qt Support team is intended to be a guideline, the > maintainer would still be at liberty to change it if they disagree.
Sounds like a good idea to me. -- Jason _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
