Mike Gilbert wrote:
On 09/20/2011 12:34 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
I've filed two bug reports today[1][2]. Now, when filing bugs, the
dropdown for 'severity' includes "Critical: The software crashes,
hangs, or causes you to lose data."
One bug did cause data loss (a configuration wipe; I'm now amused I
can use the bugtracker as a backup), and both bugs are indicated by
software crashes. Both bugs have also been downgraded to 'major' by
the bug wranglers. Am I misunderstanding something?
[1]https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383695
[2]https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383751
To be honest, I downgraded the severity on those bugs to turn off the
distracting red highlight in the bug listing as I was wrangling. You did
nothing wrong.
In my defense, if you take Gentoo Linux as a whole, problems with grip
and bzr rank very low compared with more critical system packages.
Anyway, if you have a problem with the way I treat your bugs, feel free
to call me out on it.
I always leave it at the default and if needed mention the severity of
the problem in the comments section. The way I figure it is this, the
bug wrangler would likely know if it is serious enough to change it to
something that gets faster attention. Plus, if it is extremely bad,
he/she would also have a email address to get even quicker attention.
Now if it was something that I knew was 100% serious, maybe then I would
but off hand, I can't even think of a example of that. Even if it was a
serious gcc bug, most of us have two installed and could just switch to
another one.
Would this be a good way to do this?
Dale
:-) :-)
