Re: Use of Bugzilla fields

2005-10-30 Thread Mark Mitchell
Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >>P5 bugs will be ones I consider too unimportant to block *any* future >>release. I'm going to add links to the main web page to query for the >>regressions I think are important enough to block a release. > > Could you or somebody please update the "Known regressions" b

Re: Use of Bugzilla fields

2005-10-30 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > P1 bugs will be bugs I think absolutely must be fixed before the next > release; releasing with this bug would be diastrous. > > I'd like to use P2 to indicate that I've review the bug, and that it > does not merit P1 status, but is important. > > P3 w

Re: Use of Bugzilla fields

2005-10-30 Thread Daniel Berlin
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 17:48 -0500, Andrew Pinski wrote: > >> It might be better to add a flag for this istead of using the priority > >> field. > > >I think it's an appropriate use of the priority field; the priority > >field is supposed to say how important the bug is, which is another way > >of

Re: Use of Bugzilla fields

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew Pinski
>> It might be better to add a flag for this istead of using the priority >> field. >I think it's an appropriate use of the priority field; the priority >field is supposed to say how important the bug is, which is another way >of saying how excited we should be about fixing it in an upcoming relea

Re: Use of Bugzilla fields

2005-10-30 Thread Mark Mitchell
Andrew Pinski wrote: >>[Danny, see below for a request.] >> >>In my review of open PRs against the 4.1 branch, I'm going to adopt a >>new convention. >> >>Until now, when I've decided something is not important enough to >>require fixing for a particular release, I unset the target milestone. >>Tha

Re: Use of Bugzilla fields

2005-10-30 Thread Andrew Pinski
> > [Danny, see below for a request.] > > In my review of open PRs against the 4.1 branch, I'm going to adopt a > new convention. > > Until now, when I've decided something is not important enough to > require fixing for a particular release, I unset the target milestone. > That's confusing beca

Re: Use of Bugzilla fields

2005-10-30 Thread Mark Mitchell
Joseph S. Myers wrote: > Does this mean regressions for languages and platforms other than those in > the release criteria should now have the milestone set, but be marked as > P4 or P5? Yes, as P5. But, I don't intend to try to go back and find those that are already unmarked, and "fix" the m

Re: Use of Bugzilla fields

2005-10-30 Thread Joseph S. Myers
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Until now, when I've decided something is not important enough to > require fixing for a particular release, I unset the target milestone. > That's confusing because it might seem to mean that I'm saying the bug > *can't* be fixed for a particular releas

Re: Use of Bugzilla fields

2005-10-30 Thread Daniel Berlin
On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 13:42 -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote: > [Danny, see below for a request.] > > In my review of open PRs against the 4.1 branch, I'm going to adopt a > new convention. > > Until now, when I've decided something is not important enough to > require fixing for a particular release,

Use of Bugzilla fields

2005-10-30 Thread Mark Mitchell
[Danny, see below for a request.] In my review of open PRs against the 4.1 branch, I'm going to adopt a new convention. Until now, when I've decided something is not important enough to require fixing for a particular release, I unset the target milestone. That's confusing because it might seem t