[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] 2.6 and 3.0 project management

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 5:02 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
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>  > How about using the "critical" Severity for show stoppers?
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>  Alternatively, Priority "immediate" could be used.
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>  The intended use of Severity is that it is assigned by the
>  submitter, whereas Priority is assigned by triage/developers.

Yeah, well, that's the theory. I've never met anyone who understoon
the distinction between priority and severity (you may be the
exception :-). The subjective severity as perceived by the reporter is
not all that useful, and it is probably better expressed in English.
Personally, if we were to "grade" bugs on a second scale besides
priority, I'd much rather have a scale to indicate the expected amount
of work, from "one-char fix" at one end of the scale to "requires
complete rewrite of the universe" at the other end.

>  We should really decide whether we want to use it that way.

Thinking it over, I actually believe that we should use the highest
priority to indicate show-stoppers that hold up a release. So that is
indeed "immediate".

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