Myrna van Lunteren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 1/16/08, Army <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Rick Hillegas wrote:
>>
>> > If I were to categorize issues according to the severity of
>> > their impact, it would look something like this (in declining
>> > order of significance):
>> >
>> > 1) Engine crashes
>> > 2) Data corruption
>> > 3) Wrong results
>> > 4) Failures (e.g., a query just aborts)
>> > 5) Misleading messages, typos, ugly formatting, ...
>>
> I would add to that list
>  Unintended regression of behavior/fixes.
> (not sure of the priority of it, but I'm inclined to see it as 0).

I guess I see 'regression' as a separate dimension which increases the
priority. In general I think all regressions should have higher priority
than non-regressions, but I would not prioritize say, an unclear error
message regression over a data corruption that is not a regression.

> Also, maybe there are some items off Kathey's high value fix bugs that
> can be fixed for 10.4.
> http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/HighValueFixCandidates

Thanks for posting the link. I'll bookmark it :)

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dt

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