On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:36:54AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > For the record, we do in fact have a policy on this: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow#Priority_and_Severity > I wouldn't exactly claim that it's universally followed, but it *is* > there. I do still follow those rules for 'severity' when dealing with > bugs, for whatever it's worth.
Isn't bugzappers officially defunct? It does seem like a reasonable enough policy, for whatever that's worth. > It is not in fact true that they "can be changed by anybody" (unless > the BZ config has been changed in the last few years and I missed it, > which is entirely possible). Only people with 'editbugs' privileges can > change them. Lots of people have 'editbugs' privileges one way or > another, though. Just checked, and while that's true, anyone can set the _initial_ state, which is almost the same case. > > Right now, our only real method for prioritizing bugs at the distro > > level is the blocker and freeze exception process at release time. > > It *would* be nice to have some _other_ general method, but no one has > > put the time or effort into figuring out what one would be like (let > > alone making or maintaining it). > Yes they have. Several times! Unfortunately, no-one has ever stuck to > it for very long. Well, that's why I put the "maintaining it" part in there. > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers is still there, blowing in > the wind...that was the last one. Yeah, looks like the last meeting was five years ago. It had a pretty good run, though. :) -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
