On 4/27/2012 9:45 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On Friday, April 27, 2012 21:38:06 Brad Roberts wrote: >> On 4/27/2012 7:17 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: >>> On Friday, April 27, 2012 17:38:49 Walter Bright wrote: >>>> The severity level is set by the submitter. I think that we can either >>>> spend time arguing over what severity level it should be, or we can >>>> spend the time fixing them. >>> >>> True, but there's something to be said for either fixing all blockers or >>> changing them to critical with any given release, since it can't really be >>> a blocker if it doesn't block the release. >>> >>> Regardless, I thought that I should point out the fact that blockers >>> really >>> aren't treated that way at all, making that severity level a bit pointless >>> as it stands. >>> >>> - Jonathan M Davis >> >> There's at least two definitions for blocker here: >> >> 1) should block the release >> 2) blocks the submitters project -- ie, no work around known >> >> Bug submitters are almost certainly treating the severity as the latter. > > True, but that's a pretty useless definition for blocker, since it says > nothing > about the severity of the bug as far as the community at large is concerned. > It just means that it's causing major problems for the person reporting it. > The actual bug could be quite minor.
If it can't be worked around, it's probably not minor. If there's a work around, provide it and drop the severity to a more appropriate level. _______________________________________________ dmd-internals mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals
