Re: bug rating

2009-12-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 07:44:59PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > Of course, I'm not proposing that anybody stop fixing bugs in order > > to perform this calculation. I just wanted to get the thought in > > this thread in case we ever want to seriously approach this in the > > future > > I s

Re: bug rating

2009-12-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> 1. Severity of the Bug. > 2. Probability of occurrence of the bug. > 3. Difficulty of working around. Very nice! > Of course, I'm not proposing that anybody stop fixing bugs in order > to perform this calculation. I just wanted to get the thought in > this thread in case we ever want to serio

Re: bug rating

2009-12-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> If you would like to change the priority between postponed, low, and > medium issues -- either raising the priority of a postponed or low > one, or lowering the priority of a low or medium one -- go ahead. I'll eventually do that for my own bugs. However, it's basically the job of the bugmeist

Re: bug rating

2009-12-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:22:17PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > - Low: the normal priority. Sorry, but we just don't have many bug > > fixers! I favor honesty over trying to make users happy about > > assigning their pet issue a "higher priority" flag that nobody > > pays attention t

Re: bug rating

2009-12-10 Thread Alexander Kobel
Werner LEMBERG wrote: Wouldn't it be helpful if I could check the priority flag of the bugs to find something I should work on more urgently than other things? For example, the Savannah bugzilla allows users to `rate' bugs. The higher the score, the more people would like to have this bug fixed

Re: bug rating

2009-12-10 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/10/09 3:29 AM, "Graham Percival" wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:15:21AM -0800, Mark Polesky wrote: >> Graham Percival wrote: >> > But if nobody is working on fixing them, who cares what the label > is?!?! > > The low vs. medium priority has historically been a mixture of > "bug s

Re: bug rating

2009-12-10 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> If you'd entered them yourself as both Medium, or both > Low, I wouldn't have said anything. OK. > - Low: the normal priority. Sorry, but we just don't have many bug > fixers! I favor honesty over trying to make users happy about > assigning their pet issue a "higher priority" flag that

Re: bug rating

2009-12-10 Thread David Kastrup
Graham Percival writes: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:15:21AM -0800, Mark Polesky wrote: > >> Personally, I don't think `priority'* or `annoying' captures it.  I >> would label them `embarrassing', because they're holding LilyPond >> back from looking really professional. > > But if nobody is work

Re: bug rating

2009-12-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:15:21AM -0800, Mark Polesky wrote: > Graham Percival wrote: > > > Let me turn this around: you are one of our top 10 bug > > hunters.  If you had no previous connection to any of the > > issues, how would you decide which bug(s) to work on?  Would > > you seriously just

Re: bug rating

2009-12-10 Thread Mark Polesky
Graham Percival wrote: > Let me turn this around: you are one of our top 10 bug > hunters.  If you had no previous connection to any of the > issues, how would you decide which bug(s) to work on?  Would > you seriously just start working on whichever item *I* said > was most important / most annoy

Re: bug rating

2009-12-10 Thread Graham Percival
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:22:32AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > is it correct that all fixes, regardless of its annoyance, get a `low > priority' in case it won't become part of the next `milestone' > release? That's not quite correct. There's no functional difference between Postponed, Low, an

bug rating

2009-12-09 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Graham, is it correct that all fixes, regardless of its annoyance, get a `low priority' in case it won't become part of the next `milestone' release? I consider this categorization a bit coarse, and I would like to see at least one more level to mark bugs as `annoying' or something like that.