Cleaning bug list

[Joel Madero]

Version 2, changed orientation and tried to take comments into
account. Let me know what you all think.


Joel

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.cz> wrote:
> Joel Madero píše v Po 18. 06. 2012 v 07:04 -0700:
>> I'll modify the orientation today or tomorrow and try to see where
>> regression should fit. I think that it has to go in Priority and not in
>> Severity.
>
> Makes sense.
>
>>  As for how devs use it, I agree completely that right now it's
>> almost useless but maybe if it becomes more uniform and it actually
>> provides some information as to what the bug is doing....who knows.
>
> I think that normal developers might ignore unconfirmed bugs. The will
> be happy if confirmed bugs are prioritized some "standardized" way.
>
>>  For instance for me, at this point my abilities are pretty low so trivial
>> bugs seem to be the go to...
>
> Heh, even minor bug might be hard to fix. On the other hand, crashes are
> sometimes easier because backtrace and valgrind log points to the
> probleamtic code ;-)
>
>> As for users prioritizing themselves, I've (mentioned/suggested/got irritated
>> with) in comments a couple users setting Severity to Critical for
>> something as minor as Conditional Formatting, it's almost to the point
>> that it is useless to "let" the end user categorize their own bugs like
>> this.
>
> Sure. Well, it can be solved by filtering the non-confirmed bugs.
>
>> Maybe regression should automatically set Priority to "Highest"
>> regardless of how many people are affected.
>
> I would still prefer to take in account the seriousness and visibility.
> If it takes months to report a regression, it means that nobody active
> used the functionality for a long time. Such a regression could wait a
> bit longer ;-)
>
>
>> Ok off to work. Glad it at least seems a little useful. I have such
>> limited experience in programming/programming projects that I just felt
>> a bit overwhelmed so this helped me quite a bit last night when I was
>> going through bugs.
>
> I am sure that it will help others as well. It is possible that some
> people did not start triaging because they were not sure how to do it.
>
> Thanks for working on it.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Petr
>
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