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_...
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. :)
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader