Re: Classifying bugs

[Glenn Morris]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> In order to prepare for Emacs-23, we need to start sorting out the bugs
> that need to be fixed.  For this, the best thing to do is to mark bugs
> in the bug-tracker with the `critical' severity.

I would suggest that "serious" is better:

i) It fits in with the standard debbugs definitions
(http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/Developer#severities)

ii) It leaves room to classify security holes, data loss bugs, etc as
really "critical".


Also, you need to provide some guidelines, else this will be subjective.
For Emacs 22.1, almost any bug was release-blocking.
As a specific example, is any nextstep-only issue a "critical" bug to you?
(Presumably not, given than 620 isn't.)