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Re: Priority-Regression policy
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Patrick McCarty |
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Re: Priority-Regression policy |
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Tue, 1 Dec 2009 19:19:28 -0800 |
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On 2009-11-30, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:34:37PM -0800, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> > On 2009-11-29, Graham Percival wrote:
> > > What's the feeling amongst developers about what should be ranked
> > > as priority-Regression (and thus stop a release) ? In particular,
> > > should *everything* that used to work -- even if it was by
> > > accident? -- be ranked a Regression?
> >
> > Maybe we could add labels indicating which release an issue blocks?
>
> The previous policy, which I assume stands, is that anything
> ranked Priority-Regression is a "release blocker". IIRC, at one
> point this even blocked unstable releases.
Ah, okay. Just as long as we decide not to block unstable releases,
I'm fine with it. That's asking a little too much. :-)
> > > I don't particularly mind which way we decide, but I'd like it to
> > > be consistent, and I'm going to insist that if something is
> > > Priority-Regression, it blocks a release.
> >
> > IMO, regressions from 2.13 should get first priority and should block
> > 2.14, but other regressions should be considered on a case-by-case
> > basis.
>
> I'm not opposed to this, although if we want to go this route, I
> propose *removing* the Priority-Regression label. We could then
> use High, Medium, Low, Postponed. Regressions would then be
> High-priority by default, but developers could lower it if the
> regression was due to an architecture change, or if it only worked
> by accident originally.
What if we use "Type: Regression" instead of "Priority: Regression",
and then label each with a priority of either High, Medium, Low, or
Postponed (assuming we decide to go this route)?
Thanks,
Patrick
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