From: [...] Simon Michael Here are the current Mantis severities:
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I find these hard to use because:
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I'd like us to choose a simpler set of severities, perhaps evolving them over time. Ideally old issues will have their severities
adapted
accordingly. Here's a proposal to get the ball rolling:
serious - crashes, hangs, release blockers, data loss, security breaches, breakages in important stuff normal - every other kind of breakage or problem, except for.. wishlist - things which are more like enhancement requests
I like the existing severities because:
- There is no 'normal'. This forces the reporter to decide between 'minor' and 'major', rather than all bugs getting lumped in as 'normal', which in turn leads to better prioritisation.
- There are enough that it is possible to prioritise. Notably, blockers are separated from bugs that are severe but are not blocking release.
I agree that:
- Tweak could be mis-interpreted in a Squeak environment. It should perhaps be re-labeled 'almost trivial'.
- The meaning of 'text' could perhaps be clarified by renaming it, but it's difficult to find a better name - 'typo' is a subclass.
I am very much against simplifying the current set of severities for the reasons given above; if anything, I would add 'enhancement' to the list, as otherwise the term 'feature' may get abused as a severity of 'new feature' rather than its intended use of 'this is a feature of the existing code'.
- Peter