[dmd-internals] regressions, criticals, and blockers

[Brad Roberts]

On 4/27/2012 9:45 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, April 27, 2012 21:38:06 Brad Roberts wrote:
>> On 4/27/2012 7:17 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> On Friday, April 27, 2012 17:38:49 Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> The severity level is set by the submitter. I think that we can either
>>>> spend time arguing over what severity level it should be, or we can
>>>> spend the time fixing them.
>>>
>>> True, but there's something to be said for either fixing all blockers or
>>> changing them to critical with any given release, since it can't really be
>>> a blocker if it doesn't block the release.
>>>
>>> Regardless, I thought that I should point out the fact that blockers
>>> really
>>> aren't treated that way at all, making that severity level a bit pointless
>>> as it stands.
>>>
>>> - Jonathan M Davis
>>
>> There's at least two definitions for blocker here:
>>
>>  1) should block the release
>>  2) blocks the submitters project -- ie, no work around known
>>
>> Bug submitters are almost certainly treating the severity as the latter.
> 
> True, but that's a pretty useless definition for blocker, since it says nothing 
> about the severity of the bug as far as the community at large is concerned. 
> It just means that it's causing major problems for the person reporting it. 
> The actual  bug could be quite minor.

If it can't be worked around, it's probably not minor.  If there's a work around, provide it and drop the severity to a
more appropriate level.