[dmd-internals] Oldest five bugs

[Leandro Lucarella]

Don Clugston, el 19 de enero a las 09:59 me escribiste:
> Please note that the process of fixing bugs is not random.
> I documented the priority list a very long time ago, it was originally
> based on a post by Walter.
> 
> http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel#DMDCompilerStability
> 
> I've been following that for several years now. It's pretty accurate,
> it covers about 70% of the bugs in the changelog.

By the way, I think the priority field name could be improved. P1, P2,
P3... Doesn't say much, you have to click on the description to figure
out what it means (I always wonder if P1 is high priority or if is it
P5?). Also it would be nice to clarify that this should be edited only
by somebody *planning* a release. This is what we should use to set what
should be fixed first.

I think it could take 2 minutes to improve this, by changing priorities
to something like (based on the description):
P1 -> Immediate (*)
P2 -> Next release
P3 -> Eventually
P4 -> Future
P5 -> Informational

(*) I don't think this is actually used as there are no "maintenance"
releases fixing just urgent critical bugs/regressions (something like
1.071.1), but it would be very nice to have this kind of releases too.
Sometimes you have to wait too much for an update and you can't change
to a new version because of a regression that maybe it's already fixed,
but not released.

Another place where bugzilla could be improved is adding a new
Status/Resolution to state if a fixed bug is released or not. This way
they can be closed as soon as they are fixed, but you can still easily
see if the fix is actually available or not.

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