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[Mehrdad]

On Thursday, 10 May 2012 at 22:23:15 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
> On 10/05/2012 23:12, Mehrdad wrote:
>> How do you decide if something is 'critical', 'major', 
>> 'blocker', or just 'normal'? Is
>> there a rule of thumb I could use?
>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity
>
> Stewart.

Hmmm... thanks for the link.

I'm having trouble understanding how to apply them, though.

For example, why are these bugs "critical"?
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5314
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3445

Are things like "wrong error message" or "wrong documentation" 
considered to be on par with ICEs?

Like, I see an ICE like
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6774

and I wonder why it's not "blocker" or at least "critical"...