Bug Importance Guidelines

[Reinhard Tartler]

Brian Murray <brian at ubuntu.com> writes:
> Since the release team is actively using milestones combined with
> release targetting and measuring the quantity of users impacted is vague
> and subjective - I believe that the importance of a bug should be
> determined based on the impact for the package affected.

I agree that this makes more sense. It was highly unobvious to me that
the importance of a bug is to measure relative to the whole distribution
instead relative to the package in question until I attended the
relevant bug BoFs at the UDS in Prague.

This might be because I have a debian background where the criticality
of bugs is always measured at package level and maybe because I wasn't
aware of the [0].

I support your proposal because it removes the IMO unobvious semantics
of the 'severity' scale.


[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance

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