Bug Importance Guidelines

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Brian Murray wrote on 25/06/08 23:34:
>...
> 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.
>...

Eventually Launchpad is likely to provide statistics and graphs of open
bug reports by Importance for Ubuntu as a whole, for help in release
management.

These will be somewhat misleading if Importance has been measured
relative to the individual package, rather than relative to Ubuntu as a
whole. For example, a bug that makes a package unusable for some people
may be Critical relative to that package, but only High relative to
Ubuntu if hardly anyone uses that package.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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