On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 01:22 +0100, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
Do we have any bug importance guidelines? I'm asking because some of my bugs had absurdly high importances.
The simple method is:
Low: Quirks, really obscure things, and minor nit picky things. Medium: Bugs which affect usability, functionality, behavior, etc. High: Crashes, regressions, or bugs related to file open/save problems. Critical: Data loss or file corruption.
Obviously, build breakage would be thought of as high too, but it should hopefully not take long enough to merit a bug report before fixing.
This node toolbar "bug" that is a cosmetic change in UI got "High" - same as the flowtext issue. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/534045
Not a true regression, so High is definitely too high of importance.
This preferences "bug" that affected a developer-only debug setting got "Critical" - same as graphic tablets not working on Windows. (and I don't even agree with classifying this as a bug - for me it's an incorrect use of preferences) https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/367752
I don't want to asses the bug importance on that one... you and Jon can hash out your issues alone. ;)
Cheers, Josh