Re: new help message in Emacs 25

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Noam,

>> >     critical
>> >     grave
>> >     serious
>> >     important
>> >     normal
>> >     minor
>> >     wishlist
>
>> Severities critical and grave are not used in the emacs project on
>> debbugs.gnu.org. Well, there are some few grave bugs, all of them
>> archived. But that's rather an accident.
>
> Maybe we should though, sometimes I feel like the severities are kind
> of squished. Currently it's very seldom that a bug is marked any
> higher than "normal", maybe it would be different if there more "room"
> in the upward direction.

There are serious and important in the upward direction, so we have 4
severities at all. I doubt, that 6 severities instead of 4 severities
would be a big win. And I have also the impression, that the severity
does not correlate always with the priorities people apply when solving
bugs. Including me, I'm looking rather for bugs which are related to
"my" packages, and/or which uncover an interesting problem.

IIRC, bug severities were discussed 10+ years ago, when debbugs.gnu.org
was established. But I cannot find this in the archives.

Best regards, Michael.