Re: GOP-PROP 8: issue priorities (radical update)

[Trevor Daniels]

Graham Percival wrote Monday, August 08, 2011 6:06 AM

> ** Proposal summary
>
> Let’s get rid of priorities. We will simply describe bugs in
> neutral terms; each contributor can search and interpret the
> results as he or she sees fit.

This is a better approach than haggling over priority.

> We will make a “Type-Critical”; a new stable release will only
> occur if there are 0 type-Critical issues.

> ** Proposal details
>
> We will delete “priority” altogether. The “type” system will be
> tweaked.
>
> Type-critical:

[snipped]

>    * anything which stops contributors from helping out (e.g.
>      lily-git.tcl not working, source tree(s) not being
>      available). To limit this scope of this point, we will
>      assume that the contributor is using the latest lilydev and
>      has read the relevant part(s) of the Contributor’s Guide.

I agree this is important, but I don't see why it
should prevent a new release per se.

> More new/changed types

[snipped]

>    * Type-ignorance: (fixme name?) it is not clear what the
>      correct output should look like. We need scans, references,
>      examples, etc.

I don't think this is a stand-alone type.  It's more a label
which could be applied to several types.

> ** Shutting up users
>
> We can remind users that they can “star” an issue to indicate that
> they care about it. I could not possibly care less about what
> users think, but if any contributors want to look at that info and
> organize their work schedule according to that, they’re welcome to
> do so. Also, the stars might serve as a placebo for users.

I like this suggestion.  There are already 6 open issues with more
than 7 stars, so it's already being used.  In spite of that we'd
need to explain more clearly how to star an issue so all users
can play, with a disclaimer that some issues might not receive
attention however many stars they get.

It will give quite a different rating cf to the priority field.  Of 
the 6
issues with more than 7 stars, 2 are low, 3 medium and 1
abandoned!

Trevor



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