Introducing time wasters

Alejandro Revilla apr at jpos.org
Thu Sep 20 18:31:18 UTC 2018


Why not 'nasty'? It's a nasty bug, after all.

My 2c.

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On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 3:14 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com> wrote:

> * Aleksey Shipilev:
>
> > dev-hard implies "this requires hard development"?
> >
> > Probably, the variant of "critical-for-dev-experience" to turn the
> > whole thing positive.
>
> I think the point is the internal impact.  Presumably it's like a test
> blocker, except that it's possible to work around once understood (but
> then the time waste has already occurred).
>
> I'm not sure if such bugs are automatically urgent.  It's true that the
> fix will quickly pay for itself, but that doesn't really tell us much
> about priority and severity of the issue (and the difficulty of the fix
> 8-).
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
>


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