Introducing time wasters

jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com
Mon Sep 24 17:38:23 UTC 2018


> I suggest someone very quickly makes an /executive decision/ to: pick an
> ok name from the many extant suggestions and mandate its use,
> irrespective of any subsequently expressed preferences. Honestly, silver
> was a a bad idea but grey will be fine.
> 
> Jesper? I think the ball is in your court!

Thank you all for your contributions to this discussion!

I have read through all suggestions and there are several examples to suggest that a label is the right way to go, so I'll stick to that. As for naming, these are a few of the arguments that both support my initial idea, and seem to have support in the discussion:

"The point of this tag is to emphasise that the bug is costly in developer time while it remains present i.e. that it is a priority to fix this."
"From my exp long labels tend not to be used and no, JIRA suggestions do not help. I'll be happy to see a positive short label."

A label like "urgent" or "fix-urgent" would satisfy these aspects, but after some mulling over this I concluded that these are too generic and could be placed on any P1 bug. I wanted to capture the developer/maintainer aspect as well, not just that a bug is critical to fix. So comments like:

"Rather than make it specific to 'dev' or 'developers', perhaps..."
... "This suggests labels that include the token “maintainer.”"
"...this thread started with a desire to draw attention to pain (rather than opportunity)"

make me think that the best suggestion so far is maintainer-pain.

I have updated the filter and the bugs that were already labeled:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/issues/?filter=35335

If this is acceptable I'll update and close JDK-8211042.

Thanks,
/Jesper



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