[Bug other/23281] Miscategorization of quality-of-implementation reports

["dberlin at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>]

------- Additional Comments From dberlin at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-08-08 03:00 -------
(In reply to comment #0)
> 
> Consequently I'm filing this DR against the gcc DR reporting machinery itself,
> rather than against the compiler in particular. There needs to be categories for
> QOI defects of varying severity;

No.
Speaking as the bugzilla person, i'm not adding categories for QOI issues,
because almost everything that isn't a strict bug is a QOI issue already.
Diagnostic issues should be filed against the approriate frontend component, or
middle-end/backend (in a few cases).

I am also not going to add 57 different severities, because it wouldn't do
anything for people trying to fix bugs.  Read the details of what the severities
show (click the linked word severity), and you will see that most diagnostic
issues do indeed fall under enhancement.

People subjectively view the severity of an issue differently, which is why we
have people go through and evaluate it using the objective criteria in the
management page.

> either that, or complaints about diagnostics
> and other QOI ussues should not by policy be filed as "enhancement requests",
> and forgotten.

If they are forgotten, it is not because they are marked enhancement requests as
opposed to minor or normal.
You are mixing up severity and priority.
Severity is basically an objective measure.
Priority is a subjective measure, and theoretically used by developers to
prioritize which bugs to work on.
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