Re: [ 00/19] 3.10.1-stable review

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> You are confusing the words "real" and "critical" perhaps.  I, and other
>
> A typical classification of bugs might be
>         critical: mission critical, no workaround, must be fixed prior to
>                 customer release
>         severe (high): related to core functionality, must fix, but not
>                 necessarily in first release.
>         moderate (medium): Bugs that do not affect any critical user
>                 functionality; typically has workaround
>         minor (low): Bugs that do not interfere with core functionality
>                 and are just annoyances that may or may not ever be fixed
>         cosmetic: misspellings
>
> Such classifications are widely used in the industry. The term "affecting users"
> might apply to all of those, and even a cosmetic bug is "real".

And typically there's a distinction between severity (how bad is it), and
priority (how soon it should be fixed), wich are not always linearly correlated.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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