[Qgis-user] Re: [Qgis-developer] bugs priority

Agustin Lobo alobolistas at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 03:18:03 EDT 2009


Congratulations!
I proposed the same long ago and got a negative answer:

Tim Sutton wrote:
>  Hi
>
>  On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 19:34 +0100, Agustin *Lobo* wrote:
.../...

> > BTW, priority "minor: *annoyance* or enhancement"
> > should not be split in two different categories? I mean that an 
enhancement
> > could not be of minor priority, and certainly
> > not similar to a minor *annoyance*.
>
>
>  Historically we had many more priority levels but the problem is then
>  people dont know how to choose between them and the data contained in
>  that field essentially becomes meaningless. In essence an enhancement or
>  *annoyance* priority should be used for cases where the functionality of
>  QGIS isn't critically impaired (e.g. crashing / corrupting data /
>  showing incorrect results) but could be improved in some way. I believe
>  that is a good fit for this ticket.
>

Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Paolo Cavallini ha scritto:
>   
>> I suggest changing the priority:
>> minor: annoyance or enhancement
>> to
>> minor: annoyance
>> The current situation is ambiguous: a reporter is lead to think that an
>> enhancement is to be classified always as minor, even when it's an
>> important one.
>>     
>
> Done - thanks Tim for allowing me to do so.
> I would also like to change the component list: the current situation is
> sometimes ambiguous. The ideal would be to have a classification system
> both user friendly (easy to decide which category the bug belongs to)
> and developer friendly (easy to check just the bugs in their respective
> areas of interest).
> A few possible changes:
> - recombine "Plugins" and Python" into "C++ plugins" and "Python plugins"
> - combine Translations and Internationalisation
> - combine Graphics, Symbology and Marker Symbols
> - drop SPIT
> - include MapServer export into Python plugins
>
> The current category list is:
>
>  	Build/Install  	  	
> 	Data Provider 	 	
> 	Digitising 	 	
> 	Documentation and Help 	 	
> 	Graphics 	 	
> 	GRASS 	 	
> 	GUI 	 	
> 	Internationalisation 	
> 	MapCanvas 	
> 	Map Legend 	
> 	MapServer export 	
> 	Marker Symbols 	
> 	OGR Layer support 	
> 	Plugins 	
> 	Printing 	
> 	Projection Support 	
> 	Project Loading / Saving 	
> 	Python 	
> 	Rasters 	
> 	SPIT 	
> 	Symbology 	
> 	Translations 	
> 	Vectors 	
> 	WMS
>
> Comments and other suggestions welcome. It would be great if some
> developer would accept to become owner of one or more category.
> Furthermore, I'm going to set some more default reports for specific
> purposes (eg OSX bugs, etc. - again, suggestions welcome).
> All the best.
>   

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