2008/3/8, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx>: > Here's a little secret..setting a severity higher as the reporter > doesn't mean a maintainer will agree that your issue is of significant > severity to be bumped up in the priority list. Don't get your > feathers ruffled if noone responds any faster if you set the severity > to high. It's not a crasher or dataloss issue, so don't expect anyone > to put this sort of issue ahead of things like that. I personally > would consider setting this to a high severity as an abuse of bugzilla > reporting, and if you did it to a bug against one of my packages I'd > pretty much instantly make a point of remembering that I need to > re-calibrate any high severity reports from you as low severity... but > that's just me. it was just a _question_ calm down. > > There is a desktop list..specifically for discussion of desktop issues > that require discussion. > I think you jumped the gun a little bit by calling for a vote before > making the effort to discuss this on the desktop-list. Sorry, didn't realize. And i don't have ALL the fedora lists in my gmail to mail to.. gmails space is limited you know ;) but i believe i can send mails to those lists without subscribing right? > > Calling for votes like this before an appropriate discussion in the > appropriate location (desktop-list in this case, if the maintainer > doesn't respond in a timely manner..give it a week).. reeks of an > effort to abuse governance structures to force the introduction of pet > features. And I have a big problem with that, and I make absolutely no > excuses for coming down hard on people who do it... because it needs > to be done to discourage a tidal wave of other people from doing it > for their pet features and bogging down structures like fesco with > wasting time on this sort of stuff. I already agreed on that all. no need to repeat yourself. You where clear the first time. > > > > -jef Mark -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
