Re: bugs, bugs, bugs!

[James Olin Oden <joden malachi lee k12 nc us>]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Jack Bowling wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 03:27:28PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Jack Bowling (jbinpg shaw ca) said: 
> > > > Bugs may be moved from one list to the other at any time, or
> > > > deescalated completely. The chances of an enhancement requests
> > > > landing on either of these lists is fairly low.
> > > 
> > > Let me get this straight:
> > > - bugs will be triaged and possibly escalated whereas RFEs will not
> > > 
> > > Does this mean that RFEs simply sit there until they fall off the
> > > bottom?
> > 
> > No, it's just that at this stage in the release, bugs have higher
> > priorities than most RFEs. When you're tracking issues that you
> > want to fix to ship a release, that's mainly bugs as opposed to
> > enhancements.
> 
> OK, I don't want to be overly argumentative here, but if the releases
> are now short-cycle, just when will there be enough time to sweep the
> bugs away and get to the RFEs?
>
As soon as you start creating the patch (-;

Cheers...james 
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