[sf-perl] Bug management / time management
Andy Lester
andy at petdance.com
Wed May 9 15:11:30 PDT 2007
On May 9, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Steve Fink wrote:
> One thing I'm surprised nobody has brought up is the distinction
> between severity and priority.
Severity can help drive priority, but it's not the only determinant.
A bug might cause your Apache to crash, but only once a year on New
Years Eve. It's a severe bug, but might not be a high priority.
You might have another bug that errors out during a data load when it
finds a malformed data field. No data is harmed, and it's just an
annoyance, but it happens every other day and it takes a programmer
half an hour to find the bad data and start the data load process
again. Not a severe bug, but probably would be a high priority.
That's why I talk about the costs of fixing the problem vs. the costs
of having it still be there. THAT'S where priority should derive from.
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