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[higgins-dev] RE: Proposal - Higgins bug-fix criteria
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Makes sense to me.
If there are no objections I think we should add this policy here:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Higgins_Committers_and_Contributors
Brian wrote:
>
> Hi All - as a follow up from an action item I had from last weeks Higgins
> call, below is a proposed set of bug criteria we could use as a guide to
> determine whether bug-fixes will go into a Higgins bug-fix release (e.g.
> 1.0.X) or whether it be rolled into a future major (e.g. X.0) or
> minor/point (e.g. 1.X) release. I looked around the Eclipse site at other
> projects, but did not find any other example critieria to compare to - but
> I may have missed some things. Please let me know if you are aware of
> other Eclipse project criteria we could compare to.
>
> Please review the below prosed criteria and offer comments:
>
> - Higgins patch releases (e.g. 1.0.X number scheme) would include
> exclusively bug fixes (e.g. no new features/enhancements) for the
> following type of bug severity:
> a) bugs in any of the Higgins platform components that cause a crash of
> the overall Higgins system or Higgins based application.
> b) bugs that cause a loss of any persistent data.
> c) bugs that cause a severe security breach where sensitive end user data
> can be exposed to the outside world or accessed by unauthorized users.
> d) bugs that cause a "major" feature to not function and there is no
> workaround available to accomplish the same task.
> e) bugs that cause a "major" business impact such as loss of revenue or
> customers.
>
> For all other bugs fixes of lesser severity than those described above,
> they will be included as part of major or minor (point) Higgins releases
> and not necessarily included as part of a special bug fix release. By way
> of example, the bug fixes included in the major or minor (point) releases
> would include such items as:
> - bugs that cause an aspect of a feature to not work properly.
> - bugs are that are cosmetic in nature, misspellings in dialogs, annoying
> to users, etc.
>
> regards...Brian
>
> Brian Walker
> VP of Engineering
> Parity Communications Inc
> cell: 781-801-0254
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