Re: [higgins-dev] RE: Proposal - Higgins bug-fix criteria

[brian walker <bwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI - I posted this bug-fix criteria on the Higgins wiki on the  
following location:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Higgins_Committers_and_Contributors#Higgins_Bug-Fix_Release_Criteria

We can update this further based on community feedback.

regards....Brian

On Apr 4, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Paul Trevithick wrote:

> 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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Brian Walker
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VP of Engineering
Parity Communications Inc
cell: 781-801-0254