[2174] in Release_Engineering
Severity levels of bug reports
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Feb 14 18:03:42 1990
From: epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 18:03:07 -0500
To: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I thought you would like to see these:
From X11R4:
standard naming conventions for xbugs severity levels:
very high catastrophic server failure
high catastrophic client failure (crash/data loss)
medium high critical bug, no workaround
medium critical bug, workaround supplied
low non-critical bug
very low aesthetic opinion
enhancement requests for change in function
From OSF:
Severity Level:
Incompatibility -- represents a problem which resulted from inability
to install the software on the machine.
Fatal -- represents a problem which resulted in a software crash or
required reboot of the software.
Critical -- represents a problem which resulted in software malfunction
or a feature failure and has no work-around.
Severe -- represents a problem which resulted in software functionality
limitation but had alternative work-around.
Minor -- represents a cosmetic type problem.
Enhancement -- represents a request for enhancement of the software.
