Comment 12 for bug 314432

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Graham Binns (gmb) wrote : Re: [Bug 314432] Re: It's impossible to see all the bugs that affect a BugTarget if some bugs are targeted to one or more series and the Master task is closed

2009/2/25 furicle:
> If you don't have time to fix it, fine, but that doesn't change the fact
> it should have been fixed!  Don't revise history to make things look
> good.   Too many high priority fixes not being done indicates a problem
> that needs to be resolved in itself.  Masking it by down playing
> important bugs is not appropriate.

Except that the bug history
(https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/314432/+activity) shows
that the importance has been changed, so any accusations of
revisionism are spurious at best.

That we have so many High importance bugs that we haven't had chance
to fix is a sign of two things:

1. We don't have enough developers to tackle them all
and
2. We've been prioritising too many things as High.

In this case I bumped the bug up to High because that was the
importance of one of its duplicates. In hindsight, though, I agree
with Bjorn, it should have stayed as Medium, where Medium means 'it
would be nice to fix this in [whatever milestone it gets targeted to]
but if it slips the cycle it's not the end of the world.' High, by
contrast, means "It's important that this is fixed in $cycle; there
should be no reason for it to slip."