[development] {Short issue queues need care - 4} critical issues on the rise again!

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Augustin (Beginner) wrote:
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> (Queue #2) DRUPAL-4-7 critical issues:
> http://drupal.org/project/issues?projects=3060&versions=11551,11252,10634,10412,10302,10273,10238,10195,9902,9842,9753,9728,10696&priorities=1&states=1,8,13,14,2
> 18/06/2006 : 31 (19) issues.
> 25/06/2006 : 12 (8) issues.
> 02/07/2006 : 7 (5) issues. 
> 07/08/2006 : 19 (13) issues only!
> Hmmm.... What happened? 4.7 is supposed to be stable!

Everybody can mark an issue as critical. I just went through and won't 
fixed or downgraded most of them. Now there is only one left and one 
could even argue whether that one is critical as it probably only 
affects a tiny number of sites.

> (Queue #5) DRUPAL-4-7 Patch Needs Review bugs:
> http://drupal.org/project/issues?projects=3060&versions=11551,11252,10634,10412,10302,10273,10238,10195,9902,9842,9753,9728,10696&categories=bug&states=8
> 18/06/2006 : 17 (5) issues.
> 25/06/2006 : 16 (7) issues.
> 02/07/2006 : 21 (8) issues. 
> 07/08/2006 : 15 (11) issues only.
> Make sure to note if the bug has been fixed in HEAD already: it would be silly 
> to have a fix in 4.7, to see the bug reappear when 4.8/5.0 comes out.

I am waiting for help here. We just released 4.7.3 this week, but I 
think we could do another maintenance release later this year.

Cheers,
	Gerhard