[development] Issue priority

[larry at garfieldtech.com]

I believe this to be a good change and agree with it.  However, normally 
such changes should be discussed in the relevant issue queue before 
being made.  A note to this list telling people about the discussion 
early on is a good courtesy.

--Larry Garfield

On 1/11/11 5:59 AM, Steven Jones wrote:
> Hello Drupal developers,
>
> With automated testing, Drupal 7 has had the policy that a failing
> test would be a sufficient condition for the related issue to be
> marked as 'critical'. This was according to the handbook page that
> describes the meaning of the issue priorities:
> http://drupal.org/node/45111
>
> However, this was not true. Drupal 7 was released with several tests
> that failed, but only in the secondary testing environments notably:
> PostgreSQL and SQLite on Linux. They passed in the primary testing
> environment of MySQL + Linux.
> I think that this is fair, but a failing test should still be given a
> higher priority that other issues, so I've updated the aforementioned
> handbook page so that failing tests in the secondary environments are
> 'Major' issues.
>
> I've basically changed this because it makes sense to me, and because
> changes to the handbook are really easy to revert. Was this the right
> change to make?
>
> Regards
> Steven Jones
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