Re: GOP-PROP 8: issue priorities (probable decision)

[Keith OHara]

Graham Percival <graham <at> percival-music.ca> writes:

> 
> We will make a “Type-Critical”; a new stable release will only
> occur if there are 0 type-Critical issues.
> 
[...]
> it also attracts the attention of potential
> contributors, so we should avoid having any glaring problems which
> would stop somebody from contributing and turn them away – we do
> not want to put our “stamp of approval” on something which might
> cost us potential contributors.
> 
[...]
>     * anything which stops contributors from helping out 

Trevor Daniels <t.daniels <at> treda.co.uk> writes:

> I agree this is important, but I don't see why it
> should prevent a new release per se.

Issue 1809 is an interesting test of this policy.  `make test` sometimes 
crashes 
for some programmers, making it very hard for them to contribute, but it 
crashes 
in the Guile garbage collection, so we might be powerless to resolve the issue.

Probably this will stay critical until we
 fix it (by some miracle)
 work around it
 assign blame, and push the bug report, upstream, or
 give up