Hi,

for quite a while now I noticed that for some bug reports it's
difficult to find the right severity. On the one hand, these bugs are
usually so annoying that it "makes the package in question unusable or
mostly so" because the user is crying out loud in pain when
encountering the issue over and over again. But on the other hand it's
usually just "a problem which doesn't affect the package's usefulness,
and is presumably trivial to fix".

So I suggest to introduce a new bug report severity "annoying" which
is placed somewhere around "normal", but is one of the
"release-critical" severities.

Any bug with that severity and at least three "me too" or "+1"
postings is allowed to be fixed with a zero-day NMU.

Additionally I suggest a new tag for bug reports named "popcorn": It's
similar to the "security" tag, where all bugs tagged as "security" automatically take the security team into Cc. All bugs tagged with
"popcorn" are automatically carbon-copied to the debian-curiosa
mailing list.

SCNR, Axel
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On Sat, 03 Jun 2017, Axel Beckert wrote:

for quite a while now I noticed that for some bug reports it's
difficult to find the right severity.

You had me thinking I was reading a bug report to bugs.debian.org for a
while.

So I suggest to introduce a new bug report severity "annoying" which
is placed somewhere around "normal", but is one of the
"release-critical" severities.

Or maybe this should be a separate annoyance axis for bugs, where we
could have annoyance levels like "meh" "splinter" "paper cut" "paper cut
with lemon". The bike shedding on these levels could keep us occupied
for months!

Additionally I suggest a new tag for bug reports named "popcorn": It's similar to the "security" tag, where all bugs tagged as "security" automatically take the security team into Cc. All bugs tagged with
"popcorn" are automatically carbon-copied to the debian-curiosa
mailing list.

The UTF-8 single-letter tag can be 🍿. We just need better font support
for it.

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I'd sign up in a hot second for any cellular company whose motto was:
"We're less horrible than a root canal with a cold chisel."
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